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Benny Safdie Sets Solo Directing Effort with The Smashing Machine Starring Dwayne Johnson

Who was it who said ‘never tell me the odds’? And was it uttered in some distant galaxy’s asteroid hail, or just the butt of a colonoscopy joke? The great gamb...

The Best Performances of 2023

Our year-end coverage continues with a look at the best performances of 2023. Rather than divide categories into supporting or lead or by gender, we've written...

Out of Darkness Trailer: Stone Age Survival Thriller Arrives in February

Set 45,000 years ago, Andrew Cumming's directorial debut Out of Darkness follows six people searching for a home in a brutally inhospitable landscape, stalked ...

First Trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War Presents a Near-Future, Divided America

After dividing audiences with Men, Alex Garland is back with what looks to be his most ambitious directorial outing yet. Civil War, which follows a divided, ne...

National Film Registry Adds Bamboozled, Terminator 2, 12 Years a Slave & More

Since 1989, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress has been accomplishing the important task of preserving films that “represent important cultu...

Disco Boy Trailer: Franz Rogowski is on the Run From the Past

Coming off one of the best performances of the year in Ira Sachs' Passages, Franz Rogowski will next be seen in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s stylish debut Disco Boy, w...

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Includes James Gray, Ava Gardner, and Cats

Catering directly to my interests, the Criterion Channel's January lineup boasts two of my favorite things: James Gray and cats. In the former case it's his fi...

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two Returns with New Trailer

Since it took Hollywood executives far too long to get their shit together and pay writers and actors what they deserve, a number of major 2023 films were dela...

The 50 Best 2023 Films You Might Have Missed

As the arthouse cinema market continues to regain its footing, the list of what may be considered an overlooked film could be quite vast, depending on one's me...

The Boy and the Heron Cinematographer Atsushi Okui on Analog vs. Digital Animation and 30 Years with Hayao Miyazaki

One of the less public-facing key talents at the most publicly scrutinized animation studio in the world, cinematographer Atsushi Okui joined Studio Ghibli in ...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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