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The Immaculate Room Review: Emile Hirsch and Kate Bosworth Get Pushed to Their Breaking Point

On its surface, The Immaculate Room is a contest. A game. If you and your romantic partner can spend fifty days in a stark white room with nothing but a bed, m...

Get Away If You Can Review: A Relationship is Tested in Rocky Aquatic Thriller

Some people deserve a second chance. Few deserve a third. Especially when we're talking about having a modicum of human decency for the person you say you love...

Trailer for Ricky D’Ambrose’s The Cathedral Conjures an American Family

Few premieres from this last year left an impression like Ricky D'Ambrose's The Cathedral, one of the best films at this year's Sundance and ND/NF. An alternat...

Jessica Hausner Begins Shooting Club Zero Starring Mia Wasikowska and Sidse Babett Knudsen

Usually taking a handful of years to develop her projects, Jessica Hausner has now finally embarked on her follow-up to 2019's Little Joe. The Austrian directo...

Orphan: First Kill Review: An Inconsequential, Wonky Prequel

Screenwriters Alex Mace and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick gave their character Leena Klammer, aka Esther Albright, a complete back story at the end of Jaume ...

Spin Me Round Review: A Comedy Perfectly Suited for Alison Brie’s Talents

There are a number of reasons to recommend Spin Me Round, a winning comedy about the manager of an Olive Garden-style restaurant who gets chosen to attend a tr...

Locarno Review: Arnold Is a Model Student Delicately Balances Irreverence and Good Nature

One of the more unlikely films to emerge from this year’s Locarno is the Thai debut Arnold Is a Model Student. In aesthetic, it resembles one of those well-hee...

New to Streaming: Thief, Elvis, I Love My Dad, Poser & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

NYC Weekend Watch: Alain Resnais, Intimate Epics, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Licorice Pizza on 70mm & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film Forum To mark the great Alain Resnias' centennial, a massive retrospective starts w...

Locarno Review: Astrakan is a Gripping, Impressionist Rendering of the Raw Precariousness of Youth

Astrakhan fur is unique: dark, beautiful, and stripped exclusively from newborn lambs, even ones killed in their mother's womb. (Stella McCarthy once said it's...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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