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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...

Rogue Agent Review: Riveting Spy Thriller Plays the Long Con

I'm surprised the studio gives up the game in its marketing materials; Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson's Rogue Agent is built in such a way that allows the ruse...

First Teaser for Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All Takes a Romantic Bite

In just a few weeks we'll get the premiere of Luca Guadagnino's first narrative feature since Suspiria. Bones and All, which stars Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Ru...

Locarno Review: The Adventures of Gigi the Law Blends Procedural and Fairytale to Find Wonders in Small-Town Life

In the heat of late summer, San Michele al Tagliamento is a humid emulsion of corn fields, cypress trees, and silent streets. Sitting along the border between ...

Earth’s Ecosystem Collapses in New Trailer for Vesper

If Hollywood's sci-fi outings have left one a bit disappointed in terms of a lack of imagination, a more grounded genre outing looks to hit the mark. Lithuania...

U.S. Trailer for Senegalese Thriller Saloum Tracks an Elite Group of Mercenaries

One of the most acclaimed films at last year's fall festival circuit, playing at TIFF Midnight Madness, Fantastic Fest, and more, Congolese director Jean Luc H...

Lena Dunham Debuts Second Feature of 2022 in Trailer for Catherine Called Birdy

A good year for Lena Dunham fans, most of all those who crave films about a girl's unusual, tempestuous coming-of-age. With the excellent Sharp Stick (about wh...

News

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

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

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

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

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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