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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...

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...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

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

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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