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Fall Review: A Psychologically Reductive Single-Location Thriller

It's been a year since Dan Connor (Mason Gooding) fell to his death while rock climbing with his wife Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and her best friend Hunter ...

Ethan Coen Sets Margaret Qualley & Geraldine Viswanathan for Lesbian Road Trip Comedy

Update: Beanie Feldstein has joined the film, Deadline reports. See the original below. Following Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth last year, marking the ...

60th New York Film Festival Unveils Main Slate

Kicking off on September 30th for its 60th edition, the New York Film Festival have now unveiled the 32 films in its Main Slate section. Featuring an exciting ...

U.S. Trailer for Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner Triangle of Sadness Brings Satire to the High Seas

Marking their third consecutive Palme d'Or winner, NEON picked up Ruben Östlund's The Square follow-up Triangle of Sadness and will do the same October roll-ou...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 480 – Prey (with DezBaa’)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by DezBaa' to discuss Dan Trachte...

Emergency Declaration Review: Song Kang-ho Leads a Suspenseful Aviation Thriller

As described at the start of Jae-rim Han's disaster film in the sky, everything is supposed to stop the moment a pilot initiates an Emergency Declaration. It a...

Exclusive Trailer for Hukkle Resurrects a Modern Classic

There's lesser-seen and then there's Hukkle. György Pálfi's bleakly amusing feature accrued various levels of cachet among the cinephile scene(s) in the 20 yea...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Michael Mann Returns to Heat, Long Live Cronenberg, Exploring Fire Walk With Me & More

Summer is a time for light reading. Well, in theory. If you are a hardcore film lover it’s also a time for deep dives into complicated classics like Twin Peaks...

Locarno Review: Human Flowers of Flesh is an Entrancing Journey Through Film and Sea

Early into Helena Wittmann’s 2017 feature debut, Drift, a character recounts a Papua New Guinean tale of the world’s creation. Back when the planet was all wat...

Locarno Review: Alexander Sokurov’s Fairytale Imagines a Surreal, Staid Purgatorial Journey

All through Fairytale (aka Skazka), characters recite the opening of the Divine Comedy and Dante’s preamble to his plunge into hell. But the black-and-white wo...

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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