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Bodies Bodies Bodies Review: A Self-Aware Parody of Vapid Lives

Nine years into its existence, A24—the once-indie production and distribution label behind modern greats like Under the Skin (2013), Moonlight (2016), and Uncu...

GAIFF Review: Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest is a Quiet Film of Loud Ideas

The best word to describe Unrest is "clever." It isn't on the level of the artisans and thinkers it lovingly portrays—all the graphers (geo, carto, photo) and ...

Fantasia Review: Inu-oh Presents an Anachronistic Rock Opera to Breathe New Life into Ancient History

Director Masaaki Yuasa and screenwriter Akiko Nogi's adaptation of Hideo Furukawa's novel The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters finishes with a couple scr...

Fantasia Review: Missing is a Crime-Thriller That Flips the Father-Daughter Dynamic

Santoshi Harada (Jirô Satô) has a plan. It concerns a three-million-yen reward for helping capture the infamous serial killer known as "No-Name" (Hiroya Shimiz...

Fantasia Review: Country Gold Captures a Generational Clash with Absurdist Segues

The cost of fame sits in the living room wondering aloud whether dad will be home for Christmas. Why these two young boys' voices have been deepened to sound l...

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio to Reunite Again for The Wager

Only a few days after learning the highly anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon will likely not see a release this year, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio...

New to Streaming: Benediction, Beba, Los conductos, Derek Jarman, and 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...

Thandiwe Newton Fights Back in First Trailer for Neo-Western Thriller God’s Country

Of the many directorial debuts premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, one of the most impressive was Julian Higgins' neo-western thriller God'...

The Princess Trailer Examines Princess Diana’s Life Solely Through Archival Footage

If one was off-put by the over-the-top theatricality of last year's Spencer, a new documentary exploring the life of Princess Diana will be more up your alley....

NYC Weekend Watch: New York Underground, Femme Fatale, Contempt & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center As Three Colors: Blue returns, "New York, 1962–1964: Underground ...

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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