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Fantasia Review: Chorokbam is a Pitch-Black Macabre Existential Drama

This is not a happy family. Dad (Tae-hoon Lee) works a night security guard shift that makes it so he arrives home as Mom (Min-Kyung Kim) leaves to dry peppers...

Keanu Reeves is on a Warpath in First Trailer for John Wick: Chapter 4

After delivering one of his best performances in last year's fourthquel The Matrix Resurrections, Keanu Reeves is back for another next spring. John Wick: Chap...

New to Streaming: Miklós Jancsó, Mississippi Masala, Men, The Master, 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...

Fantasia Review: Glorious is a Bathroom-Set Horror Comedy of Apocalyptic Proportions

The universe has a favor to ask. Well, it's the universe's would-be destroyer asking on its behalf. After an eternity hidden in the ether watching the life tha...

The Gray Man Review: The Russos Brothers Deliver a Hideous, Dreary Franchise Hopeful

Netflix’s dreary $200 million franchise hopeful The Gray Man deserves at least one compliment: it begins with relative finesse. Recruited out of prison as a ta...

NYC Weekend Watch: Showgirls, Princess Mononoke, Time Bandits & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy Cinema Showgirls has multiple 35mm screenings; Queen of the Damned plays on film th...

KVIFF Review: Small, Slow But Steady Packs a Punch

What drops of cinema are still to be wrung from boxing? The new Japanese drama Small, Slow But Steady is about as calm and modest as its title suggests, but th...

Tom Burke and Ruth Wilson Strike a Volatile Bond in First Trailer for True Things

Premiering at TIFF last year, Harry Wootliff's drama True Things will now arrive this September. The first trailer has landed, featuring the story of Kate (Rut...

My Donkey, My Lover & I Review: Jackass Forever

Taking a more natural interpretation of D. W. Griffith’s phrase by way of Jean-Luc Godard—"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun”—Caroline Vignal’s ...

Alone Together Review: Katie Holmes’ Pandemic Relationship Drama is Tone-Deaf and Trivial

People died, businesses closed, and health and science became politicized to a point of no return. But what about the good that COVID accomplished? What about ...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

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

Trailers

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

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

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

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

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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