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Sleep with Your Eyes Open Review: The Migrant Condition Vividly Captured

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Berlinale coverage. Sleep with Your Eyes Open opens in theaters on September 5, 2025. Tucked ...

Realm of Satan Review: A Vivid Invitation into a World of Fantasies

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Sundance coverage. Realm of Satan is now avaiable digitally. Made in collaboration with the C...

Venice Review: Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante Crafts a Frenzied, Flimsy Adventure for Oscar Isaac and Martin Scorsese

“There is no reason why a kid from a family of gangsters couldn’t be the reincarnation of Dante Alighieri,” reads Julian Schnabel’s director’s statement on his...

Paul Thomas Anderson Selects Five Films to Watch Ahead of One Battle After Another as Tickets Go on Sale

We're now just a few weeks away from the main event of the fall: the release of Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated One Battle After Another. The directo...

Venice Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is an Anthology of Late Style

Father Mother Sister Brother offers three movies for the price of one. The first is set on a frosty lakeside in the home of a man (Tom Waits) who's visited by ...

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Trailer Sets Sequel for Summer’s Best Blockbuster

If it feels like 28 Years Later just came out, that's because the film released on June 20 and today is September 3. But time waits for no man (especially when...

13 Films to See in September

If one peruses our 50-title fall movie preview, there shouldn't be too many surprises for narrowing down what to see in September. But with our most-anticipate...

Riefenstahl Review: A Portrait of the Artist as a Nazi Collaborator

It is fascinating what the human mind will allow. Riefenstahl, a documentary directed by Andres Veiel about the life of Leni Riefenstahl, explores the rati...

Trailer for El Pampero Cine’s Venice and NYFF Premiere Pin de Fartie Turns Samuel Beckett Upside-Down

Fall-festival season invariably crowds-out some of its finer offerings. For all the sturm und drang surrounding a studio's middling and formulaic awards hopefu...

Trailer for Mike Figgis’ MEGADOC Goes Behind the Tumultuous Creation of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

Few recent films scratch an itch like MEGADOC. Whatever the cinematic value of Mike Figgis' documentary––and accounting for cheap-looking title cards with obvi...

News

Exclusive Palestine 36 Poster and Clip: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Tells an Epic Tale of Resistance

Netflix Buys Warner Bros. for $82 Billion

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Trailers

Jean-Pierre Léaud Goes West In Exclusive Trailer for Luc Moullet’s A Girl Is a Gun

My Father’s Shadow Trailer: U.K.’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens This February

The President’s Cake Trailer: Iraq’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens This February

Reviews

The Chronology of Water Review: Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness

La Grazia Review: Paolo Sorrentino Struggles to Match Toni Servillo’s Talents

WTO/99 Review: A Stark Reminder of Our American Police State

Features

Posterized December 2025: Resurrection, No Other Choice, The Plague & More

New to Streaming: Jay Kelly, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Stranger Eyes, The Family McMullen & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Safe & More

Interviews

Reflection in a Dead Diamond Directors on James Bond, Satoshi Kon, and Crafting a Cinematic Orgasm

Edward Burns on The Family McMullen, His Underseen Films, and Getting Tom Petty to Score His Second Movie

Sinners Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw on Pulling Off the Film’s Most Difficult Shots and Christopher Nolan’s Advice

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

Emulsion Ep. 18 – Carlo Chatrian on the Tokyo International Film Festival and Future of Cinema Culture

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