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Fantasia Review: Eco-Feminist Parable Polaris is Mad Max on Ice

In a post-eco-disaster 2144, a young girl (Viva Lee's Sumi) lives as a polar bear cub in the snow. She crawls around with her "mother," growling under the star...

NYC Weekend Watch: Gimme Shelter, LA Onscreen, Batman Returns & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center Gimme Shelter and Happy Together screen Friday and Saturday, resp...

She Said Trailer: Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan Take Down Harvey Weinstein

Five years ago this fall, New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor broke the story of Harvey Weinstein's decades of sexual abuse, a watershed mome...

Mija Trailer Explores the Music Industry with a Poignant Perspective

One of the more affecting films I saw at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was Isabel Castro's debut documentary Mija, which takes a poignant and person...

Patton Oswalt Catfishes His Son in First Trailer for I Love My Dad

Written, directed, and led by James Morosini based on his own experiences, I Love My Dad was a cringe comedy hit at SXSW earlier this year and now it's set to ...

First Trailer for Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s The Silent Twins Tells a Strange True Story

After breaking out with her fantasy horror musical The Lure, Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska helmed her English-language debut with The Silent Twins, a Ca...

Isabelle Fuhrman Returns in First Trailer for Orphan: First Kill

While Jaume Collet-Serra has excelled in providing a genuine Hitchcockian vision to B-movie concepts in the last decade before getting sucked into the Disney m...

KVIFF Review: Corsage Gives Vicky Krieps Her Best Role Since Phantom Thread

In Corsage, Vicky Krieps delivers a performance brimming with salty despondency and inner life. Gasping for breath in the garment from which this film takes it...

First Look at Shia LaBeouf in Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio

Continuing his prolific, run-and-gun style of filmmaking, we reported about a year ago that Abel Ferrara was following his pandemic thriller Zeros and Ones wit...

Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane Gets 4K Restoration, New Trailer

Lodge Kerrigan's Keane has languished on DVD for the better part of 20 years—exactly the environment that makes it the rare modern(ish) film we might call a cu...

News

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

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

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

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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