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Bottoms Red Band Trailer: Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott Reunite for Riotous Comedy

Following their break-out hit Shiva Baby, Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott quickly amassed the resources for their follow-up, Bottoms. Also starring Ayo Edebir...

Shin Kamen Rider Review: Bedazzled by Bugmen, Japan’s Great Pop Auteur Burrows Deeper into Fandom Pastiche

Fatally, perhaps, I went into Shin Kamen Rider as a Hideaki Anno fan first and a Kamen Rider fan… not so much. I knew about it, of course: the iconography of t...

Jia Zhang-ke’s Next Narrative Feature is We Shall Be All, a Project Two Decades in the Making

In the five years since Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhang-ke has directed one documentary, Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue, but we've heard many rumors of an...

Lars von Trier’s The Idiots Causes Chaos with 4K Restoration Trailer

The Idiots is something like a holy grail among Lars von Trier's corpus, long out-of-print and legendary (even among his provocations) for its comic treatment ...

First Teaser for Coup de Chance Finds Woody Allen Sans Subtitles

Update: Ahead of its correctly guessed Venice debut, an English-subtitled trailer for Coup de Chance has arrived. Find it below with the original story. It'...

Blue Jean Director Georgia Oakley on Kelly Reichardt’s Simplicity and the Everyday Erosion of LGBTQ+ Acceptance

One of the year's most accomplished directorial debuts, Georgia Oakley’s deeply felt, grounded drama Blue Jean is set in 1988 England amidst Margaret Thatcher’...

Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Will Feature Four Stories With Actors Playing Multiple Roles

Update: We spoke with cinematographer Robert Yeoman, who shared new details on Wes Anderson's next two features. Read here. Next week, Wes Anderson's Astero...

Cannes Review: The Old Oak Finds Ken Loach Bidding Farewell with a Rallying Cry

In The Old Oak, an English man and a Syrian woman become unlikely friends on one side of a simmering culture war. It's the latest from Ken Loach and, if report...

Cannes Review: Terrestrial Verses Finds Bureaucratic Comedy and Tragedy in Modern Iran

Iranian filmmaking’s reliance on formal restrictions and secrecy are given new variations in Terrestrial Verses, co-directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami,...

John Carpenter Has Directed a New TV Series from His Couch and Teases The Thing Sequel

Hardly anyone expected John Carpenter to get back in the director's chair and just as many have accused him of being overambitious in recent years. Which makes...

News

The Criterion Channel’s February Programming Features Stunts, Yearning, Black History, and the Oslo Trilogy

Berlinale 2026 Competition Lineup Includes Angela Shanelec, Alain Gomis, Karim Aïnouz, Lance Hammer & More

The Criterion Collection’s April Lineup Features Point Blank, Monty Python, and John Singleton on 4K

Trailers

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Spins a Feudal Mystery In First Teaser for Kokurojo

Michael Almereyda’s Nadja Rises from the Grave In Trailer for New Restoration

A NYC-Set Gem is Restored in Exclusive Trailer for Henry Jaglom’s Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Reviews

All You Need Is Kill Review: Time-Loop Anime is a Visual Treat That Embraces Videogame Structure

Sound of Falling Review: A Pyschosexual Fever Dream of Epic Scope

A Useful Ghost Review: A Peculiar, Humorous Paranormal Tale

Features

2026 Sundance Film Festival Preview: The Must-See Films at the Final Year in Park City

NYC Weekend Watch: Cockfighter, Last Days, Kevin Jerome Everson & More

New to Streaming: Rebuilding, The Rip, Licorice Pizza, Twinless & More

Interviews

“You’re Leaning Into the Ugliness”: Michael Bauman on Shooting One Battle After Another for Paul Thomas Anderson

“How Do I Keep Leonardo DiCaprio Safe?”: Breaking Down the Stunts of One Battle After Another

“I’m Not Seeing America Doing the Best Films”: Rodrigo Teixeira on Supporting Brian De Palma, James Gray, and Contemporary World Cinema

Podcasts

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

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