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Tribeca Review: B. J. Novak’s Directorial Debut Vengeance is a Smart Comic Thriller

Despite its generic title, B.J. Novak’s feature-directing debut Vengeance is a smart, subversive fish-out-of-water comedy about a stereotypical coastal elite t...

Revealer Review: An Apocalyptic Battle for the Soul Unfolds in a Peep Show Booth

What better setting for a Biblical apocalypse than an XXX novelty shop with peep show booths picketed by religious zealots who, more often than not, protest as...

Tribeca Review: The Drop Falls Flat

Considering comedy is entirely subjective and in the eye of the beholder, I suspect fans of the comedians in Sarah Adina Smith's The Drop––allowed free reign t...

The Criterion Channel Announce July Lineup: Boxing, Noir in Color, Mississippi Masala, and Blake Edwards

The Criterion Channel's July lineup is an across-the-board display of strengths, ranging as it does from very specific programming cues to actor retrospectives...

Tribeca Review: Aisha is a Minor But Impactful Work of Social Realism

Roger Ebert once said movies are like a machine that generates empathy. Such is the third feature by Frank Berry (Michael Inside, I Used to Live Here). Followi...

Tribeca Review: The Black Phone Exists in an Uncanny Valley Between Realism and the Supernatural

Despite the rich texture of its late-1970s setting—the beginning of the latch-key kid era—Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone fails to transcend its central pre...

6 Films to See at BAMcinemaFest 2022

Kicking off this Thursday is one of the finest annual showcases in indie filmmaking, BAMcinemaFest, taking place at BAM Rose Cinemas. Among both well-curated h...

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Team on Sex Positivity, Sex Work as a Vocation, and Collaborating With Emma Thompson

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande is coming out at the right time. Kind, contained, and funny, this film––written by Katy Brand and directed by Sophie Hyde––serves ...

Sean Durkin, Isabel Sandoval, and Nicole Kidman Set Next Projects

Following up The Nest, director Sean Durkin has set his next feature. The Martha Marcy May Marlene helmer will write and direct Iron Claw for A24, Deadline rep...

NYC Weekend Watch: Dario Argento, Bad Boys II, Dore O. & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center A 20-film Dario Argento retrospective has begun. Roxy Cinema ...

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

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

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

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

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

“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

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

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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