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Jurassic World: Dominion Review: Tired Franchise is Exhausted of Thrills and Pleasure

“At some point you do plan to have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right?” That quip lobbed at Jurassic Park (the fictional place) creator John Hammond also s...

Steve McQueen, Joseph Kosinski, and John Hillcoat Move Forward With New Features

Following up his five-film anthology Small Axe, Steve McQueen's next narrative feature is Blitz, which will tell the story of Londoners during WWII in 1940 as ...

Julia Garner Lands Madonna Role, Isabelle Huppert Reteams with François Ozon & More

In a major casting coup, The Assistant star Julia Garner has beat out Florence Pugh, Alexa Demie, Odessa Young, and more to be offered the role of Madonna...

Cristian Mungiu on R.M.N. as a Microcosm of the World and Why Cinema Isn’t a Teacher

If Cristian Mungiu isn't the most prolific filmmaker to emerge from Romanian cinema's gilded age, he does tend to cause a stir. Cristi Puiu was first in the do...

Vesper Trailer: Sci-Fi Feature Examines Survival After the Collapse of Earth’s Ecosystem

If Hollywood's sci-fi outings have left one a bit disappointed in terms of a lack of imagination, a more grounded genre outing looks to hit the mark. Lithuania...

First Trailer for Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey Expands the Predator Universe

Six years after breaking out with 10 Cloverfield Lane, director Dan Trachtenberg is back with his next feature, one which hopes to revitalize the Predator fran...

First Look at Cristi Puiu’s Dramatic Comedy MMXX

Following up his stellar, 3.5-hour drama Malmkrog, Romanian director Cristi Puiu has quietly completed production on his next feature. MMXX, a dramatic comedy ...

Exclusive Trailer for BAMcinemaFest 2022 Celebrates the Year’s Best in Indie Filmmaking

For those looking to experience the best that indie filmmaking has to offer, an eclectic NYC festival is now back in full force this month. After a consolidate...

Mia Hansen-Løve on One Fine Morning and Showing a Different Side of Léa Seydoux

For Mia Hansen-Løve, the 2022 Cannes Film Festival marked a few returns. A year on from premiering Bergman Island, Hansen-Løve screened One Fine Morning, the d...

Trailer for David Lynch’s 4K Restoration of Lost Highway is Here to Haunt Your Nightmares

While the brief, unfounded buzz that a new David Lynch film would premiere at Cannes proved to indeed be a pipe dream, this past year has brought the next best...

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

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

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

“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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