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Hustle Review: Adam Sandler Brings Low Wattage to Middling Basketball Drama

One, perhaps foolishly, comes to a new Adam Sandler picture in the post-Uncut Gems phase of his career with at least some expectations. And one would think his...

Cannes Review: Tori and Lokita is Another Compassionate Morality Play from the Dardenne Brothers

Tori and Lokita, the latest from the eerily consistent Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, pulls you in opposite directions when assessing it. It is as consummately ...

Fire Island Review: Andrew Ahn’s Joyful Queer Retelling of Pride and Prejudice

Over the last few years Andrew Ahn has cemented himself as one of the most promising talents in American independent cinema. His first feature, the underrated ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Montgomery Clift, Miami Vice, Ozu x2 & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film Forum As new 35mm print of Brooke Adams-starrer Vengeance Is Mine screens...

Terence Davies on Benediction, the Poetry of Cinema, and Life’s Regrets

His second consecutive drama about an iconic poet with a life of inner turmoil, Terence Davies' Benediction affords the filmmaker canvas to explore queerness m...

Cannes Review: Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun is a Vibrant Debut Brimming with Inner Life

At around the halfway point of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere a young girl and her distant father jumped into a swimming pool. The characters' relationship was frau...

Cannes Review: Alice Winocour’s Bataclan-Inspired Revoir Paris is a Heartfelt if Formulaic Drama

It takes a few seconds for Mia’s life to unravel in Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris, then a whole lifetime to stitch it back together. Up until a fateful Novembe...

Exclusive Trailer for Alice Diop’s We Presents a Panoramic Portrait of Contemporary Paris

One of the major documentary filmmakers to emerge this past decade is the Paris-born Alice Diop, subject of a recent Film at Lincoln Center retrospective and w...

Exclusive Trailer for Lynne Sachs’ Swerve Brings Poetry to Elmhurst, Queens

Following her feature documentary Film About a Father Who, director Lynne Sachs has set her sights on a market and playground in Elmhurst, Queens with her new ...

Fire of Love Trailer: A Volcanologist Couple Faces Awe-Inspiring Danger

One of the most acclaimed films to premiere at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year is Sara Dosa's Fire of Love, which finds Miranda July narrating the lif...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

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

Trailers

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

Features

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Interviews

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

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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