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Venice Review: Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is a Passionate But Sometimes Off-Key Biopic

Bradley Cooper is undoubtedly feeling the Bern. There’s something very endearing about Cooper’s star persona, not least the fact that, of all modern Hollywood ...

Venice Review: Roman Polanski’s The Palace Goes Down Like a Curdled Cocktail

In The Palace, guests of a luxury hotel prepare to celebrate the turn of the millennium. The caviar is tasted. The fireworks are readied. Soon (you guessed it)...

Venice Review: Michael Mann’s Ferrari Finds Religion on the Racetrack

In Modena, everyone is losing––the football club, the women, the Ferraris. It’s the spring of 1957, and ex-racer-turned-entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver)...

Venice Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things is a Dense, Dizzying Showcase for Emma Stone

Bella Baxter––whose organic internal makeup I’ll leave to shocking reveal––was born an adult woman. The furiously beating heart of Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film,...

Venice Review: Hollywoodgate Examines What The U.S. Left in Afghanistan with Darkly Comic Results

If you witnessed the chaos unfold in Kabul airport two years ago, it probably won't come as much of a surprised to learn the US Army left a helicopter or two i...

NYC Weekend Watch: 70mm at the Paris, Paul Vecchiali, The Thin Red Line, ’60s Korea & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Paris TheaterThe Paris reopens with a new Dolby Atmos screen and a 70mm series featuring Pl...

Venice Review: Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a Heartfelt, Formally Audacious Ode to Storytelling

If the recent mushrooming of A.I. recreations and YouTube / TikTok parodies of Wes Anderson’s cinema serve any purpose, it’s to show that his ongoing allure is...

Posterized September 2023: Rotting in the Sun, Fair Play, Perpetrator & More

There are a lot of generic looking poster this month. I guess that's what happens when the big names are all existing IP whether it be Robert McCall, H...

New to Streaming: Astrakan, Perpetrator, Domino, The Last Voyage of the Demeter & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

Venice Review: Luc Besson’s Dogman Never Lives Up to Trashy, Deranged Potential

Whatever one may think of Luc Besson’s oeuvre, his films work best when they live up to their trashy potential. The director’s cinema is littered with all-out ...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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