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Watch the First Two Clips from Claire Denis’ Stars at Noon

With a Hamaguchi-like approach to 2022, Claire Denis premiered her stellar, small-scale melodrama Both Sides of the Blade at Berlinale and now debuts a higher-...

Idris Elba Faces a Deathly Threat in First Trailer for Baltasar Kormákur’s Beast

From The Shallows to Crawl, the man (or woman, in those cases) vs. beast subgenre of thriller has had a new resurgence. Now, it's Everest and 2 Guns director B...

Cannes Review: Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave is a Formally Dazzling Love Story

“Congratulations… it’s a murder.” A backwards thing to celebrate? Not when you’re a droll insomniac detective who’s only happy (read: not miserable) when you’r...

Cannes Review: Funny Pages is a Darkly Hilarious, Absurdist Comic Book of a Film

The deranged lunatics populating Owen Kline’s absurdist, bleakly hilarious Funny Pages are all somewhat anachronistic; loners who gravitate around old things a...

Cannes Review: Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. Skewers Europe and Late Capitalism

Anyone looking to take the temperature of Cristian Mungiu’s first film in six long years should heed the words of Matthias, his most recent downtrodden protago...

MUBI Unveils June 2022 Lineup

MUBI's U.S. lineup for next month has been unveiled, including some essential recent releases, notably James Vaughan's Friends and Strangers, Radu Muntean's În...

Cannes Review: Moonage Daydream is a Radiant, Psychedelic Voyage Through David Bowie’s Soul

David Bowie’s tranquil voice seeps in over a black screen, waxing poetic philosophy about the infinity and complexity of time. Letters incrementally fade in on...

Cannes Review: Holy Spider Finds Ali Abbasi Reaching for Shock

Ali Abbasi’s Border, an adaptation of a short story by Let the Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist, put its director on the map as one fluent in a dark g...

Dinner in America Review: The Outcasts Get Their Day in Humorous, Heartfelt Comedy

Born from a decision to combine two aughts-era sketches that weren't quite working on their own, filmed in 2018 (stewarded with the help of Danny Leiner, who p...

Ali & Ava U.S. Trailer: Clio Barnard’s Acclaimed Drama Arrives in July

Following The Arbor, The Selfish Giant, and Dark River, British director Clio Barnard’s latest work is once again set in Bradford and this time focuses on a lo...

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

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

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Reviews

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

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

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

“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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