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The Duke Review: Jim Broadbent Charms in Crime Caper with Heart

It's a wild story of a British "Robin Hood" stealing from the government in 1961 to hopefully (and earnestly) compensate taxpayers who better deserved the fund...

Virus :32 Review: Zombie Thriller Adds New Wrinkle to Well-Worn Genre

An unknown virus has spread through Montevideo, causing a zombie-like apocalypse. No one knows what it is or where it came from, but signs of aggression leadin...

Trailer for Paul Schrader-Scripted There Are No Saints Promises Long-Delayed Thriller

One can guess, fairly or not, why there's some huge gap between a film's production and its release, but in the case of There Are No Saints—which assembled its...

First Trailer for Shin Ultraman Brings Kaiju Mayhem

While those stateside are getting served up the latest product from the Marvel assembly line as their sole blockbuster offering to kick off the summer (all res...

Pedro Almodóvar to Direct Western Short Film

Following last year's Oscar-nominated Parallel Mothers, the next full-length film from Pedro Almodóvar will be his feature English-language debut, an adaptatio...

Ruben Östlund Reveals His Next Film Will Take Place Entirely on a Plane

Following the brilliant Force Majeure and the Palme d'Or-winning The Square, Swedish director Ruben Östlund is returning to Cannes Film Festival with The Trian...

Navalny Trailer Examines Putin’s Attempt to Assassinate His Nemesis

One of the most riveting, essential documentaries at Sundance Film Festival was a late, mid-fest addition, perhaps due to fear that Putin's thugs may take down...

Mira Nair on Mississippi Masala’s Enduring Impact, Body Language, and That Phone Call Scene

After being lost in the tendrils of rights issues for many years, Mira Nair’s 1991 masterpiece Mississippi Masala is finally being brought back to audiences wi...

Jane Schoenbrun on the Power of Slow Cinema and the Loneliness of the Internet in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

In the midst of writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair it becomes easy to forget we're watching a film, not a swirl of the next ...

Mickey Rourke Joins Roman Polanski’s The Palace, Which Has Begun Production

It's been nearly a year since we learned Roman Polanski was planning The Palace, a drama co-written by Jerzy Skolimowski and set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a lu...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

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

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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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