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Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation Trailer: Cannes, TIFF, and ND/NF Selection Arrives This Month

A selection at Cannes Director’s Fortnight, Toronto International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, and Beyond Fest, Youssef Chebbi's supernatural noir A...

Locarno Review: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is Another Exhilarating Film-Collage by Radu Jude

“Rossellini’s films,” Jacques Rivette wrote in a letter to Cahiers du Cinéma dated 1955, “have more and more obviously become amateur films––home movies.” The ...

Bitten Exclusive Trailer: Giallo Thriller Premieres at Locarno Film Festival

Bringing some of the most adventurous filmmaking from around the world to Switzerland, the Locarno Film Festival is now running through next weekend. One of th...

Meg 2: The Trench Review: Even Jason Statham Can’t Save Ben Wheatley’s Timid Shark Thriller

The summer shark movie should be silly. It should know exactly what it is: a B-movie with a bigger-than-expected budget, a bankable star, and unlimited scenes ...

Exclusive: Escape to 2023 Rockaway Film Festival Featuring Fantasia, John Wilson, A Still Small Voice & More

In a city where you can discover a film festival every weekend of the year, perhaps the most unique of such offerings is located in Rockaway, Queens. Taking pl...

NYC Weekend Watch: Rio Bravo Encore, Jackie Brown, John Carpenter on 70mm & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaThe 35mm print of Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo we presented last weekend has an encor...

Claire Simon on Capturing the Female Body and What Sets Her Apart From Frederick Wiseman

A renowned filmmaker in French cinema for her social realism across many storytelling modes, Claire Simon has crafted documentaries (such as depicting the admi...

Posterized August 2023: Passages, Love Life, Our Body & More

A lot of smaller films are coming out this month to help fill the void left by titles that members of the AMPTP have recently pushed back indefinitely–...

New to Streaming: 50 Years of Hip-Hop, A Compassionate Spy, Only Lovers Left Alive & 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...

A Compassionate Spy Review: Steve James Crafts a Slippery Examination of Noble Betrayal

The latest film from acclaimed documentarian Steve James, A Compassionate Spy, comes with a fascinating subject: the spy who leaked nuclear information from th...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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