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Aline Review: Unauthorized Céline Dion Biopic is a Beautiful Oddity

In early 2022 a peculiar challenge took over TikTok that, since, has become one of its most emulated trends. Celebrities like Mandy Moore and Michael Bublé, no...

All the Old Knives Review: Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton Find Sparks in Swoony Spy Thriller

All the Old Knives wants you to sweat and swoon in equal measure. Playing in the same tried and true sandbox as some of the great espionage thrillers before it...

As They Made Us Review: Dramedy Offers No Easy Answers in Death, But a Modicum of Peace

One of the best things about As They Made Us, written and directed by Mayim Bialik, is its pronounced lack of judgment. An indie dramedy heavy on the drama, Bi...

Watch Bi Gan’s New Short The Broken Heart of the Sun

Though we continue waiting for Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into Night follow-up—about which we know production begins this year, and about which that's bas...

Denzel Washington & Sarita Choudhury Find Romance in Restoration Trailer for Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala

Arriving in just in time to kick off the hot summer season, Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala is one of the major new restorations of the year, starring Denzel Wa...

Renate Reinsve, Lily-Rose Depp & Hoyeon Jung to Lead Joe Talbot’s The Governess

Following her Best Actress win at Cannes Film Festival last year, we knew great things were destined for Renate Reinsve, but the question of what The Worst Per...

Metal Lords Review: Peter Sollett and D.B. Weiss Capture a Band of Outsiders

There hasn't been a "battle of the bands" since an unfortunate scrotal incident scarred many a teen not expecting nudity a few years back, but the mere mention...

Ambulance Review: Michael Bay Goes Back to the Basics

The Marvel machine may be the most fortuitous development for Michael Bay. Though the director hasn’t dabbled in the world of superheroes—despite a fondness fo...

Minamata Review: Johnny Depp Finds a Role Fitting For His Talents in Photographer Biopic

A lot of things helped make this past Oscars ceremony an infamous affair—the most innocuous being the addition of two online popularity contests seemingly devo...

Watch: Robert Eggers Visits the Witchy Woods in Debut Short Film Hansel & Gretel

We're now just a few weeks away from Robert Eggers' The Northman and while a review embargo prevents full thoughts from being shared, I'm delighted to report t...

News

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

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

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

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

“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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