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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Trailer Sets Sequel for Summer’s Best Blockbuster

If it feels like 28 Years Later just came out, that's because the film released on June 20 and today is September 3. But time waits for no man (especially when...

13 Films to See in September

If one peruses our 50-title fall movie preview, there shouldn't be too many surprises for narrowing down what to see in September. But with our most-anticipate...

Riefenstahl Review: A Portrait of the Artist as a Nazi Collaborator

It is fascinating what the human mind will allow. Riefenstahl, a documentary directed by Andres Veiel about the life of Leni Riefenstahl, explores the rati...

Trailer for El Pampero Cine’s Venice and NYFF Premiere Pin de Fartie Turns Samuel Beckett Upside-Down

Fall-festival season invariably crowds-out some of its finer offerings. For all the sturm und drang surrounding a studio's middling and formulaic awards hopefu...

Trailer for Mike Figgis’ MEGADOC Goes Behind the Tumultuous Creation of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

Few recent films scratch an itch like MEGADOC. Whatever the cinematic value of Mike Figgis' documentary––and accounting for cheap-looking title cards with obvi...

Venice Review: François Ozon’s The Stranger Finally Gives Albert Camus’ Novel Its Cinematic Due

Nobel laureate Albert Camus is one of the most consequential thinkers and writers in the French language, having created absurdist characters and worlds th...

Pynchon, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Postmodernism on Film

Paul Thomas Anderson is taking another strike at Thomas Pynchon in One Battle After Another, a modern-day reworking of the reclusive author's 1990 novel Vinela...

10 Must-See Short Films at TIFF 2025

Comprising 48 titles from 28 countries, this year’s Short Cuts program at the Toronto International Film Festival doesn’t represent any sort of significant cha...

Venice Review: The Wizard of Kremlin Proves an Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian

In April 2022, two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italian author and political writer Giuliano da Empoli published a fictionalized account of Vladi...

Venice Review: Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada is a Stupefying, Time-Slipping Ghost Story

The films of Mark Jenkin ooze a hypnotic, seasick sensibility; to watch them is to be lulled by their restless jumps through time and space, their ability ...

News

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Jessica Chastain Begins a Dangerous Affair in First Trailer for Michel Franco’s Dreams

Reviews

Is This Thing On? Review: Bradley Cooper’s Gentle Film About Marital Strife

Marty Supreme Review: Timothée Chalamet Reaches a New Pinnacle in Josh Safdie’s Propulsive Drama

Cover-Up Review: The Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Features

The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2026: Part Two

The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2026: Part One

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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