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SXSW Review: Pretty Problems Explores “Authentic” Experiences for the Super Rich

Directed by SXSW alum Kestrin Pantera (Mother’s Little Helpers), Pretty Problems is yet another indie picture about a floundering 30-something couple stuck in ...

First Trailer for Tokyo Vice Heralds the Return of Michael Mann

It's not a new film, but Tokyo Vice can stand head and shoulders above most else of late, medium be damned, from one indisputable factor: Michael Mann, for who...

Arnaud Desplechin on Adapting Deception and Philip Roth’s Advice

Rarely have I been able to chart my relationship with a film like Arnaud Desplechin's Deception. When we spoke in fall 2015 he told me Philip Roth's slim, dial...

SXSW Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is as Curious a Creation as Cage Himself

As unhinged as its muse, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a curious bit of fan service and perhaps a welcome evolution in the career of Nicolas Cage,...

SXSW Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once is a Rollicking Rollercoaster Ride Through a Pop-Culture Multiverse

A general rule film students learn the first few weeks of their intro class is that a film teaches you how to watch it within the first five minutes. Well, mos...

SXSW Review: I Get Knocked Down Explores Life After Chumbawamba

At this moment, somewhere on planet Earth, a radio is thumping with the unmistakable opening of Chumbawamba’s utterly absurd 1997 smash, “Tubthumping.” Love it...

SXSW Review: Pirates Takes a Funny, Sweet Trip Through London at the Turn of the Millennium

George Lucas’ American Graffiti may not have had the cross-cultural impact of Star Wars, but its structure––the endearingly aimless lives and loves of teenage ...

Watch Alex Ross Perry’s Music Video for Pavement’s Harness Your Hopes

No, this is not a video from the archives. Released as a B-side on their 1999 EP Spit On a Stranger, Pavement's song Harness Your Hopes has had a rebirth as of...

Turning Red Review: Pixar’s Latest Animation Wonderfully Examines the Sacrifices of Happiness

13-year-old Mei (Rosalie Chiang) has always been the perfect child. She respects her parents (Sandra Oh's Ming and Orion Lee's Jin), helps work the family temp...

Vortex Trailer: Gaspar Noé Returns to Devastate You

After exploring sex and drugs with Love and Climax, respectively, Gaspar Noé is here devastate you with a look about the one thing we are all guaranteed to fac...

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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