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All My Friends Hate Me Review: A Psyche Unravels in Pitch-Black Comedy

Pete (Tom Stourton) hasn't seen his university mates in years. Ten years to be exact. It happens. Life happens. We reach adulthood, mature, and set goals for o...

The Adam Project Review: The Netflix Algorithm Spews Out Hollow, Formless Sci-Fi Adventure

The Adam Project, the latest big-budget Netflix release you likely haven’t heard of until now, opens with a bit of text explaining that “Time travel exists. Yo...

Offseason Review: Mickey Keating Crafts an Effective Tale of Suspense and Uncertainty

When your dementia-riddled mother starts screaming about nightmares following her and demons crawling out from the water, it doesn't matter how lucid she appea...

First Trailer for Pleasure Takes an Odyssey Through the Adult Film Industry

Premiering at last year's Sundance Film Festival, Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure––which follows an aspiring porn star's odyssey through the adult film industry in LA...

Anaïs in Love Trailer: Delight Cannes Selection Examines Modern Romance

One of the most delightful films I've seen thus far in this early year is Anaïs in Love, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's Cannes selection which was picked up by M...

The Seed Review: Cosmic Horror Comedy Leaves Much to Be Desired

Childhood friends Charlotte (Chelsea Edge), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur), and Deidre (Lucy Martin) never get to hang out anymore. Adulthood has a tendency of kee...

First Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood Looks to the Stars

After quite a mid-aughts with Before Midnight, Boyhood, and Everybody Wants Some!!, Richard Linklater has continued at near the same clip, despite less of an e...

Ben Affleck & Ana de Armas Play Dangerous Games in Full Trailer for Adrian Lyne’s Deep Water

With a release next week, the powers at be at Disney, 20th Century, and Hulu finally decided it was time to release the official trailer for Adrian Lyne's long...

Cow Trailer: Andrea Arnold Heads to the Farm in Acclaimed Documentary

Following up her road trip epic American Honey, Andrea Arnold turned to something with a far smaller scale. Cow, which arrives in the U.S. on April 8 in theate...

The Batman Review: Robert Pattinson’s Detective Dark Knight Navigates a Moody, Riveting Procedural

Over the 80 years of his comic book, televised, and cinematic existence, Batman has always grappled with his secretive dual identity. Bruce Wayne hobnobs and t...

News

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

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

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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