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The Outfit Review: Mark Rylance Leads an Entertaining, Unassuming Mystery Thriller

The key to a good mystery isn't tricking the audience as much as it is entertaining them. The more you watch from this genre, the less slips past your percepti...

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...

News

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

December on the Criterion Channel Includes Bob Dylan, John Waters, MTV & More

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Film Stage’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

New to Streaming: A Different Man, The Outrun, My Old Ass, Used Cars & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

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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