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jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy Review: The Making and Unraveling of a Cultural Icon

The falsified myth of the overnight success is further solidified in jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, a three-part, nearly five-hour documentary by Coodie & Chi...

NYC Weekend Watch: Jonas Mekas, Mifune-Kurosawa & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center A retrospective of the invaluable Jonas Mekas has begun. Film ...

Berlin Review: Dry Ground Burning is a Fulminating, Engrossing Paean to the Marginalized in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

In the late 1950s newly elected President of Brazil Juscelino Kubitscheck ordered the country’s capital be moved from Rio de Janeiro toward a more central loca...

Berlin Review: Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s Comet is a Hypnotic Ode to the Night Owl

Spotting COVID-era ephemera was novel in the films of 2021—even in some of the best. As early as last February we saw masks being worn, some pointedly below th...

Playground Director Laura Wandel on Cycles of Bullying and Taking a Children’s Point of View

With her forceful feature debut Playground, Laura Wandel takes an intimate, intense look at the intricacies of abuse at school from a child's point of view. Fo...

Berlin Review: Stay Awake Takes a Complex Look at Familial Care and Compromise

Ethan (Wyatt Oleff) doesn't have to say anything when he appears at his brother Derek's (Fin Argus) work unannounced. They've gone through this too many times ...

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom Review: Bhutan’s Oscar Hopeful Appreciates Matters of the Heart

Raised by his grandmother after his parents' deaths, Ugyen (Sherab Dorji) is considered lucky by his friends. He became a teacher and is just one year away fro...

Criterion’s May Lineup Includes Joseph Losey, Double Indemnity 4K & More

A couple of Criterion's May releases are all about encroaching fear, so we won't make you think about the fact that when these arrive 2022 will be in sight of ...

Windfall Trailer: Jason Segel Disrupts Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins’ Vacation

After making a splash with his nifty single-location romantic thriller The One I Love, Charlie McDowell’s follow-up The Discovery came and went quickly. But hi...

35 Armadillos, Singing on the Curbside: An Interview with John Lurie

In 1984 John Lurie had three films at Cannes but couldn’t afford a plane ticket. For a few indelible moments in Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas, as a high-end pimp h...

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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