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Berlin Review: Bertrand Bonello’s Coma is an Eclectic, Esoteric Lockdown Study

A contemporary cliché that weakly attempts to diagnose what ails us in modern life is the idea of being addled by technology––of our minds and attention spans ...

Berlin Review: Kamila Andini’s Before, Now & Then is a Well-Mannered Tale of Longing

In Before, Now & Then the social and political upheavals of 1960s Indonesia provide a hardened backbone to what is otherwise a tale of longing and simmerin...

Ana de Armas Lends Ben Affleck a Hand in First Teaser for Adrian Lyne’s Deep Water

For the ideal Valentine's Day treat, our first look at Adrian Lyne's long-awaited erotic thriller Deep Water has arrived. Starring former significant others Be...

Five Underseen Toshiro Mifune Films to Watch at Film Forum’s Retrospective

When an actor appears in many films of a particular director it becomes a sort of short-hand subject to define either's work. Sometimes it feels as if one infl...

Berlin Review: Mis dos voces Examines the Shifting Identities of Immigrants with a Creative Vision

The title of Lina Rodriguez's documentary Mis dos voces says it all. Her three subjects (as well as her) are Latin American immigrants living in Canada with s...

An Otherworldly Force Arrives in First Trailer for Jordan Peele’s Nope

One of the very few original tentpoles coming out of Hollywood this year to look forward to is the latest creation from Jordan Peele. Following the one-two pun...

Berlin Review: Claire Denis’ Both Sides of the Blade Makes for Enigmatic Melodrama

In Both Sides of the Blade a romance breaks down and threatens to break up in a stylish apartment overlooking the sweet Parisian skyline. The director is of co...

Berlin Review: Ulrich Seidl Returns With Bleakly Beautiful Rimini

Anyone seeking a peek into Ulrich Seidl's worldview--perhaps his soul--could do worse than Rimini, his first film since Safari in 2016 and first narrative feat...

Berlin Review: Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet Wines and Dines on Experimental Music

Flux Gourmet is arguably the first instance where Peter Strickland, the British genre specialist who’s always seemed inches away from a real career breakthroug...

Berlin Review: Geographies of Solitude Takes a Sensory Look at an Island of One

Considering the Wikipedia page for Sable Island states a population of zero (minus the six-to-twenty-five rotating personnel team from the Meteorological Servi...

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

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

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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