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Bigbug Review: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Returns with a Limp Futuristic Social Satire

Jean-Pierre Jeunet put his stamp across the 1990s and 2000s with a unique blend of zany personality, thoughtful character portraits, and sharp, multi-dimension...

Andrew Dominik Confirms Blonde is NC-17 Version of the Marilyn Monroe Story: “It’s a Demanding Movie”

Update: Variety reports that Netflix won't be bringing any of their films to Cannes, including Blonde. See the original story below. At long last, 2022 look...

NYC Weekend Watch: Catherine Breillat, Toshiro Mifune, Vincent Gallo & More

After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our...

Caleb Landry Jones is Menacing in First Trailer for Justin Kurzel’s Nitram

Winner of Best Actor at Cannes last year, Caleb Landry Jones leads Justin Kurzel's latest drama Nitram, a fictionalization of the lead-up to the real-life deva...

Berlin Review: Nobody’s Hero Makes a Neo-Noir Farce of Modern France

Cinephiles love to quote Roberto Rossellini, after his viewing of Chaplin’s oft-maligned late work A King in New York: "This is the film of a free man." Alain ...

Kimi Review: Zoë Kravitz Reckons with Technology in Steven Soderbergh’s Effective Paranoia Thriller

The double-edged sword of modern technology—the simplification it can offer our lives and its all-consuming pervasiveness—is at the heart of Kimi, Steven Soder...

Inside the 21-Year Spiritual Journey of Capturing Kanye West’s Life & Career

It was destiny for Coodie and Chike to make jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy. The duo directed Ye’s video for “Through the Wire,” but before that Coodie left his car...

The Sky Is Everywhere Review: Josephine Decker Offers an Aesthetically Imaginative, Narratively Banal View of Grief

There’s breathless, relentless energy to the work of Josephine Decker, a trait usually accompanied by a sense of the unexpected, never quite knowing where her ...

Marry Me Review: Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson Form a Charismatic Bond in Honest Rom-Com

It's not often a web comic gets optioned into a film produced by a superstar singer for a Hollywood studio, but that's what happened to Bobby Crosby's 2012 wor...

A Night of Knowing Nothing Review: A Passionate Chronicle of India’s Recent Social Unrest

A Night of Knowing Nothing, the debut of Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia and winner of the Oeil d'or for Best Documentary at last year’s Cannes, cannily fu...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

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

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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