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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...

Here Before Review: Andrea Riseborough Brings Humanity to Psychological Drama

New neighbors can be a source of great anxiety. Maybe they’ll be extremely kind and friendly, coming over to introduce themselves and strike up a friendship th...

Michael Mann’s Ferrari is a Go With Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz & Shailene Woodley

This year is proving a major one for Michael Mann. His Tokyo Vice pilot hits HBO Max on April 7, followed by the rest of the series throughout the month. Augus...

Ryusuke Hamaguchi Shares Top 10 Films of 2021; Eiko Ishibashi Releases Drive My Car Soundtrack with Bonus Tracks

It's rare that our favorite film of the year actually receives love from the Academy, but there's an exception as Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car racked up fo...

Exclusive Trailer for Fern Silva’s Rock Bottom Riser Explores the Hawaiian Landscape with a Cosmic Vision

Lava is on the mind. If one was able to catch the recent Sundance premiere Fire of Love but desired a more formally bold vision of the depths of nature, look n...

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

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

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

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“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

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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