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Playground Review: Belgium’s Oscar Entry Captures Childhood Duress with Intensity

The camera never leaves young Nora (Maya Vanderbeque) throughout the entirety of Playground. Writer-director Laura Wandel needs us to follow her closely and un...

First Trailer for Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses Draws Blood

Marking his first feature film in a decade, Dario Argento is back this week with the world premiere of Dark Glasses, taking place this Friday at Berlinale. In ...

2022 Oscar Nominations Announced

This year's Oscar nominations have been announced ahead of a ceremony for the 94th edition, taking place on March 27, 2022. Check out the list below, led by Ja...

Sundance Review: The Exiles Brings a Long-Lost Film Project and One Defiant Filmmaker into Focus

What first appears to be an energetic, biographical sketch of NYU Professor and filmmaker Christine Choy becomes a film about her lost project, one that seemin...

Jackass Forever Review: A Once-Ridiculed Franchise Now Offers the Prospect of Joy

Jackass has been in our lives for more than two decades. Since October 2000, when the original show premiered on MTV, Johnny Knoxville and his gaggle of goofba...

Exclusive Trailer for Friends and Strangers Tees Up One of 2022’s Funniest Debuts

One of the final things I latched onto at Grasshopper Film was Friends and Strangers. I'd heard no word before its Rotterdam programming and it caught my atten...

Peter Strickland Gets Cooking in Trailer for Berlin Title Flux Gourmet

It took more than one read of the official synopsis for Flux Gourmet to connect its many parts, and so it goes that a first trailer for Peter Strickland's late...

Full Trailer for jeen-yuhs Captures 20 Years of Kanye West

There’s no denying the artistic genius of Kanye West, and for anyone who had The College Dropout on repeat, the three-part epic jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy will...

Moonfall Review: Roland Emmerich Succumbs to His Worst Tendencies in Forgettable Blockbuster

The spirit of the blockbuster has changed slowly but noticeably since Roland Emmerich’s filmography peaked with Independence Day in 1996. Fortunately for him, ...

David Lynch Will Appear in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans

It's only so often film news gets an audible "WHAT?" from yours truly, but here we are: David Lynch at some point had been cast in The Fabelmans, Steven Spielb...

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

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

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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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