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Fantasia Review: Hell Hole Finds the Adams Family Serving Up a Parasitic Creature Feature

The parasitic creature at the center of The Adams Family's Hell Hole (comprising John Adams and Toby Poser as directors/co-writers/stars, with daughter Lulu jo...

Dìdi (弟弟) Review: Snapshots of Growing Up in an Early Social Media Age

While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on AIM, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an "in". Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low...

Exclusive Trailer for Shelly Yo’s Award-Winning Directorial Debut Smoking Tigers

Premiering at last year's Tribeca Festival where it picked up Best Screenplay and Best Performance, Shelly Yo's directorial debut Smoking Tigers is a nuanced c...

Callie Hernandez Follows Strange Paths In Exclusive Trailer for Courtney Stephens’ Locarno Premiere Invention

In March I had the fortune to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fictio...

Fantasia Review: The G Finds Dale Dickey Bringing the Rage

Ann Hunter (Dale Dickey) loves her husband. She's simply never been the caregiver type. That's what drew him to her in the first place––leaving his wife to be ...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Claude Schmitz’s The Other Laurens Plunges Into Seedy Neo-Noir

Likely the world doesn't have enough neon-tinged, French-Belgian neo-noirs, making welcome the arrival of The Other Laurens. Claude Schmitz's 2023 Directors' F...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is 215 Minutes, Presented in 70mm Across 26 Reels

Six years after Vox Lux, Brady Corbet is finally returning with his next feature The Brutalist. Led by Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raf...

Only the River Flows Review: A Small Town Neo-Noir that Balances Empathy and Melancholy

Wei Shujun's detective noir Only the River Flows (based on a story of the same name by Chinese author Yu Hua) is set in a small town along a river in China's J...

NYC Weekend Watch: Mexican Popular Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville, Playtime on 70mm, Bresson & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA retrospective of Mexican popular cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s...

New To Streaming: La Práctica, Kill, Starve Acre, Nothing Compares & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

News

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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