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After Yang Trailer: Colin Farrell Tries to Rebuild His Family in Kogonada’s Gorgeous Sci-Fi Tale

Following his serenely stunning drama Columbus, video-essayist-turned-director Kogonada headed to the future with After Yang. A gorgeous, moving drama about wh...

Private Desert Review: A Love Story Trapped Under the Oppression of Traditionalism

Writer-director Aly Muritiba said something very interesting about his new film Private Desert in the lead-up to its Venice debut. He spoke about a desire for ...

Sundance Review: Three Minutes — A Lengthening Builds New Art from Near-Extinguished Celluloid

What can we glean from three minutes of film shot in 1938? This is the question driving Three Minutes — A Lengthening, an engaging essay film from director Bia...

Sundance Review: Riotsville, USA is an Archival Indictment of a Police State

Riotsville isn’t just a place. It’s an idea; a fiction written by the enforcers of order to “demonstrate the presence of a superior force.” Riotsville is porta...

Sundance Review: Keke Palmer Can’t Save the Sluggish, Misguided Alice

Alice, the debut feature of writer-director Krystin Ver Linden, has a major pacing problem. Based on true accounts, it concerns Alice (Keke Palmer), a woman en...

Éric Rohmer’s Theater Play Gets Adapted in Exclusive Trailer for Rita Azevedo Gomes’ Berlinale Premiere The Kagelstatt Trio

With Sundance Film Festival now in the rearview, all sights are set on the Berlin International Film Festival when it comes to getting a new batch of the year'...

News

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

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

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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After Yang Trailer: Colin Farrell Tries to Rebuild His Family in Kogonada’s Gorgeous Sci-Fi Tale

Private Desert Review: A Love Story Trapped Under the Oppression of Traditionalism

Sundance Review: Three Minutes — A Lengthening Builds New Art from Near-Extinguished Celluloid

Sundance Review: Riotsville, USA is an Archival Indictment of a Police State

Sundance Review: Keke Palmer Can’t Save the Sluggish, Misguided Alice

Éric Rohmer’s Theater Play Gets Adapted in Exclusive Trailer for Rita Azevedo Gomes’ Berlinale Premiere The Kagelstatt Trio

Riley Stearns on Creating the World of Dual, Capturing Loneliness, and Directing Karen Gillan’s Double Performance

Slamdance Review: Paris is in Harlem Explores the Repeal of NYC’s Cabaret Law with Overdramatic Fictionalization

Slamdance Review: Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater Flips NYC-Set Romance Tropes

The B-Side – In Conversation with Adrien Brody