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NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Lost Highway, Michael Roemer & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaA New Leaf and Ishtar play, the former on 35mm, while a print of The Fifth Eleme...

The Night of the 12th Review: A Commendable, Diet Zodiac Procedural

A dramatization of true events, The Night of the 12th mines a particular subgenre of the crime picture, the “Cold Case” (its own Bush-era CBS procedural). The ...

Cannes Review: Monster is a Thrilling Reminder of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Powers

Few stories are as gratifying as the narrative jigsaw. How to fool the viewer into believing one thing without lying about what happened? It’s difficult enough...

The Thief Collector Review: Retired Teachers Steal $160 Million Painting in Riveting Yet Overstuffed Documentary

The various facets of the art of the heist––from motivation to execution to life on the lam (or in detainment)––make it perennially ripe for high-stakes cinema...

Cannes Review: Amat Escalante Returns With Scattered Noir Lost in the Night

When Rigoberto Duplas, the worrying conceptual artist and antagonist of Amat Escalante's new film, tells Emiliano, our steadfast lead, that the cheap glass in ...

First Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon Moves Beyond the Still

A child conceived when Killers of the Flower Moon's first still debuted––that was May 10, 2021––could now walk, or at least waddle. It's a fine image, unambigu...

The B-Side – Billy Bob Thornton (with Nicholas Gray)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...

Five Veterans Dig Up the Past in First Trailer for Ted Geoghegan’s Post-WWII Thriller Brooklyn 45

One of the highlights from this year's SXSW is arriving next month. Ted Geoghegan's Brooklyn 45, starring Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessend...

The Creator Trailer: John David Washington Battles A.I. in Gareth Edwards’ Sci-Fi Epic

In a tentpole landscape painfully barren of original stories, we've been long-anticipating Gareth Edwards' first original film since his debut Monsters. After ...

Cannes Review: Steve McQueen’s First Documentary Occupied City Forges Disparate Connections with the Horrific Past

New approaches to cinema are few and far between––as rare as a ticket to the lone Killers of the Flower Moon press screening at the 76th Cannes Film Festival––...

News

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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