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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...

A Filmmaker Contends with Hypocrisy in U.S. Trailer for Nadav Lapid’s Cannes Winner Ahed’s Knee

Following up the riveting character study Synonyms, Israeli director Nadav Lapid quickly got his next project off the ground during the pandemic, Ahed's Knee. ...

Renate Reinsve on the Existential Experience of Becoming The Worst Person in the World

The “star is born” performance is spoken of often but only truly comes around once in a blue moon. It’s not something you can predict, but when it happens you ...

Exclusive Trailer for Film Forum’s Toshirō Mifune Retrospective Celebrates an Acting Legend

“I am a person rarely impressed by actors… but in the case of Mifune I was completely overwhelmed. The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to g...

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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