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Sundance Review: Speak No Evil is a Terrifying, Unforgettable, Deeply Unsettling Danish Thriller

Speak No Evil is terrifying, shocking, and deeply, deeply unsettling. There’s no getting around the upset factor. Audiences who catch this Sundance entry from ...

Sundance Review: Nanny Brings Horror to the Immigrant Story with Atmospheric, Disquieting Tension

With Nanny, Nikyatu Jusu presents a more haunting depiction of the American Dream. Her feature debut nods to Ousmane Sembène’s seminal Black Girl while distill...

Kim Min-hee Will Take a Quiet Life in Trailer for Hong Sang-soo’s The Novelist’s Film

It was mere weeks ago we placed a possible Hong Sang-soo film on our 2022 most-anticipated list. If nothing was announced, anything could be expected—a year wi...

John Cameron Mitchell on the Inventive Process of Making Shortbus and Normalizing Healthy Depictions of Sex on Screen

For those of us around in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was a wild time for American cinema. You wouldn’t know it by looking at what’s screening at the mu...

Franz Rogowski Wants to Know What Love Is in U.S. Trailer for Great Freedom

More than a surprise from last year's festival circuit—it sometimes seems anything that's not a big-ticket title but proves itself counts as "a surprise—Sebast...

Sundance Review: Living Cements Bill Nighy’s Legacy as a Living Legend

Let us then use this space to celebrate Bill Nighy. The Surrey-born performer made a name for himself in the National Theater in the '80s & '90s before exp...

Sundance Review: All That Breathes Takes a Powerful Cinematic Approach to Capture Climate Change

There’s no scarcity of documentaries on climate change; at the most recent Cannes Film Festival there was even a new program strand entitled “Cinema for the Cl...

Sundance Review: Brian and Charles is an Offbeat Comedy About a Sweet-Natured Friendship

Extended from the award-winning short of the same name, Jim Archer’s offbeat comedy Brian and Charles is borne of love and friendship. A sweet tale about a lon...

Sundance Review: Utama Asks for Death with Dignity in the Bolivian Highlands

Utama is about the effects of climate change and its particular impact on South America's indigenous communities, no doubt, but its other urgent subject depict...

Bruno Dumont Starts Shooting Sci-Fi Feature The Empire with Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp & Adèle Haenel

Following up one of last year's best, most overlooked films, the Lea Seydoux-led France, Bruno Dumont has already embarked on shooting his next feature and not...

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

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

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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