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Sundance Review: Dual Stretches Its Premise to a Melancholic Plateau

Dual, Riley Stearns’ third feature following Faults and The Art of Self-Defense, establishes its endgame within the first five minutes. Opening on a split foot...

Sundance Review: The Cathedral is an Ambitious Recollection of a Fractured Family and Country

What makes the fabric of our upbringing? The memories we’ll reflect on after those years have passed are often not what we may hold onto in a moment filtered a...

Sundance Review: 2nd Chance Examines the Dubious Legacy of the Bullet-Proof Vest Inventor

It’s an eerie image. Richard Davis stands out in a field, wearing a kevlar vest, and points a pistol into his belly. Then he pulls the trigger, skips back a bi...

Sundance Review: Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Passionately Promotes the Female Gaze

Though the different eras of global feminist thought are known as "waves," which implies successive awakenings of liberation and critique, the film world takes...

Sundance Review: Descendant Follows a Community’s Search for Truth and Reconciliation

Over half a century after international slave trade was abolished in the United States, Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could transport a ship of captives fr...

Sundance Review: A Love Song a Bittersweet Ode to Love Lost and Found

There are great faces, and then there is Dale Dickey's face. Simply put, it is in a league of its own. The sole contender may be Wes Studi's. A Love Song, writ...

Sundance Review: Mars One is an Impactful Work of Social Realism Set in Brazil

There’s an entire universe out there, even when it feels like your corner of the world has been turned upside down. Who has not felt like they’ve been roaming ...

Sundance Review: Tantura Remembers a Village, Stolen and Buried

Perhaps the most harrowing thing in Tantura, a striking documentary from Alon Schwarz, is the nervous laughter that slips out of the mouths of old men allegedl...

Sundance Review: We Met in Virtual Reality Examines Digital Connections with Beautiful Sincerity

Joe Hunting has spent the last few years documenting VRChat, a social-virtual-reality platform that allows users to create their own worlds and avatars. His de...

Sundance Review: The Princess Explores the Media Ecosystem That Built the Myth

By design, Ed Perkins’ The Princess keeps a healthy, mediated distance from its subject, the late Princess of Wales. After all, the news is the first draft of ...

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

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

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

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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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