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Exclusive Restoration Trailer for James Blue’s Landmark Cannes Winner The Olive Trees of Justice

The only French production shot in Algeria during the Algerian War and the first American film to win the Critic's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, James Blu...

First Trailer for Cow Finds Andrea Arnold Capturing Bovine Life

We'll have to hand it to Kelly Reichardt for first kicking off the Old MacDonald cinematic universe as Lamb, Pig, Wolf, and Cow all premiered this year. The la...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 456 – Benedetta

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr discuss Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta now in theaters and on ...

The Matrix Resurrections Review: Lana Wachowski’s Grand Romance

Kindly note: though efforts were made to skirt plot, certain of The Matrix Resurrections' first 25-or-so minutes are discussed herein. The Matrix Resurrecti...

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future Takes Place in a World Absent of Physical Pain

We are mere days away from being in the year of a new David Cronenberg movie. With filming having wrapped in Greece on Crimes of the Future––his sci-fi drama s...

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Includes Les Vampires, Sterling Hayden, Sundance & More

With fears our winter travel will need a, let's say, reconsideration, the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming could hardly come at a better moment. High on...

The Most Overlooked Films of 2021

In a year marked by a recovering box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of types of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute? W...

The Whaler Boy Exclusive Trailer: Venice Winner Captures Coming of Age on the Bering Strait

The winner of the Venice Days Director’s Award at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, writer-director Philipp Yuryev's immersive coming-of-age drama The Whaler Boy ...

First Trailer for Robert Eggers’ The Northman Introduces a Viking Epic

Following up his break-out horror hit The Witch and his black-and-white buddy comedy of sorts, The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers is returning in 2022 with his bigg...

Nightmare Alley Review: Guillermo del Toro Brings a Dreamlike Sheen to Noir Retelling

Of all the oddball flourishes across Guillermo del Toro’s filmography, it’s perhaps most surreal that he has taken this long to run away and join the circus. I...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Trailers

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

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

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

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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