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A Journal for Jordan Review: Crying Macho in a 9/11 World

Bouncing between multiple timelines before, during, and after the US’s “War on Terror," Denzel Washington’s A Journal for Jordan is a film that unfolds rather ...

New to Streaming: The Matrix Resurrections, Benedetta, C’mon C’mon, and More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week's selections below and past r...

NYC Weekend Watch: It’s a Wonderful Life and Nights of Cabiria

Fun fact: after nearly eight years compiling these lists, a recent COVID surge has made the weekend of 12/24/21 our shortest Weekend Watch ever. We accept no a...

Licorice Pizza Editor Andy Jurgensen on Collaborating with Paul Thomas Anderson, Deleted Scenes, and Keeping the Momentum

Having edited Paul Thomas Anderson's Junun, Anima, and his HAIM and Radiohead music videos, as well as working on the editing team for Inherent Vice and Phanto...

The Best Cinematography of 2021

"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark...

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...

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

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

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

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

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

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

Interviews

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

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

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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