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IFFMH Review: Georgia’s Oscar Entry Brighton 4th is a Touching Tragicomedy

In Brighton 4th, the Georgian diaspora of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach (an area known colloquially as “Little Odessa” for its largely East European and Russian co...

The Novice Review: Isabelle Fuhrman Goes Through the Psychological Wringer in Intense Drama

There's a difference between being the best and being the hardest worker. If you're the best, you don't always need to work. It's natural. Alex Dall (Isabelle ...

The Best Documentaries of 2021

The state of surveillance, intimate music celebrations, Helen Keller's socialist ethos, refugee tales, examining the scars of abuse in the Catholic Church, and...

Nicolas Cage Gets Meta in First Trailer for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

After a major year featuring one of the best roles of his career in Pig and also one of his wildest with Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland, Nicolas Cage i...

Italian Studies Trailer: Vanessa Kirby is Adrift in New York

Ping-ponging between major blockbusters like the Mission: Impossible and Fast & Furious franchises and indie dramas such as Pieces of a Woman and The World...

Paolo Sorrentino & Filippo Scotti on Federico Fellini, Diego Maradona, and the Therapeutic Journey of The Hand of God

In The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino tells an intimate story about growing up in Naples, Italy. The turbulent coming-of-age film, marking the director's most p...

Watch Luca Guadagnino’s New 43-Minute Short Film for Zara Starring John C. Reilly, Alex Wolff & More

It's become a holiday tradition almost as old as Christmas itself for a major brand to secure some top filmmaking talent for their latest ad campaign timed to ...

Michelle Yeoh Enters the Multiverse in First Trailer for Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once

After their one-of-a-kind, fart-propelled odyssey Swiss Army Man, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert briefly went their separate ways as the latter directed the ...

You Mean Everything to Me Review: Morgan Saylor’s Strong Performance Holds Up This Toxic Relationship Drama

Romance takes a predatory turn in You Mean Everything to Me, a film that explores the pattern by which a DJ named Nathan (Ben Rosenfield) begins to grip a vice...

New Year Review: A Party Unfurls with Hard Truths and Interesting Ideas

It's New Year's Eve: Ben (Timothy V. Murphy) and Kat's (Elisha Renee Sutton) last night in Los Angeles before heading to New York. He's spearheading the move w...

News

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

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

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

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

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

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

“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

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

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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