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Licorice Pizza Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Coming-of-Age Adventure is Funny, Romantic, and Danger-Filled

Paul Thomas Anderson has always been fascinated with pretenders, with people who use their assumed gigs and personas as a shield for their own deep insecuritie...

Where to Stream the Best Films of 2021

As 2021 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our eyes on titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen, so—as we do each...

Cinephile Game Night’s November 2021 Lineup Features Filmspotting

Tune in below! https://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/status/1465878548728713236 We’re excited to announce that Cinephile Game Night will return for our next...

Now Return Us to Normal Review: A Poetic, Personal Road Trip Reflecting on the Unintended Consequences of Wilderness Schools

At the center of Now Return Us to Normal is the desire to understand the trauma of so-called “wilderness schools," remote camps built around the shaky principl...

MUBI Unveils December 2021 Lineup

MUBI is closing the year out on a high note with their December lineup, featuring some of 2021's most acclaimed U.S. releases. Highlights include Tsai Ming...

House of Gucci Review: Ridley Scott Spins a Threadbare Family Saga

Upon sitting down to write about House of Gucci, I thought I’d open with a quote. There had to have been some line, however peripheral, that stuck. That wasn’t...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Analyzing David Fincher, Reminiscing With Spike Lee, the Making of Dune & More

The holiday season is here, and with it comes a whole lot of gift-worthy books, as well as — if you don’t have kids — plenty of time to do some reading. This f...

Doclisboa Review: Factory to the Workers Inspiringly Examines Collective Ownership in Post-Socialist Europe

In the new documentary Factory to the Workers, the men and women of a doggedly socialist metal factory in northern Croatia struggle facing up to the realities ...

The Criterion Channel’s December 2021 Lineup Includes Hitchcock, Johnnie To, The Magnificent Ambersons & More

If 2021 has been a calvacade of bad decisions, dashed hopes, and warning signs for cinema's strength, the Criterion Channel's monthly programming has at least ...

The First Wave Review: Matthew Heineman Captures the Early Days of the COVID-19 Crisis in NYC

I wonder when we'll grow numb to movies about the COVID-19 crisis. Anyone saying they already have is either lying or living a life of privilege wherein the co...

News

The Indie Awards Launch With Nominees Including Free Time, The People’s Joker, and Atikamekw Suns

Lance Oppenheim Will Direct Primetime for A24 and Robert Pattinson; Sydney Sweeney to Play Kim Novak for Colman Domingo’s Scandalous

All 2024 Films Having Awards-Qualifying, One-Week Releases

Trailers

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Porcelain War Trailer: Sundance Winner Captures Ukrainian Artists Fighting for Their Country

September 5 Trailer Explores a Sports Broadcasting Team’s Coverage of the 1972 Hostage Crisis

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

NYFF Review: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a Powerfully Enraging, Surreally Comedic Look at Zambian Tradition

BFI London Review: Charlie McDowell’s The Summer Book is a Clunky Drama Connecting Landscape and Soul

Features

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

“You Cannot Project Your Desire”: Albert Serra on Afternoons of Solitude, Bullfighting, and Kristen Stewart

Podcasts

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

The B-Side – Barbra Streisand (with Chris Feil)

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