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Dìdi (弟弟) Review: Snapshots of Growing Up in an Early Social Media Age

While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on AIM, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an "in". Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low...

Exclusive Trailer for Shelly Yo’s Award-Winning Directorial Debut Smoking Tigers

Premiering at last year's Tribeca Festival where it picked up Best Screenplay and Best Performance, Shelly Yo's directorial debut Smoking Tigers is a nuanced c...

Callie Hernandez Follows Strange Paths In Exclusive Trailer for Courtney Stephens’ Locarno Premiere Invention

In March I had the fortune to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fictio...

Fantasia Review: The G Finds Dale Dickey Bringing the Rage

Ann Hunter (Dale Dickey) loves her husband. She's simply never been the caregiver type. That's what drew him to her in the first place––leaving his wife to be ...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Claude Schmitz’s The Other Laurens Plunges Into Seedy Neo-Noir

Likely the world doesn't have enough neon-tinged, French-Belgian neo-noirs, making welcome the arrival of The Other Laurens. Claude Schmitz's 2023 Directors' F...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is 215 Minutes, Presented in 70mm Across 26 Reels

Six years after Vox Lux, Brady Corbet is finally returning with his next feature The Brutalist. Led by Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raf...

Only the River Flows Review: A Small Town Neo-Noir that Balances Empathy and Melancholy

Wei Shujun's detective noir Only the River Flows (based on a story of the same name by Chinese author Yu Hua) is set in a small town along a river in China's J...

NYC Weekend Watch: Mexican Popular Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville, Playtime on 70mm, Bresson & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA retrospective of Mexican popular cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s...

New To Streaming: La Práctica, Kill, Starve Acre, Nothing Compares & 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...

Gentle Creatures: Robert Bresson and Mani Kaul Screens at BAM on August 5

It's my distinct pleasure to announce Gentle Creatures: Robert Bresson and Mani Kaul, a Dostoevsky double-header comprising adaptations of the short story "A G...

News

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2024 Includes Misericordia, Evil Does Not Exist, and Trap

Trailer for Palestine’s Oscar Entry From Ground Zero + Exclusive Poster Giveaway

MUBI’s December 2024 Lineup Includes Dahomey, Bird, The People’s Joker & More

Trailers

Sujo Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry From Identifying Features Team Arrives Next Week

Jacques Demy’s Masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Gets New Trailer for 4K Restoration

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

Reviews

Thessaloniki Review: Holy Electricity is a Directorial Debut That Finds Substance in Unusual Places

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Dirty Work, Shelley Duvall, Robert Frank & More

Interviews

Gaucho Gaucho Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw on Mythology, Compositions, and Community

Rodrigo Prieto on His Directorial Debut, Martin Scorsese’s Snubs, and Taylor Swift’s Feature Debut

Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis on Animating Animals, Allegories, and Cinema vs. Videogames

Podcasts

The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

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