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Prayers for the Stolen Review: Mexico’s Oscar Entry Brings a Profound Duality to Slice of Life Drama

Everything that happens in the small town at the center of documentarian Tatiana Huezo's fiction debut Prayers for the Stolen runs through the Mexican drug car...

Lair Review: A Half-Baked Horror Thriller

Ben Dollarhyde (Oded Fehr) just murdered his wife and son. There's no refuting it. He admits that his body committed the crime. His mind, however, did not. And...

Drive My Car Trailer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Masterful Haruki Murakami Adaptation Arrives This Month

Following last month's release of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Ryusuke Hamaguchi is capping off an incredible 2021 with the U.S. bow of his masterful Haruki M...

Hive Director Blerta Basholli on the Dichotomy of Pain and Sweetness in Kosovo’s Oscar Entry

Although its delights are effortlessly tasty, the preparation of ajvar is not quite simple. The red pepper “caviar” served in Balkan countries requires the rig...

All is Forgiven Review: Mia Hansen-Løve’s Debut is a Gut-Wrenching Drama

After nearly fifteen years, Mia Hansen-Løve’s feature debut All is Forgiven finally has its theatrical release in the U.S. A tender yet heart-wrenching drama a...

New to Streaming: Robert Mitchum, The Beta Test, All Is Forgiven, Garrett Bradley’s Shorts & 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...

Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe on Making a Goofball Chinatown with The Beta Test

The Beta Test, the newest micro-budget film from independent actor-writer-director Jim Cummings, finds the Emerson College alum teaming up with his friend, cla...

SDAFF Review: A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces is Shengze Zhu’s Open Letter to Wuhan and its Rapid Progress

The river in Shengze Zhu’s fourth feature A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces is not an ordinary river. It’s the longest in Asia and located at the heart of ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Mia Hansen-Løve Selects, India Song, Three by Assayas & More

Metrograph With her sublime debut All is Forgiven now playing, Mia Hansen-Løve has curated a series populated by the likes of Varda, Rohmer, and Edward Yang...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Harvey Keitel

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...

News

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

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

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

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

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

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

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