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Cinema Sabaya Review: Israel’s Oscar Entry Shows the Communal Power of Filmmaking to Break Barriers

If 2022 was the year of self-reflexive explorations of harnessing cinematic tools to varying means––the likes of Steven Spielberg, James Gray, Alejandro Gonzál...

Chocolat Trailer: Claire Denis’ Debut Returns in a New 4K Restoration

Slowly but surely the earlier work of Claire Denis is getting restorations and re-releases, from Beau Travail to L'intrus to No Fear No Die. While we hope Frid...

Sharper Review: A Nifty, Thrifty Con Caper

The trick to Sharper––a new con picture from director Benjamin Caron––is that it's deceivingly simple. Featuring multiple lead characters, many points of view,...

Linh Tran on Her Slamdance-Winning Debut Waiting for the Light to Change: “We Were Basically Living the Movie While Making It”

“I’m a new filmmaker,” Linh Tran tells me at one point, with an emphasis on the word new, when talking about Waiting for the Light to Change. Born in Vietnam, ...

Sundance Review: Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV is a Sweeping Portrait of a Medium-Challenging Pioneer

“I use technology in order to hate it properly," pioneering video artist and self-identified cultural terrorist Nam June Paik says while explaining his playful...

Sundance Review: The Persian Version is a Complex, Energetic Crowd-Pleaser

Maryam Keshavarz's semi-autobiographical feature The Persian Version is an energetic family comedy chronicling three generations of Iranian women in the US. An...

Hong Sangsoo Loses Focus In Trailer for Berlinale Selection in water

This is the customary sentence noting it can be easy to take Hong Sangsoo for granted. The prolificacy of which should tell us he's as appreciated as ever, and...

Magic Mike’s Last Dance Review: Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum Take a Familiar, Gentle Bow

Repeating the blissfully perfect, pure ode to pleasure that is Magic Mike XXL would be a fool’s errand, so nearly a decade later––with Steven Soderbergh back i...

17-Year-Old Kane Parsons’ Directorial Debut Based on His Viral Series The Backrooms Gets Backing from A24 and James Wan

The YouTube-to-feature-filmmaking pipeline will only become more common in the years to come as young creators who develop their voice on the platform get scou...

With Godland, Hlynur Pálmason and Elliott Crosset Hove Allow Time to Dictate the Creative Process

Hlynur Pálmason’s working methods push against traditional notions of filmmaking in almost every regard. He lives in a remote Icelandic village with his family...

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

The Uprising Trailer: Andrew Garfield Leads a Rebellion for Paul Greengrass

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

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