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East of Wall Review: An Ordinary Tale Featuring Extraordinary Characters

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. East of Wall opens in theaters on August 15. The degree of difficulty in m...

Americana Review: A Cover Album of B-Movie Greatest Hits

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2023 SXSW coverage. Americana opens in theaters on August 15. Sometimes it can be fun to watch a s...

Marty Supreme Trailer: Timothée Chalamet Dreams Big in Josh Safdie’s Ping Pong Epic

Six years since Uncut Gems, Josh and Benny Safdie have forged separate paths—both are set to release major new films from A24 this fall. After Benny Safdie's T...

“I Will Never Get Away with This”: Olivier Assayas on Making Reality Fiction with Suspended Time and Premiering The Wizard of the Kremlin

Whether it's a tough marketplace, debuting at a crowded festival, or the fairly established fact that most people don't want to see films pertaining to COVID (...

Plainclothes Trailer: Acclaimed Queer Thriller Arrives This September

Premiering earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival where it picked up the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for its ensemble, Carmen Emmi's feature debut Pl...

Peter Hujar’s Day Trailer: Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall Converse in Ira Sachs’ Acclaimed Drama

Passages and Love Is Strange director Ira Sachs returned to the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to debut Peter Hujar’s Day, a drama starring Ben Whish...

NYFF63 Adds the Return of Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Scorsese Doc, Two by Richard Linklater & More

After their Main Slate and Currents lineups have been unveiled, the 63rd New York Film Festival has now revealed its Spotlight selections. Highlights include t...

Dan Sallitt to Direct The Unspeakable Act Sequel What Can’t Be Mentioned

To know Dan Sallitt's cinema is to only wish for more. After 2019's Fourteen, his rough rate of one feature every seven years will hold in rather surprising, w...

Locarno Review: Mare’s Nest Radiates an Inordinate, Contagious Curiosity for the Unknown

Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the excitement for that which...

63rd New York Film Festival Sets Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere as Spotlight Gala

After their Main Slate and Currents lineups have been unveiled, the 63rd New York Film Festival has now revealed its Spotlight Gala selection: Scott Cooper’s S...

News

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Exclusive Palestine 36 Poster and Clip: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Tells an Epic Tale of Resistance

Trailers

Disclosure Day Trailer: Steven Spielberg Returns to Extraterrestrial Exploration

A Major Restoration Arrives in Exclusive Trailer for Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly

Exclusive Trailer for Bertrand Bonello-Scored Europe’s New Faces Covers a Troubled Continent

Reviews

Avatar: Fire and Ash Review: James Cameron Gets His Hands Dirty

Ella McCay Review: A Living Legend’s Final Word on Hope and Forgiveness

Goodbye June Review: Kate Winslet’s Directing Debut is a Well-Meaning Misfire

Features

The Best Undistributed Films of 2025

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2025

The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2025

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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