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Hamburg Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a Heartfelt Drama That Tries Hard to Please

There’s something about childhood memories that’s inherently sweet, hopeful—how we saw and remembered the world before we learned about loss and disappointment...

NYFF Review: Hit the Road Captures Laughter and Heartbreak at the Iranian Border

There’s not much exposition in Hit the Road. In fact it takes most of Panah Panahi’s remarkable directorial debut, about a family traveling across northwestern...

BIFF Review: Rage is a Stylish Yet Incomplete Tale of Revisiting the Past

Everyone collided one fateful day in 1993. Beatriz (Liseth Delgado) and Lizeth (Karen Osorio) left school and cheered up sad little Mateo (Sebastián Carreño) b...

Tilda Swinton Joins Michael Fassbender in David Fincher’s The Killer

Though Mank did not do us a world of goodwill, David Fincher is David Fincher, and David Fincher in airport-thriller mode is more fun than most things. Hence o...

Julia Ducournau on the Transformative Arc of Titane and Empathetic Values of Dark Humor

With her sophomore feature, French writer, director, and provocateur Julia Ducournau has secured her place in film history and proven herself a serious talent....

Jerry Schatzberg on Battling Studios, Working with Actors, and Finding the Realism in The Panic in Needle Park

Jerry Schatzberg is among the great American filmmakers who changed the landscape in the 1970s, but his name is one that has taken some time to get the recogni...

BFI London Review: The Harder They Fall is a Greatest Hits Package of Western Tropes

Few films announce their mission statement within their opening frames to quite the extent of The Harder They Fall. An introductory title card informs the audi...

New to Streaming: Possession, Old, Universal Horror, El Planeta & 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...

BIFF Review: Landlocked is a Reconciliation Story Made of Authentic Little Moments

Nick's (Dustin Gooch) mother just passed away. One more source of stress to go along with marriage, parenthood, and the reality that a year of not taking a pay...

A Lost Iranian Classic is Marvelously Restored in New Trailer for Chess of the Wind

It's a story deserving its own film: Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Reza Aslani's Chess of the Wind had three public screenings, likely recognized as the remarkabl...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Trailers

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Reviews

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

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

Features

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Interviews

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

Podcasts

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

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

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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