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Rotterdam Review: Gagaland is a Boisterous, Screen-Infested Précis of Our Very Online Times

If a film could immortalize our screen-infested age, what would it look like? Restlessly playful and joyfully cacophonous, YuHan Teng’s Gagaland offers an eloq...

Sundance Review: The Stroll is a Lively Look at the NYC History of Trans Sex Workers

A frank celebration of a pre-Giuliani New York, Kristen Lovell and Zachary Drucker's The Stroll explores a unique period from the inside. Lovell––an actress, a...

Sundance Review: Rotting in the Sun Relishes in Manufactured Mundanity

From its hilarious use of social media montages to the oversized white Telfar bag that seems to almost swallow one of its characters whole, Sebastián Silva’s R...

Sundance Review: Cassandro Subverts the Biopic and Gives Gael García Bernal a Career High

Although it takes less than half an hour to drive from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso, the cities might as well be located on different planets. Mexico's Ciudad Juár...

Sundance Review: Spiritual and Physical Worlds Intertwine in Sorcery

Christopher Murray's Sorcery asks timeless questions about the meaning of justice in a world where the oppressed are tried in courts set up by their oppressors...

Sundance Review: Drift Sets Cynthia Erivo in a Hollow, Generalized Refugee Tale

Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s English-language debut follows a West African refugee, Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo), who washes up on a Greek island homeless...

Sundance Review: L’immensità is a Trans Coming-of-Age Tale Told with Melancholy and Profound Love

In films like Volver, Parallel Mothers, Everybody Knows, and now L’immensità, Penélope Cruz has cornered the market on playing mother figures that are both lar...

Sight and Sound Unveils Expanded List of the 250 Greatest Films of All-Time

After last month kicked off with Sight and Sound unveiling of their once-in-a-decade greatest films of all-time poll, detailing the 100 films that made the cut...

Sundance Review: King Coal is a Soulful Requiem for the Middle-Class Dream in Appalachia

A poetic ode to the blue ridges of Central Appalachia, King Coal often evokes an IMAX educational film in its scope, space, and presence. The film explores the...

Sundance Review: Shortcomings is Good at Being Grating

Without Justin Hong-Kee Min, Shortcomings would be sour to watch. His character, Ben, floats through Randall Park’s directorial debut with a mountain of unlika...

News

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

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

Trailers

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

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

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

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

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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