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Introducing, Selma Blair Review: A Powerful Journey of Self-Acceptance

One can't help being inspired by Selma Blair's transparency on her Multiple Sclerosis. So many people's first impulse would be to hide—especially after having ...

Todd Haynes on The Velvet Undergound, Sound Mixing, and the Comfort of Classic Cinema

It was perhaps predestined Todd Haynes would one day make a film about the Velvet Underground. Predestined since Velvet Goldmine, at least, which—in a time whe...

NYFF Review: Just a Movement Expands Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 Classic La Chinoise

The five college-aged kids in Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise speak like revolutionaries. They discuss violent means of change, necessary evils to alter the curr...

Busan Review: Zhang Yimou’s One Second is a Reverent Ode to the Magic of the Cinematic Experience

Zhang Yimou has one of the more fascinating careers of any director. He became a pioneer figure of contemporary Chinese arthouse cinema in the late 1980s / ear...

A Violent Fantasy Quest Begins in Red Band Trailer for Rotoscoped Animation The Spine of Night

When it comes to painting outside the box, so to speak, this year has been a promising one for animation. While the Pixars and Dreamworks of the world often ge...

Get Ready for Last Night in Soho With Edgar Wright’s 60-Song 1960s Playlist

We're now just a few weeks away from Edgar Wright's second feature of 2021, his psychological thriller Last Night in Soho. As one can imagine, the film has a c...

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...

News

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

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

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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