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Sundance Review: Passages is a Radiantly Sexual Exploration of the Thorniness of Love

Taking the Scorsese wisdom of “more than 90% of directing a picture is the right casting” to heart, Ira Sachs’ radiantly sexual three-hander Passages couldn’t ...

Sundance Review: Cat Person Loses Nuance in Misguided Expansion of the Viral Short Story

The talk of the internet in late 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker story about a date gone horribly awry lit a short-lived fire of discourse surrounding gen...

Sundance Review: Other People’s Children is Rooted in an Affecting Reality

Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, the French drama Other People’s Children has a simple plot linked with complex ideas. Following Rachel (Virginie Efira), a 40-ye...

Sundance Review: The Tuba Thieves Reframes Deafness in Meditative, Convention-Defying Ways

A film that rewards patience, The Tuba Thieves, despite its title, is not a quirky heist picture but rather a meditation on the presence and absence of sound f...

Sundance Review: The Pod Generation is a Sharp, Futuristic Relationship Satire

A sharp relationship satire that proves the more things change, the more they stay the same, Sophie Barthes' The Pod Generation imagines a world of, to borrow ...

Sundance Review: To Live and Die and Live Captures a New Detroit with Old Detroit’s Problems

A film as convoluted as its title, To Live and Die and Live is a poetic exploration of a new Detroit facing the same problems as the old one. Rust Belt cities ...

Sundance Review: Flora and Son is Another Winsome Musical from John Carney

The career of Once and Sing Street director John Carney is a curious one, reiterating the same theme in each of his most notable movies: the power of music to ...

Sundance Review: Landscape with Invisible Hand Juggles Many Ideas with Little Wisdom

For the last seven decades, aliens have been observing humanity, waiting for the right moment to touch down. When they finally do, after the world’s best milit...

Sundance Review: The Deepest Breath Plummets to Obsessive Depths of Freediving

From the very beginning of The Deepest Breath, you know exactly what kind of documentary you’re in for. In the back of a car, director Laura McGann aims her ca...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 495 – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (with Maria Truglio)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Maria Truglio to discuss Guill...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

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

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Trailers

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Reviews

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Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Features

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Interviews

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Podcasts

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