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NYFF Review: El Gran Movimiento Explores the Crushing Demand for Labor Under Capitalism in Surreal Ways

Magical realism, or even history-fantasy hybrid films, serve the narrative purpose of allowing protagonists to transcend their experiential reality and find so...

New to Streaming: The Many Saints of Newark, The Card Counter, The Guilty & 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...

NYC Weekend Watch: Assault on Precinct 13, Arrebato, Cure, Hester Street & More

After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of r...

Trailer for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Brings Berlin Winner Stateside

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is certainly one of the greatest festival winners in recent years—a designation I don't assign just (just) because of the name. ...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Review: A Breathlessly Paced, Unpretentious, and Goofy Blockbuster

Trauma, prison reform, closeted homosexuality—all subjects given their due in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the second chapter in the continuing saga of Eddie B...

Posterized October 2021: The French Dispatch, Titane, The Velvet Underground & More

Tony Soprano. Eddie Brock. James Bond. Edgar Wright. There are some big names coming to the big screen this month. If that's not an indication of Holly...

NYFF Review: Saul Williams Burns a Vibrant Hole Into the Future with Neptune Frost

With his directorial debut, poet-musician-actor Saul Williams has no desire to hold back. Neptune Frost, a technology-focused musical set in Rwanda co-directed...

NYFF Review: Kira Kovalenko’s Unclenching the Fists is a Bleak and Provocative Drama

There are clenched fists aplenty in Unclenching the Fists. Stuck in a former mining town high in the mountains of North Ossetia, its characters are as weighed ...

NYFF Review: Futura Cannot Escape the Past

Teenagers think about the future without hesitation. They worry about what jobs they’ll get, where they’ll go to school, who they will marry, who they might sl...

The Souvenir Part II Trailer: Joanna Hogg Returns with One of the Best Sequels of All-Time

While it is a warranted opinion to bemoan the endless output of sequels, an exception can certainly be made for Joanna Hogg's follow-up The Souvenir Part II––n...

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

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

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Reviews

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

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Features

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

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

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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