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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...

Sundance Review: Infinity Pool is a Delirious, Disturbing Dive Into Hedonism

By now the Cronenberg surname has become synonymous with bodily obsession. Like his father David's wealthy oeuvre of anatomical grotesquerie, Brandon Cronenber...

Sundance Review: Divinity is a Cult Classic in the Making

Divinity can best be described as a “brain trip,” a film that acts as an upgraded '80s B-movie. Eddie Alcazar’s futuristic, violent drama follows two brothers ...

Sundance Review: Bad Behaviour Lacks Cohesion Despite Jennifer Connelly’s Best Efforts

Bad Behaviour cannot pick a tone. Over the 107 minutes of Alice Englert’s debut feature, the only consistency comes from constant shifting. Following Lucy (Jen...

Sundance Review: 5 Seasons of Revolution Portrays Humanity Wrapped Up in Revolt

Above all else, 5 Seasons of Revolution is a visceral bit of filmmaking. Directed by Lina, a video reporter required to shield her identity, this documentary c...

95th Academy Awards Nominations Include The Fabelmans, Top Gun, TÁR, and EO

The nominations for the 2023 Academy Awards are one of the least-dignified things I have had to scramble with after (admittedly) sleeping in late, and if it's ...

Sundance Review: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie Paints a Powerful Portrait of a Restless Actor

It started with a finger twitch. Michael J. Fox remembers being in bed in 1990 and staring at his pinky moving uncontrollably. At first he thought it might be ...

Sundance Review: Mutt Proves Thoughtful and Effective if a Bit Stagnant

There is an energy to the opening minutes of Mutt, written and directed by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, that fades away and never really recovers. Early on we meet Feña...

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

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

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

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