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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...

Gaspar Noé on Facing Death, Casting Dario Argento, and the Hypnosis of Vortex

It’s August at the Locarno Film Festival and Gaspar Noé is in a philosophical mood: “In life there are not two doors. There is just one door. There is an entra...

Exclusive Restoration Trailer for Robert Mugge’s Deep Blues Takes a Music-Filled Journey Through the South

An official selection at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Mugge's music documentary Deep Blues has now been restored and is arriving this fall. In 1990,...

Arrebato Review: Newly Restored Spanish Horror Lives Up to Cult Classic Status

It's not until heroin is mentioned that Ana Turner (Cecilia Roth) stops and reconsiders the offer to partake by boyfriend José Sirgado (Eusebio Poncela). She's...

Old Henry Review: Tim Blake Nelson Commands Quiet, Dark Western

Henry's (Tim Blake Nelson) been living and farming his Oklahoma land for almost two decades, if not more—the last ten as a single father to the now-teenage Wya...

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

Armand Trailer: Renate Reinsve Leads Norway’s Oscar Contender

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

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

Features

New to Streaming: A Different Man, The Outrun, My Old Ass, Used Cars & More

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

“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

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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