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Godland Trailer: Hlynur Pálmason Takes an Epic Spiritual Journey Through Remote Iceland

After his acclaimed, more smaller-scale dramas Winter Brothers and A White, White Day, Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason returned to the festival circuit last...

The Criterion Collection Announce April Lineup: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Three 4K Releases

Criterion begin this year (or just go into their fourth month) with a bang. Three 4K releases will mark April: The Seventh Seal (what black levels your OLED wi...

Paul Thomas Anderson Says His Favorite Film of 2022 is Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives

Arriving in the middle of a busy summer slate and on the heels of an extensive documentary that covered the story, Ron Howard's narrative depiction of the Tham...

Our 20 Most-Anticipated Films Premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival

Returning to an in-person edition, along with the continuation of virtual offerings, the Sundance Film Festival kicks off this Thursday and lasts through Janua...

House Party Review: Funny But Predictable Revival Plays into the Established Formula

A formula as old as the movies itself, the House Party concept is essentially a blank slate revolving around the climatic, titular event where the stakes of fr...

Ari Aster Plans New Film with Emma Stone and Christopher Abbott Attached

After the back-to-back releases of Hereditary and Midsommar in 2018 and 2019, respectively, it's been a four-year wait for the next film from Ari Aster. While ...

Liam Neeson is Philip Marlowe in First Trailer for Neil Jordan’s William Monahan-Scripted Noir Thriller

After being portrayed by the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Elliott Gould, James Garner, and Robert Montgomery, the Raymond Chandler creation Philip...

Shin Ultraman Review: A Propulsive, Philosophical Superhero Extravaganza

Four decades ago—before he worked with Hayao Miyazaki, before the young artists’ collective he co-founded changed their name from “Daicon Films” to “Studio Gai...

Plane Review: Gerard Butler Pilots a Refreshingly Regressive Potboiler

Nowadays it’s rare to see a multiplex movie with so little affect. And arriving in the second week of January as one of the few dumping-ground action programme...

Skinamarink Director Kyle Edward Ball on Finding Terror in the Experimental and YouTube’s Avant-Garde Revolution

For five years, Canadian filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball’s YouTube channel “Bite-Sized Nightmares” has been showcasing shorts full of fuzzy video, distorted sound, ...

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

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

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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