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A Metamorphosis Begins in Exclusive Trailer for Sundance Winner Son of Monarchs

Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan prize at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Alexis Gambis' Son of Monarchs follows a New York-based Mexican biologist who ...

Copshop Review: Joe Carnahan’s Crime Drama Proves Limitations May Be His Best Friend

It’d be hard to argue Joe Carnahan isn’t permanently stuck in 1997. Operating well past the point where dozens upon dozens of Tarantino knockoffs were inescapa...

TIFF Review: Tom Burke Disturbs Ruth Wilson’s Monotonous Life in True Things

Kate (Ruth Wilson) is listless. She works a dead-end workers' claim desk wherein her bosses are so redundant that they don't think they're doing their job unle...

Full Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story Dances Through 1950s NYC

With it being touted as the year of movie musicals, the one film that has yet to premiere in this category is Steven Spielberg's West Side Story. We had the vi...

Venice Review: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco Burrows Down, Down, Down Towards an Epiphany

Caves… whence we came from––and for Italian auteur Michelangelo Frammartino’s latest work Il Buco––towards which we return. The fixation with caves and speleol...

Lady of the Manor Review: Supernatural Slacker Comedy Offers Juvenile Farce and Low Stakes

The directorial debut of brothers Justin and Christian Long (who also co-write) hinges on a pedophilia joke. Let's get that out in the open because you're eith...

TIFF Review: Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty Hands Jake Gyllenhaal the Phone in Solid American Remake

Only three years ago, Danish director Gustav Möller made The Guilty, a single-room thriller focused on an operator attempting to save a kidnapped woman. Met wi...

TIFF Review: Earwig is Gorgeous Gothic Horror in Search of a Story

Those who know Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s work will recognize a new film as an event. Having only made two features this century––2004’s Innocence and 2015’s Evol...

TIFF Review: Quickening Follows a Pakistani Canadian Teenager’s Search for Autonomy

Writer-director Haya Waseem's feature debut Quickening is not about a pregnancy. Knowing this is crucial enough that she opens the film with the definition of ...

TIFF Review: The Daughter is a Pregnancy Drama That Grows into a Psychological Thriller

The plan is simple but risky. Javier (Javier Gutiérrez) has worked at a juvenile delinquent center for two decades, interacting with all kinds of troubled teen...

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

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

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

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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