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TIFF Review: Silent Land Captures an Entitled Couple’s Gradual Emotional Implosion

Desperate for respite from their bourgeois lives in Poland, Adam (Dobromir Dymecki) and Anna (Agnieszka Zulewska) decide to vacation on a tiny Italian island. ...

TIFF Review: A Banquet is an Intimate, Nightmarish Portrait of a Fracturing Family

It's a question we ask through the duration of our lives: what's the point? Maybe you say these words in search of meaning where humanity as a species is conce...

TIFF Review: Radu Muntean’s Întregalde Uses a Horror Blueprint to Reach a Disappointing Destination

The title of Radu Muntean’s latest film comes from the remote Transylvanian village and surrounding area in which its unlucky protagonists find themselves stuc...

TIFF Review: The Story of My Wife is a Well-Shot, Monotonous Romantic Journey of Sparse Ideas

The best way to describe Ildikó Enyedi’s latest film is a disappointing Martin Eden. Despite having just as much of an eye for beautiful imagery as Pietro Marc...

TIFF Review: Mothering Sunday Achingly Portrays Damaged Souls in the Wake of WWI

Mother's Day, 1924: a day for servant girls to ride the train home to their mothers and wealthy mothers to have brunch with their children. Except that a post-...

TIFF Review: Terrorizers is a Taipei-Set Tale That Explores Uncomfortable Truths

On first blush, Wi Ding Ho's Taipei-set Terrorizers looks like a love story six years in the making. That's when young, blonde dishwasher Xiao Zhang (J.C. Lin)...

TIFF Review: The Girl and the Spider is a Mesmerizing, Moving Drama Full of Mystery

Ostensibly the story of a Berlin family preparing for its evening dinner as a cat wanders the apartment, The Strange Little Cat was among the most beguiling fi...

Venice Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God Lacks Divine Inspiration

Contemporary filmmakers clearly have an enormous bee in their bonnet for the coming-of-age film and poetic youth memoir—even Steven Spielberg is currently gett...

TIFF Review: To Kill the Beast Finds Women Fighting Fear in Atmospheric Feature Debut

A beast has arrived at a small town on the border between Argentina and Brazil. People talk about it being the spirit of an evil man transforming into differen...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Soggy Bottom Gets a New, Vinyl-Inspired Title: Licorice Pizza

At long last, Paul Thomas Anderson is ready to share the first look of his new film with the world—well, not the entire world yet. His Phantom Thread follow-up...

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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