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Babylon Review: Damien Chazelle’s Brash, Bombastic Comic Opera Captures the Birth and Death of Cinema

Those seeking an insightful exploration of cinema history in Hollywood’s Golden Age or a nuanced, affecting character study on the lives within this early era ...

New to Streaming: The Fabelmans, The Banshees of Inisherin, Bones and All, Nanny & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

Stefan Zweig Gets Adapted in Exclusive Trailer for Acclaimed German Drama Chess Story

With his work the basis for such great cinematic works as Letter from an Unknown Woman and Only Yesterday, the latest adaptation of a Stefan Zwieg novel comes ...

Crimes of the Future Leads Film Comment’s Top 20 Films of 2022

As various critics groups and awards bodies dole out their top films of the year, it can be hard to parse which ones are actually worth paying attention to. On...

The Criterion Collection Announce March Lineup: INLAND EMPIRE, Mildred Pierce in 4K, John Woo & More

March is for women in trouble. So Criterion decided when they slotted INLAND EMPIRE, which follows this year's major repertory run with a dazzlingly stacked se...

The Most Overlooked Films of 2022

As the arthouse cinema market continues to regain its footing, the list of what may be considered an overlooked film could be quite vast, depending on one's me...

First Trailer for Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up Finds Michelle Williams Living the Art Life

The best Michelle Williams performance of the year was not, in fact, in a Steven Spielberg-directed motion picture, but a reunion with her greatest collaborato...

Thessaloniki Review: Blue Jean is an Unflinching, Defiant Queer Drama

The Blue Jean of David Bowie’s 1984 hit was a girl with “a camouflage face,” not unlike the singer and the two personas he splintered into for the song’s video...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 491 – The Fabelmans (with Amy Nicholson)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Conor O'Donnell joins Bill Graham and Robyn Bahr with special guest Amy Nicholson to...

The Best Cinematography of 2022

"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

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 Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

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

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

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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