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TIFF Review: Fabrice Du Welz Falters with Inexorable, a Rote Riff on a ’90s Thriller

While handsomely shot, well-cast, and occasionally atmospheric, the latest from Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz qualifies as a watchable disappointment. Inexo...

TIFF Review: Farha Vividly Depicts Palestinian History Through the Eyes of a Teenager

The text reads: Palestine, 1948. That's all you need to know to understand what's coming. A year earlier marked the start of the Palestinian Civil War between ...

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...

News

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

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

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Film Stage’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

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

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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