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Criterion’s Resurrects Eclipse with 17-Film Abbas Kiarostami Blu-ray Set

When the world of physical media often lacks hope, good news can land very hard. Case in point: the Criterion Collection have announced the return of their Ecl...

Rose Byrne is Adrift in First Trailer for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Seventeen years after her directorial debut Yeast, which gave Greta Gerwig one of her very first roles, Mary Bronstein finally returns with her second feature,...

Exclusive Clip from Alexandre Koberidze’s Sony Ericsson-Shot Locarno Premiere Dry Leaf

We can admire those who (brilliantly) craft entire feature films on iPhones, but the choice to shoot a three-hour feature with a Sony Ericsson––a device which ...

Boys Go to Jupiter Review: An Open-Source Nightmare-Scape of Late-Stage Capitalism

Boys Go to Jupiter, an animated feature directed and written by Pittsburgh-based 3D artist Julian Glander, is truly a product of its time. And that time is now...

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: A Lovely Document of a Beautiful, Tragic, Talented Life

Amy Berg's It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley is an impressive archival document as well as a celebration of the life of a tortured artist. And while the term "tort...

Jay Kelly Trailer: Noah Baumbach Sets George Clooney and Adam Sandler on a European Adventure

Reteaming with Netflix after his ambitious misstep White Noise, Noah Baumbach is getting introspective. Jay Kelly stars George Clooney and Adam Sandler as a mo...

Weapons Review: A Sprawling Horror Tale Lacking Emotional Resonance

For as long as we’ve known about Weapons, writer-director Zach Cregger’s hotly anticipated follow-up to his 2022 blackly comic splatter sensation Barbarian, we...

63rd New York Film Festival Unveils Main Slate

Ahead of the 63rd New York Film Festival kicking off next month, taking place September 26 through October 13, the Main Slate has now been unveiled, featuring ...

James L. Brooks Finally Returns with First Trailer for Ella McCay

In the fifteen interminably long years since James L. Brooks' last directorial feature, the kind of adult-focused, warm dramas with recognizably emphatic chara...

New Trailer for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest Finds Denzel Washington Facing a Moral Dilemma

Spike Lee’s first narrative feature in five years is Highest 2 Lowest, his reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low that marks a reteam with Denzel Wa...

News

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Exclusive Palestine 36 Poster and Clip: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Tells an Epic Tale of Resistance

Trailers

Disclosure Day Trailer: Steven Spielberg Returns to Extraterrestrial Exploration

A Major Restoration Arrives in Exclusive Trailer for Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly

Exclusive Trailer for Bertrand Bonello-Scored Europe’s New Faces Covers a Troubled Continent

Reviews

The Voice of Hind Rajab Review: Kaouther Ben Hania Brings Questionable Palatability to the Genocide in Gaza

Avatar: Fire and Ash Review: James Cameron Gets His Hands Dirty

Ella McCay Review: A Living Legend’s Final Word on Hope and Forgiveness

Features

The Best 2026 Films We’ve Already Seen

The Best Undistributed Films of 2025

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2025

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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