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Exclusive Trailer for Ellroy vs. L.A. Enters the Mind of a Noir Master

Capturing the city of angels like few other writers, The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy is the subject of the latest documentary from d...

It Was Just an Accident Review: Jafar Panahi’s Fiercest, Most Incendiary Takedown of Iran’s Regime

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. It Was Just an Accident is now in theaters. If you were handed over the ...

Ballad of a Small Player Review: A Delicious, Nasty Exuberance

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Telluride coverage. Ballad of a Small Player is now in theaters and arrives on Netflix on Octobe...

Sam Raimi Finally Returns to Horror in First Trailer for Send Help

For fans of Sam Raimi in horror-thriller mode, the starvation has been real. In the nearly two decades since 2009's Drag Me to Hell, the Evil Dead director has...

Exclusive Trailer for Acclaimed Documentary River of Grass Explores the History and Future of the Everglades

A world premiere at the esteemed True/False Film Festival this year, while making award-winning stops at Hot Docs, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and more, S...

Rebuilding Trailer: Josh O’Connor Reassambles His Life

The third of four films starring Josh O'Connor to get a fall release, Max Walker-Silverman's A Love Song follow-up Rebuilding premiered at the Sundance Film Fe...

BFI London Review: Bad Apples Sets Saoirse Ronan in a Twisty Thriller

To international viewers, Bad Apples will play like a conventional dark comedy about a schoolteacher pushed too far by a student; to Brits, it’s a scorched Ear...

Juliette Binoche Reflects on Working with Krzysztof Kieślowski at Busan International Film Festival

In 2008, Juliette Binoche paired with dancer Akram Khan for in-i, an experimental dance work about a couple's dissolving relationship. They performed the piece...

Exclusive Trailer for Cinema Guild and MoMA’s João César Monteiro Retrospective Revives One of Portugal’s Great Filmmakers

In the last five-or-so years I've probably not acquainted myself with a better filmmaker than João César Monteiro, who I'd either distill as the closest analog...

The Hyperboreans Review: Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s Warning Against Political Amnesia

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. The Hyperboreans is now streaming on Film Movement+. “We humans are capable ...

News

March on the Criterion Channel Includes the Romanian New Wave, Ghost in the Shell, Who Killed Teddy Bear & More

Exclusive Poster for Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3, Arriving This March

Watch a 2.5-Hour Conversation with Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Josh Safdie, Guillermo del Toro, and Chloé Zhao

Trailers

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Trailer: Jane Schoenbrun Returns This Summer

Dry Leaf Trailer: Alexandre Koberidze Finds Beauty Through a 2008 Sony Ericsson Phone

Revelations of Divine Love Trailer: Caroline Golum’s Acclaimed Medieval Tale Arrives This March

Reviews

Berlinale Review: Foreign Travel is a Rousing Ode to the Transformative Powers of Reading

Berlinale Review: Yellow Letters Targets Authoritarianism with Timidity

Berlinale Review: My Wife Cries Is Another Poetic Tapestry From Angela Schanelec

Features

New to Streaming: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, No Other Choice, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Raymond Depardon, A.I., The Loved One & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Alison McAlpine In Conversation With Walter Murch on Her Oscar-Nominated Perfectly a Strangeness

“We Cut 95% of It Out”: Matt Johnson on Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Constant Re-Editing, and Season 3

Cashiers Du Cinéma Editors on Programming Their BAM Series and Celebrating Cinema Workers

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 175 – Rachel McAdams

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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