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The Love That Remains Review: A Cathartic, Impressionistic Portrait of Love and Loss

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 NYFF coverage. The Love That Remains opens in theaters on January 30. Hlynur Pálmason’s f...

A Poet Review: A Darkly Humorous Tale of Failed Creative Pursuits

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. A Poet opens in theaters on January 30. Far removed from the mournful yearni...

Islands Review: Sam Riley-Led Neo Noir Plays It Too Safe

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Berlinale coverage. Islands opens in theaters on January 30. Sam Riley stars as Tom, a washed...

When the Light Breaks Review: A Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Thessaloniki coverage. When the Light Breaks is now available digitally. Watching When the Li...

Sundance Review: The Incomer Offers Plenty of Character, Not Enough Laughs

The extended opening of The Incomer, written and directed by Louis Paxton, is very funny and engaging. That the film never reaches those heights again is somet...

Sundance Review: Barbara Forever is Much More Than a Celebration of a Great Artist

The best thing about Brydie O’Connor's documentary Barbara Forever is how it functions as an interesting, engaging movie on its own terms. It concerns the ...

The Love That Remains Director Hlynur Pálmason on the Preciousness of Time and Spontaneous Filmmaking

Since taking his debut feature Winter Brothers to the Locarno Film Festival in 2017, Hlynur Pálmason has gradually made his name as one of Europe's most eclect...

Hong Sangsoo Puts Comedy In Focus with U.S. Trailer for What Does That Nature Say to You

Nearly all of Hong Sangsoo's films are funny—Funny Ha Ha does what it says on the tin—but it's been a moment since the man released a proper comedy. This made ...

Sundance Review: John Turturro Shines in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

The thing about New York City is: it’s never as good as it was, yet it’s still better than anywhere else. The only thing constant is change, and the city i...

One Battle After Another Production Designer Florencia Martin on Building Paul Thomas Anderson’s Detailed World

Florencia Martin's second feature collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson following Licorice Pizza and her second Oscar nomination following Babylon, One Battl...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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