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Fantasia Review: Hotel Poseidon Mashes Genres with Anarchic Hallucination

I'm not sure what I just saw. Was it surreal comedy in a setting that exudes sympathy puke aura? Was it a nightmarish horror sending us down a chaotic rabbit h...

André Benjamin Joins the Cast of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise

Production is underway in and around the Cleveland area for Noah Baumbach's next film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's seminal novel White Noise. With Adam Driv...

Locarno Review: The Sacred Spirit is a Magical, Bewitching Space Oddity

Welcome to the OVNI-Levante Ufology Association, please take a seat. It’s the 37th meeting for this band of alien-obsessed misfits from Elche, Spain, and the l...

Fantasia Review: What Josiah Saw Depicts a Shared Horror with a Potent Payoff

Josiah Graham (Robert Patrick) doesn't believe in God. To look at him and witness his actions is enough to know this truth, but his words have never been afrai...

Locarno Review: Zeros and Ones Finds Abel Ferrara Channeling the Fury of His Early Work

The city of Rome certainly means something to Abel Ferrara. A new home after being priced-out and disgusted by the “new” New York, it’s served in recent films ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Carol on 35mm, Screen Slate at 10 & More

After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repert...

Abel Ferrara Adds Shia LaBeouf to Padre Pio Biopic; Willem Dafoe Circling

Putting the discourse to test as if it sought sanctification, Abel Ferrara has revealed Shia LaBeouf—whose most recent news cycle was, put one way, undesirable...

Fantasia Review: Ghosting Gloria is a Sex Horror-Comedy with a Supernatural Touch

Sex is everywhere Gloria (Stefania Tortorella) turns. She can't sleep because the people in the apartment above her are at it every single night like clockwork...

Fantasia Review: Indemnity is a Breakneck, Bourne-Esque South African Thriller

Theo Abrams (Jarrid Geduld) jumps into action with CPR upon waking to find his wife's (Nicole Fortuin's Angela) dead body by his side. He then immediately clam...

Free Guy Review: A Fleet-Footed, Innocuous Adventure Through a Digital World

For a major release by a media behemoth, Free Guy is surprisingly restrained. Set in an ersatz Fortnite dubbed Free City, the film follows Ryan Reynolds’ Guy, ...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

Features

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

Podcasts

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

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

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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