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Together Review: Stephen Daldry Tackles Trauma in Real Time, For Better or Worse

Right off the bat, let's acknowledge something: making a movie about the COVID-19 pandemic during the COVID-19 pandemic feels like too much too fast. That said...

Fantasia Review: Baby, Don’t Cry is an Immigrant Tale Told with Cathartic, Experimental Poetry

Baby (Zita Bai) is a seventeen-year-old Chinese immigrant surviving on the fringes of her community. She's a voyeur—always with camera on to capture the dialog...

Fantasia Review: Lee Won-tae’s Twisty Thriller The Devil’s Deal Puts an Honest Man Through the Wringer

There's no way anybody beats Jeon Hae-woong (Cho Jin-woong) in a hometown election—everyone loves him. Walking down the street means shaking hands and bowing t...

Fantasia Review: Baby Money is a Race Against Time and Greed

The job is simple. Break into an old couple's home in the middle of the night, skulk around while they sleep to procure a purple metal box, and then just wait ...

Fantasia Review: The Sadness Imagines a Relatable Nihilistic Pandemic Hellscape

Trigger warnings accompanying The Sadness at the Fantasia International Film Festival are no joke. The acts of violence writer-director Rob Jabbaz has his char...

Fantasia Review: Agnes is Not Your Mother’s Exorcism Movie

Agnes begins how any other possession film might––with the discovery of a demonic presence. When the convent of Saint Theresa fear there’s evil inhabiting the ...

Locarno Review: Public Toilet Africa is a Rebellious, Picaresque Road Trip Through Ghana

Impeccably dressed, eyes shielded by sunglasses and arms dangling from the windows of their Nissan pickup, Ama (Briggitte Appiah) and Sadiq (David Klu) breeze ...

MUBI Unveils September 2021 Lineup

The U.S. lineup for films coming to MUBI this September has been announced, featuring some of my personal favorites of the last few years, notably Philippe Les...

Sparks on Annette, Polarizing Reactions, Leos Carax’s Vision, and Their Next Film

My years of Sparks evangelizing found a strange wellspring in 2021. What began with Edgar Wright's delightful, career-spanning The Sparks Brothers found its fu...

NYC Weekend Watch: Buñuel Double, The Hourglass Sanatorium, Persona & More

Paris Theater To mark their return, a frighteningly stacked weekend: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and Mort Rifkin favorite A Man and a Woman on Friday; Buñuel...

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

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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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