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Peter Hujar’s Day Trailer: Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall Converse in Ira Sachs’ Acclaimed Drama

Passages and Love Is Strange director Ira Sachs returned to the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to debut Peter Hujar’s Day, a drama starring Ben Whish...

NYFF63 Adds the Return of Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Scorsese Doc, Two by Richard Linklater & More

After their Main Slate and Currents lineups have been unveiled, the 63rd New York Film Festival has now revealed its Spotlight selections. Highlights include t...

Dan Sallitt to Direct The Unspeakable Act Sequel What Can’t Be Mentioned

To know Dan Sallitt's cinema is to only wish for more. After 2019's Fourteen, his rough rate of one feature every seven years will hold in rather surprising, w...

Locarno Review: Mare’s Nest Radiates an Inordinate, Contagious Curiosity for the Unknown

Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the excitement for that which...

63rd New York Film Festival Sets Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere as Spotlight Gala

After their Main Slate and Currents lineups have been unveiled, the 63rd New York Film Festival has now revealed its Spotlight Gala selection: Scott Cooper’s S...

Locarno Review: A Seance of Self and Film, Blue Heron is an Astonishing Debut

In Nine Behind, one of Sophy Romvari’s earliest shorts, a young woman is heard sobbing on the phone to her estranged grandfather: “I want to know my family...

NYC Weekend Watch: Luc Moullet, Who Killed Teddy Bear?, The Lovers on the Bridge & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA career-spanning Luc Moullet retrospective begins; In the Mood ...

Exclusive Trailer for Manoel de Oliveira’s Aniki-Bóbó Restores a Career’s Origins

Made when he was 33, not to be followed by another feature for some 20 years, and effectively starting the career of cinema's oldest-ever filmmaker, Aniki-Bóbó...

New to Streaming: Caught by the Tides, Sorry, Baby, Harvest & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

Exclusive Trailer for Bille August’s Zappa and Twist and Shout, Restored and Coming to Blu-ray

One of the few filmmakers to earn a Palme d'Or twice over, Bille August started his career with a pair of period dramas that have been largely forgotten by con...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Catch Me If You Can, The Lost Weekend, The Spirit of the Beehive & More

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

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

Trailers

The Odyssey Trailer Teases Christopher Nolan’s Mythic Epic

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Reviews

The Plague Review: Bullying Drama of Paranoia Requries Suspension of Disbelief

No Other Choice Review: Park Chan-wook’s Rage-Filled and Blood-Drenched Thriller

The Testament of Ann Lee Review: Amanda Seyfried Gives Her Finest Performance Yet

Features

Zhuo-Ning Su’s Top 10 Films of 2025

Nirris Nagendrarajah’s Top 10 Films of 2025

New to Streaming: Sentimental Value, Cover-Up, Where to Land, Die My Love, and More

Interviews

Jack Fisk on Creating an Authentic 1950s New York for Marty Supreme and Josh Safdie’s Drive

Mona Fastvold on The Testament of Ann Lee, Refusing to Compromise, and Cinematic Traditions

“Maybe Sometimes Something Works”: Nathan Silver on Carol & Joy

Podcasts

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

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

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

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