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The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films, Reviewed

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short no...

The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films, Reviewed

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short no...

Berlinale Review: Queen at Sea Sets Tom Courtenay and Juliette Binoche with a Thorny Moral Dilemma

Eleven years ago, Tom Courtenay arrived at the Berlinale with Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, an exquisitely observed study of emotional dilemma in which the British ...

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

A welcome annual tradition, the Directors Guild of America gathered their nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film—Paul Thom...

Berlinale Review: Prosecution is a Propulsive Investigation Into Far-Right Violence

Last week, the jury president of the Berlin Film Festival claimed that this year’s edition would provide an “opposite” to politics. If such a thing exists,...

Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96

Non-fiction cinema is before and after Frederick Wiseman, an indisputable notion that loses no import with the news, made official by his own Zipporah Films, t...

Berlinale Review: An Extraordinary Isabelle Huppert Dwarfs Everyone Else In Ulrike Ottinger’s Campy The Blood Countess

When I think about a quintessential Isabelle Huppert film, I like to defer to a largely forgotten feature that will soon turn ten: Serge Bozon’s 2017 Mrs. Hyde...

Sean Baker, Miguel Gomes, Véréna Paravel, Laura Citarella, and Eduardo Williams Plot New Films

Any film that earns you, personally, the greatest number of Oscars since Walt Disney is a tough act to follow, so one must admire Sean Baker's lack of pretensi...

Berlinale Review: Tristan Forever Highlights a Jaded Doctor’s Search for Purpose

There's a melancholy to Tobias Nölle and Loran Bonnardot's Tristan Forever that is comforting. A lingering, existential question hangs over everything: where d...

Berlinale Review: Mouse Offers a Tender Companion After Loss

It’s the last day of junior high for Minnie (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) and her best friend Callie (Chloe Coleman); the veil of adulthood has never felt as thi...

News

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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