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Cannes Review: With The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes Crafts a Visually Harmonious Documentary

If you told people in 1967 that Andy Warhol’s house band just released one of the most revered rock albums of all-time, they would ask what they're called, and...

Settlers Review: Sci-Fi Thriller Leaves its Audience in the Dark

The thing about withholding plot information is that you must generally divulge that which you've held back at some point. To simply ignore that your audience ...

Cousins Review: Three Eras Interweave in Inspiring Māori Drama

They only spent one summer together as children, but the connection they share from blood and heritage ultimately lasts a lifetime, whether they know it could ...

MUBI Unveils August 2021 Lineup

Closing out the summer, MUBI has unveiled their August 2021 lineup, kicking off most fittingly with Brett Story's acclaimed recent documentary The Hottest Augu...

Cannes Review: Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or Winner Titane is a Transgressive Blast of Energy

Titane begins not with a whimper but a cacophony: a deafening engine rev; the crash as car meets concrete; then the image of a girl in a horrific head-brace, l...

Cannes Review: Where Is Anne Frank is an Imaginative Yet Trite Animation

The Israeli director Ari Folman rose to international fame at Cannes, where his feted Waltz With Bashir was a rare animated film that competed for the Palme d’...

Cannes Review: Andrea Arnold Examines Animal Personality in the Lo-Fi, Lyrical Cow

Andrea Arnold, director of stylized social-realist dramas like Red Road and Fish Tank, takes a drastic turn with an in-your-face documentary about a farmyard c...

Flee Trailer: Sundance Winner is One of the Year’s Best Animated Films

A highlight at this year's mostly online Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Flee picked up the Grand Jury Prize and now ahead of...

Cannes Review: In Front of Your Face is an Emotional Step Forward for Hong Sangsoo

By evidence, Hong Sangsoo may never make an Oki’s Movie or Hill of Freedom-type work again; our maestro is shooting for bigger emotional game. It’s fascinating...

Cannes Review: A Hero Is Asghar Farhadi’s Return to Form

In A Hero, the discovery of a bag of gold coins sets the scene for a knotted Bressonian morality tale. The director is Asghar Farhadi, a filmmaker who has spen...

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

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

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

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

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

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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