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BIFF Review: Lovely Jackson Provides a Visceral Reckoning with Wrongful Imprisonment

More than just a documentary detailing the circumstances surrounding Rickey Jackson's 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, Matt Waldeck's Lovely Jac...

The Fire That Took Her Review: Judy Malinowski Murder Case is Revisited in Heroic, Heartbreaking Doc

There are many reasons director Patricia E. Gillespie wanted to tell Judy Malinowski's story. The most crucial was a desire to ensure she wasn't forgotten. Tha...

U.S. Trailer for The Novelist’s Film Presents Hong Sangsoo’s Best In Years

Well, all right: the headline isn't 100% ironclad. Your mileage may vary on where the best of Hong Sangsoo's recent work—let's say the last five films instead ...

All That Breathes Announced as Recipient of Inaugural Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced Shaunak Sen’s remarkable, essential documentary All That Breathes as the inaugural recipient of the IFSN Advocate ...

The Criterion Collection’s January 2023 Lineup: Bergman Island, Lars von Trier, Terry Gilliam & More

And lo a new year begins—or will in two-and-a-half months' time, which still won't stop Criterion from cracking the seal. 2023 (Christ) begins on a bang with B...

BFI London Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Might Be the Finest Adaptation Yet of the Carlo Collodi Classic

Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio is widely understood as an easily accessible coming-of-age metaphor—peeling back our childlike wonderment at the wo...

NYFF Review: “Sr.” is a Tender, Reflexive Portrait of the Downey Family

Robert Downey Sr.'s accolades and popularity pale in comparison to his son. While Downey Sr. focused on writing and directing underground cinema in the 1960s a...

Olivier Assayas and Kristen Stewart Are Planning a New Film

If it was a great year for Olivier Assayas fans, the paradox is that knowing the man can still produce one of his liveliest, boldest, funniest, all-around-grea...

NYFF Review: She Said Depicts Harvey Weinstein’s Downfall as Measured Procedural

“Can I quote you?” As it did throughout Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey’s intrepid investigative journalism for the New York Times, that question reverberates in...

NYFF Review: Till Gives Proper Treatment to an Essential American Story

Chinonye Chukwu’s Till finds the Clemency writer-director facing the story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy lynched in 1955. More specifically the story of ...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

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

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

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 Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

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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