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Léa Seydoux Hits Crisis Point in Trailer for Bruno Dumont’s Cannes Selection France

It is, knowing Bruno Dumont, almost certainly a joke to have the premiere French actress of our time play a crisis-stricken character named France, but I don't...

U.S. Trailer for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria Arrives with a Bang

Some years since Cemetery of Splendour has Apichatpong Weerasethakul returned, this time under two unusual conditions: in English and with a movie star before ...

Cannes Review: Flag Day is Another Voiceover-Laden Weepie From Sean Penn

Whatever else you might want to say about Flag Day, there’s no denying it’s a personal piece of filmmaking, a large factor in its actor-director’s perennial pr...

Cannes Review: Adèle Haenel Narrates a Damning Tale of Post-WWII French History in Returning to Reims

The MIT Press describes Didier Eribon's book Returning to Reims as "a memoir and meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locke...

Cannes Review: Are You Lonesome Tonight? Takes a Disorienting, Methodical Trip Through a Nightmarish World

Xue Ming (Eddie Peng) is in jail when we meet him. He's talking about the boredom of living the same day repeatedly while thinking about how he got there. Deci...

New Details on Jean-Luc Godard’s Next, Possibly Final Films

It was, of course, a shock to the cinematic system that Jean-Luc Godard—let's see... film's single most important living figure?—would retire after the complet...

Cannes Review: kogonada’s After Yang Has Its Heart In the Right Place, If Little Else

The premise of After Yang might require a mild digestif. A work of speculative science fiction from the video-essayist-turned-director kogonada, it concerns th...

Cannes Review: Benedetta Finds Paul Verhoeven Once Again Delightfully Needling Ideas of Good Taste

Many of the best qualities of early and late Verhoeven combine in Benedetta, a tale of sex, blood, and sacrilege in 17th-century Italy. Based on the American h...

The Witches of the Orient Director Julien Faraut Discusses Reinventing the Sports Documentary at Sheffield Docs

As Sheffield Doc Fest wrapped its first online edition, we spoke with one of the most promising filmmakers to emerge from that discipline in recent years. With...

Cannes Review: The Worst Person in the World is a Funny, Observant, and Romantic Look at Millennial Culture

There’s a bravura scene in Joachim Trier’s funny, sexy, and intelligent new rom-com The Worst Person in the World where time stops dead. Its millennial protago...

News

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

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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