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Posterized July 2021: The Green Knight, The Woman Who Ran, Summer of Soul & More

The theaters are officially back. How do I know? Because I had almost three times as many posters to go through for this month's write-up than I had an...

15 Films to See in July

After offering up our picks for the best films of the first half of the year, we enter the second half with a strong release slate. Arriving this July is a ste...

U.S. Trailer for Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time Concludes One of Sci-Fi’s Great Sagas

The greatest sci-fi franchise of our lifetime is not Star Wars, Star Trek, and certainly not anything in the comic realm. It's The Matrix, obviously, and we po...

2021 Locarno Film Festival Lineup Includes Films from Abel Ferrara, Gaspar Noé & More

Year after year a site par excellence for the most innovative premieres—in that respect an antithesis to the ensuing fall circuit—the Locarno Film Festival ret...

The Forever Purge Review: The Horror Franchise’s Final Chapter Finds Provocation and Wit in Our Dystopia

There's one key fact about the fifth and (apparently) final installment in James DeMonaco's Purge series that demands mentioning: it was scheduled to debut Jul...

Trailer for Cannes Competition Title The Story of My Wife Starring Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel

The great Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi appears infrequently, making something of an occasion her next feature, The Story of My Wife. But we'd be thrilled ...

Bill Murray Rocks the Acropolis in First Trailer for Cannes Premiere New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization

If he decides to show up in France next month, Bill Murray will be pulling double duty. Not only has the actor reteamed with Wes Anderson for The French Dispat...

Till Death Review: Megan Fox Anchors a Contrived Survival Thriller

For its first act, Till Death tries keeping things muted. S.K. Dale directs his cast to deliver lines as if they’re somewhere between whispering and talking; c...

Come Fly with Quentin Dupieux in U.S. Trailer for Mandibles

Another year, another Quentin Dupieux oddity. While the specter of new work from "the guy who made a movie about the killer tire" has, perhaps, worn down in th...

Return to The Sopranos in First Trailer for The Many Saints of Newark

Among the fall's more enticing studio options is The Many Saints of Newark, a long-anticipated, long-delayed Sopranos prequel-of-sorts—to hear co-writer David ...

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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