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Moonage Daydream Director Brett Morgen on Meeting David Bowie and Capturing the Artist’s Spirit

Back in May, Moonage Daydream – the hypnotic, experimental documentary abstraction that encapsulates David Bowie’s life, art, and philosophy – blew the top off...

All That Breathes Trailer: Sundance & Cannes Winner is One of the Best Docs of 2022

The first film to ever win both the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema) at Sundance and the Best Documentary Prize at Cannes, Shaunak Sen's gentle, inspiring docum...

Venice Review: In Viaggio is a Fascinating Rorschach Test of the Pope

Following The Young Pope, The New Pope, and The Two Popes, the time has officially come for the Woke Pope. In Viaggio, Gianfranco Rosi’s fascinating Rorschach ...

Confess, Fletch Review: Jon Hamm Charms in Clever, Casual Mystery

Jon Hamm finally got the leading man role he deserved after Mad Men. It's a shame it took seven years. Regardless, Confess, Fletch is an absolute treat. Direct...

San Sebastian Review: Ulrich Seidl’s Controversial Sparta Examines Pedophilia with a Non-Judgmental View

Ulrich Seidl is a director of curiosities, of shabby characters, pursued with an uncompromising and sometimes unfashionable gaze. Yet Sparta arrives in competi...

TIFF Review: Sidney Maintains an Icon’s Sanitized Likability

With Sidney Poitier's own voice providing the narrative backbone to Reginald Hudlin's documentary Sidney, we get to rediscover just what a wonderful storytelle...

Casablanca Beats Review: Inspiring Musical Treads Familiar Territory Effectively

The subgenre of "ambitious outsider teacher who is determined to inspire a ragtag group of disenchanted students" is well-worn, to put it mildly. Yet when the ...

TIFF Review: Joyland is a Tasteful But Passionless Family Drama

Another example of a tasteful but passionless festival film, Saim Sadiq’s feature debut Joyland errs on the side of arch family drama when its most interesting...

To the Moon Review: A Violent, Surprising, and Reality-Blurring Psychological Thriller

"Malevolent" is the word Dennis (writer-director Scott Friend) uses to describe his estranged brother Roger (Will Brill). That's quite the adjective without co...

TIFF Review: Concrete Valley is a Moving But Disjointed Immigrant Drama

Welcome to Antoine Bourges' love letter to the Thorncliffe Park apartment complex, better known as "Arrival City"—the usual landing spot for new immigrants com...

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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