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TIFF Review: No Bears Is a Curb Your Enthusiasm-Esque Act of Defiance By Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi’s career can now be split into two distinct sections: his work prior to an initial 2010 arrest amidst Iran’s Green Movement, and his creative resp...

TIFF Review: Hong Sangsoo’s Walk Up is Relaxing in its Languid Rhythms

If one thing of late really sets Hong Sang-soo apart, it’s his unglamorous depiction of the film director. Appropriate to the small-scale of his corpus, these ...

TIFF Review: All Quiet on the Western Front Sacrifices Brutality for Cliché

In a year and festival where Steven Spielberg releases a reflective film on his own life and relationship to cinema, it's understandable that we get a war film...

TIFF Review: Autobiography Explores the Power Struggle Between Military and Citizenry

General Purna (Arswendy Bening Swara) never had a son, so returning to his mansion to ready for a reelection campaign (the days of military dictatorship in Ind...

TIFF Review: Maya and the Wave Examines the Fight for Equality in a Male-Dominated Sport

At twenty-six years of age, Brazilian Maya Gabeira was at the top of her sport. A world champion. Winner of countless awards. On covers of magazines. And reppe...

TIFF Review: Blueback Takes a Lightweight Look at Bigger Issues

Australia’s answer to the 2022 Oscar Best Picture winner CODA is here. I’m only half-joking. Blueback is a bit better than the movie that most recently won Bes...

TIFF Review: Will-o’-the-Wisp is a Buoyant, Bittersweet Musical Comedy with a Lot on Its Mind

A hopeful and bittersweet plea for a better future, Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ 67-minute oddity Will-o’-the-Wisp covers three periods in the life of Alfredo, a “Pri...

NYC Weekend Watch: Terra Femme, Infernal Affairs, The Caan Film Festival & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Anthology Film Archives On Sunday, Courtney Stephens gives a live performance of her arc...

Speak No Evil Director Christian Tafdrup on Creating the Most Terrifying Film of the Year

Absent of jump scares, supernatural elements, and most clichés that come with horror, Christian Tafdrup's Speak No Evil is more interested in the ways as human...

TIFF Review: Free Money Doesn’t Do Justice to Its Subject

Everyone over the age of eighteen (those fifteen and older become eligible on their eighteenth birthday) will receive twenty-two dollars a month for twelve yea...

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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