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Mad God: VFX Wizard Phil Tippett Returns with a Boldly Nightmarish Stop-Motion Animation

With his work on Star Wars, RoboCop, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, and many more, the Oscar-winning Phil Tippett has come to define the landscape of visual...

Riz Ahmed is a Rapper with an Uncertain Future in U.S. Trailer for Mogul Mowgli

Ever since first impressing in Four Lions over a decade ago, Riz Ahmed has gone on to have quite a career, from Nightcrawler to Rogue One to The Night Of, but ...

Naked Singularity Review: John Boyega Gets Caught Up in a Corrupt System

The title is a metaphor. The criminal justice system in America is a black hole consuming everything in its path but, unlike in general relativity where an eve...

The Green Knight Review: David Lowery’s Adaptation Fails to Capture the Greatness of its Source Material

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the richest medieval texts, a delightful story one could spend hours discussing with no possible end to the interpret...

The B-Side – Emily Blunt

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...

New to Streaming: Never Gonna Snow Again, Raúl Ruiz, Gunda, Enemies of the State & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week's selections below and past r...

House of Gucci Trailer: Lady Gaga and Adam Driver Lead Ridley Scott’s Second Film of the Year

After getting the trailer for Ridley Scott's first film of 2021, The Last Duel, the first trailer for his second film of the year, House of Gucci, has now arri...

NYC Weekend Watch: Raúl Ruiz, The Big Sleep, L’Avventura & More

After a hiatus where New York's theaters closed during the pandemic, we're delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repert...

Nine Days Director Edson Oda on Finding the Beauty in Life, Mental Health, and Admiring Hirokazu Koreeda

When director-writer Edson Oda was twelve years old, his uncle took his own life. And ever since that devastating tragedy, people only saw him as a man who com...

Nadav Lapid on Ahed’s Knee, Israel’s Collective Soul, and Embracing Western Archetypes

Two years on from swooping the Golden Bear in Berlin with Synonyms (one of our favorites of 2019), Nadav Lapid returns with Ahed's Knee, a fraught and blisteri...

News

A David Lynch Short Film From 2018 is Now Available to Watch for the First Time

February on the Criterion Channel Includes Argentine Noir, Joan Micklin Silver, Chantal Akerman & More

An Expanded Edition of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love with Never-Before-Seen Footage Sets China Premiere

Trailers

Broken Rage Trailer: Takeshi Kitano’s Crime Comedy Comes to Prime Video This February

Jaume Collet-Serra Returns to Horror in First Trailer for The Woman in the Yard

Peter Weir’s Landmark of Australian Cinema Is Salvaged In Trailer for Picnic at Hanging Rock‘s 4K Release

Reviews

Wolf Man Review: Leigh Whannell’s Effective Reboot Scares Up Hereditary Horrors

Emmanuelle Review: Audrey Diwan Subverts an Erotic Classic to Compelling, Alienating Effect

Every Little Thing Review: A Sensitive Portrait of a Great Woman’s Dedication to Hummingbirds

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Fat City, THX 1138, Anthony Mann & More

New to Streaming: Queer, Close Your Eyes, A Different Man, Red Rooms & More

Eli Friedberg’s Top 10 First-Viewings of 2024

Interviews

The Brutalist Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic

Mike Leigh on Hard Truths, Losing Dick Pope, and the Duty of an Artist

“Cinema Could Be Grander”: Nickel Boys Director RaMell Ross on Perspectives, Contradictions, and True Intimacy

Podcasts

The B-Side – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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