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Cannes Review: Nitram Admirably Examines the Factors That Led to a Tragedy

The Port Arthur massacre, taking place April 28th, 1996 on the island state of Tasmania, is routinely commemorated as one of the darkest days in Australia’s po...

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Adapting Murakami with Drive My Car and the Sound of Silence

Relatively speaking, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is having a good 2021. Less than six months on from picking up the Silver Bear in Berlin for Wheel of Fortune and Fantas...

Cannes Review: The Year of the Everlasting Storm is a Creative Look at Globally Unifying Trauma

Anthology films like The Year of the Everlasting Storm, wherein a flurry of esteemed directors create short segments tethered to a common theme, lack a strong ...

Cannes Review: Three Floors is Nanni Moretti in Brash Soap-Operatic Mode

A car is knocked off-course on a quiet suburban street and crashes fatally into the front room of a well-furnished apartment. In the flurry of bricks and wall ...

U.S. Trailer for Tsai Ming-liang’s Days Sets the Mood

We have been crazy about Tsai Ming-liang's Days for quite a while—premiering at Berlin 2020, which will go down as the last gasp of film culture as we knew it ...

Midnight in the Switchgrass Review: Megan Fox Navigates a Generic Crime Drama

I think Bruce Willis' agent needs a raise—they are going above and beyond to make sure their client gets A-list billing no matter what project he takes. I'd es...

Jackass Forever Trailer: The Torture Never Stops

It was frightening, concerning, altogether thrilling when the Jackass gang performed stunts—or direct acts of masochism; six of one, half dozen of another, etc...

Adam Driver, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck Settle Scores in Trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel

Four years after All the Money in the World—two lifetimes by his current production rate—Ridley Scott has two coming down the pike this fall. One seems to be a...

The Best Films From the 2021 Cannes Film Festival

After a pandemic-forced cancellation last year, Cannes Film Festival made a triumphant return this year, featuring some premieres pegged for the 2020 edition a...

Cannes Review: Bruno Dumont’s France Playfully Breaks the Codes of Bourgeois Filmmaking

“My work is all about transfiguration… I'm not a naturalistic filmmaker at all.” So goes one of the most widely quoted statements by French auteur Bruno D...

News

First Look at Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Arrives as Five-Month Shoot Wraps

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

Trailers

Tom Green Turns the Camera on Himself in First Trailer for This Is The Tom Green Documentary

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

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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