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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...

TIFF 2021 Adds New Films by Zhang Yimou, Michael Pearce, and More

Taking place September 9-18, Toronto International Film Festival will feature a mix of in-person (thankfully now easier for U.S. citizens, due to the recent an...

Cannes Review: With The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes Crafts a Visually Harmonious Documentary

If you told people in 1967 that Andy Warhol’s house band just released one of the most revered rock albums of all-time, they would ask what they're called, and...

Settlers Review: Sci-Fi Thriller Leaves its Audience in the Dark

The thing about withholding plot information is that you must generally divulge that which you've held back at some point. To simply ignore that your audience ...

Cousins Review: Three Eras Interweave in Inspiring Māori Drama

They only spent one summer together as children, but the connection they share from blood and heritage ultimately lasts a lifetime, whether they know it could ...

MUBI Unveils August 2021 Lineup

Closing out the summer, MUBI has unveiled their August 2021 lineup, kicking off most fittingly with Brett Story's acclaimed recent documentary The Hottest Augu...

Cannes Review: Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or Winner Titane is a Transgressive Blast of Energy

Titane begins not with a whimper but a cacophony: a deafening engine rev; the crash as car meets concrete; then the image of a girl in a horrific head-brace, l...

Cannes Review: Where Is Anne Frank is an Imaginative Yet Trite Animation

The Israeli director Ari Folman rose to international fame at Cannes, where his feted Waltz With Bashir was a rare animated film that competed for the Palme d’...

Cannes Review: Andrea Arnold Examines Animal Personality in the Lo-Fi, Lyrical Cow

Andrea Arnold, director of stylized social-realist dramas like Red Road and Fish Tank, takes a drastic turn with an in-your-face documentary about a farmyard c...

Flee Trailer: Sundance Winner is One of the Year’s Best Animated Films

A highlight at this year's mostly online Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Flee picked up the Grand Jury Prize and now ahead of...

News

Berlinale 2025 Adds Films by Richard Linklater, Radu Jude, Hong Sangsoo, Michel Franco & More

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

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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