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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...

Cannes Review: In Front of Your Face is an Emotional Step Forward for Hong Sangsoo

By evidence, Hong Sangsoo may never make an Oki’s Movie or Hill of Freedom-type work again; our maestro is shooting for bigger emotional game. It’s fascinating...

Cannes Review: A Hero Is Asghar Farhadi’s Return to Form

In A Hero, the discovery of a bag of gold coins sets the scene for a knotted Bressonian morality tale. The director is Asghar Farhadi, a filmmaker who has spen...

Cannes Review: Gaspar Noé Returns with the Devastating and Sincere Vortex

Stories from multiple perspectives have been onscreen at least since Rashomon, but even the great Akira Kurosawa might have found something to like in the new ...

Cannes Review: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton Make a Brilliant Union with Memoria

"Memoria" translates simply to "memory" in Spanish. The four syllables were also truly promising some resumption of a post-pandemic high-end cinema for us obse...

Vortex Clip & Poster: Gaspar Noé Wants to Make You Cry in His “First Film for All Audiences”

In a Cannes surprise, it was revealed that Gaspar Noé had a new film set to premiere at the festival. The Enter the Void director shot Vortex over twenty days ...

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

Eephus Trailer: The Perfect Baseball Movie Arrives This March

A Pair of Michael Roemer Gems Find New Life in Exclusive Trailers for Dying and Pilgrim, Farewell, Opening Friday at Film Forum

Seven Veils Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Mounts an Opera for Atom Egoyan

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

20 Must-See Films Premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

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

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

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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