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Venice Review: Bones and All is a Bloody Horror Romance That Rips Your Heart Out

The last narrative feature Luca Guadagnino directed was a 2018 remake of Suspiria, and his angle was vicious—a dark, mangled body horror so carnal it leaves th...

Venice Review: Athena is Romain Gavras’ Brutal, Breathless Magnum Opus

Is reinvention overrated? For at least 45 minutes, Athena (named for the fictional area where the film is based as well as the goddess of wisdom and war) threa...

Venice Review: Master Gardener Closes Out Paul Schrader’s Great Contemporary Trilogy

There is a paradox at the heart of Master Gardener. In their respective worlds—one of abstinence and iconography; the other of money and risk—priests and gambl...

Venice Review: A Couple is a Low-Key, Personal Experiment for Frederick Wiseman

This year’s Venice Film Festival competition has not been short on bloat. Todd Field, Noah Baumbach, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu all turned in sprawling works th...

Venice Review: Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio is a Purposefully Oblique, Mysteriously Murky Religious Drama

Something has happened in Abel Ferrara’s working life that aligns him with Stanley Kubrick’s later career journey. The latter shot all his features from 2001 o...

TÁR Concept Album, Featuring Hildur Guðnadóttir and Cate Blanchett, Will Arrive in October

With Todd Field's first film in sixteen years finally arriving in just about a month, the release is thankfully getting a few more bells and whistles than your...

Venice Review: The Boisterously Beautiful Bardo Finds Iñárritu Navel-Gazing Into the Abyss

Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is, as many artists like to imagine themselves, a disheveled-genius type. Once an independent journalist in his hometown o...

Loving Highsmith Review: Ripley Writer Revealed in Personal Documentary

"My life is a chronicle of unbelievable mistakes." So writes Patricia Highsmith, the acclaimed author of Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, The Talented ...

12 Films to See in September

After perusing our massive, 60-film, two-part fall preview, there shouldn't be too many surprises on our first monthly highlights of the season. While Septembe...

New to Streaming: Funny Pages, Studio Ghibli, James Wong Howe, Fritz Lang, and 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...

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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