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First Trailer for Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s The Silent Twins Tells a Strange True Story

After breaking out with her fantasy horror musical The Lure, Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska helmed her English-language debut with The Silent Twins, a Ca...

Isabelle Fuhrman Returns in First Trailer for Orphan: First Kill

While Jaume Collet-Serra has excelled in providing a genuine Hitchcockian vision to B-movie concepts in the last decade before getting sucked into the Disney m...

KVIFF Review: Corsage Gives Vicky Krieps Her Best Role Since Phantom Thread

In Corsage, Vicky Krieps delivers a performance brimming with salty despondency and inner life. Gasping for breath in the garment from which this film takes it...

First Look at Shia LaBeouf in Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio

Continuing his prolific, run-and-gun style of filmmaking, we reported about a year ago that Abel Ferrara was following his pandemic thriller Zeros and Ones wit...

Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane Gets 4K Restoration, New Trailer

Lodge Kerrigan's Keane has languished on DVD for the better part of 20 years—exactly the environment that makes it the rare modern(ish) film we might call a cu...

Spin Me Round: Alison Brie & Aubrey Plaza Encounter Fun and Chaos in Italy

This August is the month of Aubrey Plaza. Just a week after her crime drama Emily the Criminal arrives in theaters, her comedy Spin Me Round will debut. The SX...

She Will Review: A Surreal, Fragmented Pursuit of Vengeance

While initially thought to be vanity, Veronica Ghent's (Alice Krige) cold cruelty towards her nurse Desi (Kota Eberhardt) and stubborn defiance about her recov...

First Trailer for Aleksandr Sokurov’s Locarno Premiere Fairytale

One of the major titles premiering at the Locarno Film Festival next month is the latest feature from Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov (Russian Ark, Mother a...

We Met In Virtual Reality Trailer: Groundbreaking Sundance Documentary Explores Digital Connections

Breaking ground as the first feature-length documentary to be filmed entirely in virtual reality, Joe Hunting's We Met In Virtual Reality was a highlight at Su...

KVIFF Review: De Humani Corporis Fabrica is an Astonishing Adventure into the Human Body

A recent episode of Amazon's The Boys showed a superhero shrink to the size of an uncooked grain of rice and walk into the shaft of his lover's penis. The epis...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

The Gas Station Attendant Review: A Compelling If Formally Unsure Immigrant Story

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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