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Paul Verhoeven Returns in First Trailer for Benedetta, Confirmed to Premiere at Cannes

At long last, a new film from Paul Verhoeven will premiere this year. Following his stellar Isabelle Huppert-led Elle, he's directed Benedetta, which tells the...

ND/NF Review: Gull is a Searing Korean Drama Unpacking the Trauma of Sexual Assault

For nearly 30 years, O-bok (Jeong Ae-hwa) has operated her own successful seafood stand inside a small Seoul fish market. The hard, punishing work has made it ...

The Human Factor Review: An Illuminating Look at the Messy, Evolving Middle East Peace Process

Arriving at an energizing time in American history (the arrival of a new administration looking to reset certain international priorities), Dror Moreh’s The Hu...

Memories of Murder on Criterion: Bong Joon-ho’s Haunting Masterwork of Controlled Chaos

In the procedural genre, where “bad cops” frequently reveal themselves to be law-enforcement geniuses, it remains shockingly refreshing to see a film where the...

Exclusive Trailer for Five Years North Examines the Lives of an Undocumented Teenager and ICE Officer

While Biden has sought to restrict the power of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka ICE), reversing a number of Trump's inhumane policies, it's hard to ge...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biopic Enfant Terrible Gets U.S. Trailer

An official selection of the Cannes That Didn't Happen, a new biopic exploring the life of one of the most prolific directors of all-time, German New Wave icon...

ND/NF Review: Dark Red Forest is a Rigorous Look at the Circular Nature of Sacrifice

Yarchen Monastery located on the Tibetan Plateau is home to 10,000 nuns at any one point in the year. As Dark Red Forest explains in the opening title cards, m...

ND/NF Review: All the Light We Can See is a Radical and Rhapsodic Mexican Odyssey

“Perhaps what is needed now is a cinema that is no longer Latin but something else,” said the Mexican director Pablo Escoto Luna in an interview for his short ...

Michel Hazanavicius Remaking the Japanese Hit One Cut of the Dead

Throughout his career, French director Michel Hazanavicius has been more interested in mining film history than forging original paths. After parody riffs on s...

ND/NF Review: Azor is a John le Carré-Esque Submersion into the Height of The Dirty War

An almost suffocating air of secrecy permeates Azor, a Swiss-Argentinean coproduction concerning the mutual suspicion and damnable complicity of patrician Nort...

News

Alice Winocour to Direct Angelina Jolie in Stitches

David Fincher’s Remastered Se7en Comes to IMAX to Kick Off 2025

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Trailers

Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott Clash in First Teaser for Bring Them Down

Tatsuya Nakadai Goes on Cold-Blooded Mission in Exclusive Trailer for New Restoration of Hideo Gosha’s Cash Calls Hell

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Find Pleasure in New Trailer for Babygirl

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

Appreciating a Pioneer: Pittsburgh Celebrates Queer Local Filmmaker Roger Jacoby with World Premiere Restorations

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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