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Things Heard & Seen Review: A Haunted House Thriller With A Lot On Its Mind

It is truly incredible how durable the "haunted house" structure has revealed itself to be over time. Case in point: Things Heard & Seen, written and direc...

U.S. Trailer for Christian Petzold’s Undine Brings Mythic Romance

If we were to rank the selections of our summer movie preview, there's no doubt that Christian Petzold's Undine would be sitting at the top. The German master'...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: David Cronenberg, Tobe Hooper, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Monte Hellman & More

Filmmaking-related books released in the last few months cover a head-spinningly vast collection of topics and directors. Our latest swim in the literary water...

ND/NF Review: Rock Bottom Riser Fascinatingly Explores Humanity’s Self-Destructive Relationship with Nature

Images of slowly cascading liquids and particles are pivotal to Rock Bottom Riser, an experimental documentary that covers subjects as far-reaching as nautical...

ND/NF Review: Bipolar is a Disorienting Road Movie with the Off-Kilter Vibe of Early Jarmusch

Queena Li’s Bipolar embraces the quirky uncertainties and randomness of a road movie like few other recent films. Initially, the jarring jumps in logic and tim...

David Cronenberg Returns to Crimes Of The Future as Summer Shoot is Set for His Next Film

Update #2: Production has begun on the film, with Tanaya Beatty, Nadia Litz, and Yorgos Karamichos joining the cast, Deadline reports. “As we begin filming Cri...

Orson Welles Recounts Timely History in Exclusive Restoration Trailer for New Deal for Artists

Orson Welles thankfully didn't live to see a world in which conversation around his work has devolved into Tomatometer-related banter, but as an extensive sear...

U.S. Trailer for Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Charts a Changing China

Returning to documentary feature filmmaking for the first time since 2010's I Wish I Knew, Jia Zhangke's Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue charts a changing...

Here Are the Young Men Review: Stylistic Teen Debauchery Run Amok

Mixing together the debauchery of Trainspotting with the youthful disaffection of Skins (the British version, of course), director Eoin Macken’s film Here Are ...

40 Films to See This Summer

Considering how dire last summer was for theatrical exhibition and the perpetually-in-flux release calendar, we opted to forgo our standard preview of the seas...

News

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

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

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

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

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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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