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Sundance Review: Take Me Home is a Heartbreaking Indictment of a Failing Social Safety Net

Working with her sister Anna—a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a developmental disability—director Liz Sargent’s sensitive drama Take Me Home is both witty and...

Rotterdam Review: Tycoon is a Staggering Portrait of a City on Fire

In a stray moment during Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon, a young man says he stopped complaining to his landlord about the cockroaches invading his L.A. flat les...

NYC Weekend Watch: Nadja, Seoul After Dark, Tenement Stories & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMMichael Almereyda's vampire film Nadja debuts in a long-overdue 4K restoration that play...

Sundance Review: Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Will Sweep You Off Your Feet

In dance, you have to lead with confidence. Your partner looks to you for guidance, and they require you to look back at them responsively, to move instinc...

Love Conquers Death in First Trailer for Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover

A familair presence on the indie film scene in Strawberry Mansion, Booger, The Heirloom, Measures for a Funeral, Honey Bunch, and more, Canadian actress and fi...

Exit 8 Trailer: Genki Kawamura’s Acclaimed Videogame Adaptation Arrives in April

Mario, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter aren't the only videogame adaptations hittting theaters this year. Genki Kawamura's Exit 8, based on th...

“Images Are Dead”: Oliver Laxe on Sirāt and Spirituality

Note: This interview was originally published in 2025. Sirat opens on February 6, 2026. As music thumps across the desert landscape of Morocco's Atlas Mount...

Pillion Review: A Provocative, Funny, and Touching Anti-Romance

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Pillion opens in theaters on February 6. It wouldn’t be Cannes without a...

Sirat Review: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Trance Is a Grand, Adventurous Achievement

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Sirat opens on February 6, 2026. For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver...

The President’s Cake Review: All the Ingredients of a Breakthrough Directorial Debut

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The President's Cake opens in theaters on February 6. Among the best thi...

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

The Uprising Trailer: Andrew Garfield Leads a Rebellion for Paul Greengrass

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

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

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

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

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

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