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Cannes Review: Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun is a Vibrant Debut Brimming with Inner Life

At around the halfway point of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere a young girl and her distant father jumped into a swimming pool. The characters' relationship was frau...

Cannes Review: Alice Winocour’s Bataclan-Inspired Revoir Paris is a Heartfelt if Formulaic Drama

It takes a few seconds for Mia’s life to unravel in Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris, then a whole lifetime to stitch it back together. Up until a fateful Novembe...

Exclusive Trailer for Alice Diop’s We Presents a Panoramic Portrait of Contemporary Paris

One of the major documentary filmmakers to emerge this past decade is the Paris-born Alice Diop, subject of a recent Film at Lincoln Center retrospective and w...

Exclusive Trailer for Lynne Sachs’ Swerve Brings Poetry to Elmhurst, Queens

Following her feature documentary Film About a Father Who, director Lynne Sachs has set her sights on a market and playground in Elmhurst, Queens with her new ...

Fire of Love Trailer: A Volcanologist Couple Faces Awe-Inspiring Danger

One of the most acclaimed films to premiere at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year is Sara Dosa's Fire of Love, which finds Miranda July narrating the lif...

15 Films to See in June

The long-awaited return of beloved auteurs, new discoveries, decades-in-the-works passion projects, festival winners, and beyond are among June's major offerin...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 474 – Top Gun: Maverick (with Kendra James)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Robyn Bahr, and Bill Graham are joined by Kendra James to discuss Joseph...

Ralph Fiennes Cooks Up a Surprise for Anya Taylor-Joy in First Trailer for The Menu

When it comes to late 2022 releases, we have yet to get even a peek at most of them, but Searchlight Pictures is out of the gate with an early appetizer for on...

Cannes Review: Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up Examines the Meditative Joy of Creation

Two years after First Cow, which we collectively named our favorite film of 2020, Kelly Reichardt returns with a work like a line drawing: neat, lean, evocativ...

The Score Review: Johnny Flynn and Will Poulter Lead a Heist Film with a Musical Twist

As Troy (Will Poulter) muses on the car ride out-of-town to meet with "professional criminals" (he and Johnny Flynn's Mike realize they're amateurs at best, st...

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

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

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Reviews

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

Promised Sky Review: A Heartbreaking Drama That Hits Home

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

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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