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Watch the First Two Clips from Claire Denis’ Stars at Noon

With a Hamaguchi-like approach to 2022, Claire Denis premiered her stellar, small-scale melodrama Both Sides of the Blade at Berlinale and now debuts a higher-...

Idris Elba Faces a Deathly Threat in First Trailer for Baltasar Kormákur’s Beast

From The Shallows to Crawl, the man (or woman, in those cases) vs. beast subgenre of thriller has had a new resurgence. Now, it's Everest and 2 Guns director B...

Cannes Review: Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave is a Formally Dazzling Love Story

“Congratulations… it’s a murder.” A backwards thing to celebrate? Not when you’re a droll insomniac detective who’s only happy (read: not miserable) when you’r...

Cannes Review: Funny Pages is a Darkly Hilarious, Absurdist Comic Book of a Film

The deranged lunatics populating Owen Kline’s absurdist, bleakly hilarious Funny Pages are all somewhat anachronistic; loners who gravitate around old things a...

Cannes Review: Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. Skewers Europe and Late Capitalism

Anyone looking to take the temperature of Cristian Mungiu’s first film in six long years should heed the words of Matthias, his most recent downtrodden protago...

MUBI Unveils June 2022 Lineup

MUBI's U.S. lineup for next month has been unveiled, including some essential recent releases, notably James Vaughan's Friends and Strangers, Radu Muntean's În...

Cannes Review: Moonage Daydream is a Radiant, Psychedelic Voyage Through David Bowie’s Soul

David Bowie’s tranquil voice seeps in over a black screen, waxing poetic philosophy about the infinity and complexity of time. Letters incrementally fade in on...

Cannes Review: Holy Spider Finds Ali Abbasi Reaching for Shock

Ali Abbasi’s Border, an adaptation of a short story by Let the Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist, put its director on the map as one fluent in a dark g...

Dinner in America Review: The Outcasts Get Their Day in Humorous, Heartfelt Comedy

Born from a decision to combine two aughts-era sketches that weren't quite working on their own, filmed in 2018 (stewarded with the help of Danny Leiner, who p...

Ali & Ava U.S. Trailer: Clio Barnard’s Acclaimed Drama Arrives in July

Following The Arbor, The Selfish Giant, and Dark River, British director Clio Barnard’s latest work is once again set in Bradford and this time focuses on a lo...

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

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

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

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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