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Sophie Jones Review: Jessie Barr’s Personal Debut Portrays Coming-of-Age with Great Care

Sophie Jones, the creation from co-writing cousins Jessica and Jessie Barr, excels when focused on the eponymous high schooler’s detachment from friends and fa...

Berlin Review: Denis Côté’s Social Hygiene is an Unclean Blast of Eccentricity

An aura of pure eccentricity billows off the new film by Québécois provocateur Denis Côté, like a fug of stale-smelling nitrous oxide. Akin to his prior work o...

Berlin Review: The White Fortress Blends Horror and Fairy Tale with a Bittersweet Touch

The line between fairy tale and horror proves a thin one in Igor Drljaca's The White Fortress thanks to the differing perspectives of young love in Sarajevo. W...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Entrancing Locarno Winner The Fever Explores Indigenous Life in the Brazilian Amazon

Having first covered The Fever back in when it premiered at Locarno in 2019––where director Maya Da-Rin picked up the FIPRESCI Prize and Regis Myrupu won Best ...

Berlin Review: Natural Light is a Bleak and Beguiling WWII Drama

For his first narrative feature Natural Light, Hungarian filmmaker Dénes Nagy (who has worked in documentary since as far back as 2008) follows in the footstep...

Berlin Review: La MIF (The FAM) Takes a Fractured, Authentic Look at a Safe Space for Young Women

The big draw to Fred Baillif's fictional look inside a residential care facility housing teenage girls is the fact that he refuses to pretend his setting is an...

Dasha Nekrasova on Her Directorial Debut The Scary of Sixty-First, Jeffrey Epstein, Psychological Horror, and New Forms

As one half of the incendiary and oddly prescient Red Scare podcast, the Belarusian-born, New York-based actress, writer, and (now) filmmaker Dasha Nekrasova o...

Following Steven Spielberg, Marco Bellocchio Now Eyes Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Drama

A few years ago, after Ready Player One completed shooting, it was looking like Steven Spielberg was set to begin production on The Kidnapping of Edgardo Morta...

Raya and the Last Dragon Review: An Energetic, Beautiful Stepping Stone for Hollywood Animation

As Raya (Kelly Marie Tran) states during her expository prologue to Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada's Raya and the Last Dragon (written by Qui Nguyen and Ade...

Watch Sean Baker’s New Short Film for Khaite, Shot by Sean Price Williams

As we eagerly await Sean Baker's The Florida Project follow-up Red Rocket, which was recently picked up for distribution in North America by A24, the filmmaker...

News

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

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

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

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Film Stage’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

New to Streaming: A Different Man, The Outrun, My Old Ass, Used Cars & 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 – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

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

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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