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Sebastian Trailer: A Journalist Explores Sex Work for Research in Sundance Drama

Premiering earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival, Sebastian marks the sophomore feature from writer/director Mikko Mäkelä (whose debut was the 2017 gay r...

A Quiet Place: Day One Review: A Tender, Uneven Franchise Origin Story of Existential Despair

For a movie so deeply focused on sound, there’s a bit of an arrhythmia to A Quiet Place: Day One. Michael Sarnoski directs his own screenplay, dabbling within ...

A Realistic Coup of the U.S. Government is Attempted in First Trailer for War Game

While thankfully the January 6 insurrection wasn't successful in the intended coup of the United States government, the threats posed play out to another, far ...

Here Trailer: Robert Zemeckis Crafts a Single-Perspective Epic Spanning Centuries

It was just yesterday we learned Robert Zemeckis was taking another ambitious formal gamble in his career with Here. His adaptation of Richard McGuire’s comic,...

MaXXXine Review: Ti West Takes a Self-Aware Victory Lap

If knives weren’t already being sharpened for Ti West prior to MaXXXine––the third installment in his X series of exploitation throwbacks––they likely will be ...

Garrett Bradley’s Time Gets Sequel with Time II: Unfinished Business: Watch the First Trailer

As we near the halfway point of the decade thus far, there's still no better documentary to arrive than one that premiered in the first month of the 2020s. Gar...

Robert Zemeckis’ Here Takes Place from a Single POV for Entire Runtime

Update: Watch the first trailer here. Writing about Robert Zemeckis' Here in our 2024 preview, we noted the potential between source material and director: ...

Angela Schanelec on Music, Soundscapes, and the Eternal Relevance of Myths

Angela Schanelec’s cinema is one of details. It has not always been that way, though, or at least not so apparently; her early films, formally rigorous, with s...

Hugh Grant Torments Mormons in First Trailer for Heretic

After breaking out with A Quiet Place, in which they created the story and scripted, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods had far less success with their dinosaur thrill...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 540 – Hit Man (with Brendan Hodges)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Brendan Hodges to discuss Richard Linklater's Hit Man. Enter our gi...

News

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2024 Includes Misericordia, Evil Does Not Exist, and Trap

Trailer for Palestine’s Oscar Entry From Ground Zero + Exclusive Poster Giveaway

MUBI’s December 2024 Lineup Includes Dahomey, Bird, The People’s Joker & More

Trailers

Sujo Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry From Identifying Features Team Arrives Next Week

Jacques Demy’s Masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Gets New Trailer for 4K Restoration

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

Reviews

Thessaloniki Review: Holy Electricity is a Directorial Debut That Finds Substance in Unusual Places

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Features

New to Streaming: Here, Conclave, Eureka, Memoir of a Snail, Beatles ’64 & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

Interviews

The Seed of the Sacred Fig Director Mohammad Rasoulof on Filming in Secret and the Repression of the Iranian Republic

Gaucho Gaucho Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw on Mythology, Compositions, and Community

Rodrigo Prieto on His Directorial Debut, Martin Scorsese’s Snubs, and Taylor Swift’s Feature Debut

Podcasts

The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

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