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The Beta Test Trailer: Jim Cummings is a Hollywood Agent Who Enters a Downward Spiral

Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow writer-director-actor Jim Cummings is back with his latest feature The Beta Test (co-directed, co-written, and co-star...

BFI London Review: George Clooney’s The Tender Bar is an Affable But Formulaic Coming-of-Age Tale

When George Clooney jumped to directing he claimed to be motivated by the kinds of movies Hollywood doesn’t make anymore—screwball comedies, sober political th...

Watch a Two-Hour Conversation Between Bong Joon Ho and Ryusuke Hamaguchi

While the season of Ryusuke Hamaguchi formally began with last month's arrival of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Wife of a Spy (which he co-wrote), this week finally bring...

Mia Hansen-Løve on Bergman Island, Writing with Pleasure, and the Paradise of Fårö

One's life is their art as their art is their life—this is the axiom of Mia Hansen-Løve's career which, seemingly all of a sudden, is fifteen years and seven f...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 447 – No Time to Die (with Kyle Turner)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Kyle Turner to discuss Cary Fu...

John Carpenter on Scoring Halloween Kills, Videogames, and Basketball

Ever since his first non-soundtrack album, Lost Themes, released in 2015, legendary horror director John Carpenter has entered what could be called a second wi...

New Trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back Goes Behind Closed Doors

Earlier this year we called, without hesitation or compunction, Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back one of 2021's most-anticipated films. If the first traile...

Needle in a Timestack Review: Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr. Lead a Grounded Time Travel Romance

For a movie about a fated love (Leslie Odom Jr.'s Nick and Cynthia Erivo's Janine) being undermined by a jealous ex (Orlando Bloom's Tommy), I didn't expect to...

Busan Review: Farewell, My Hometown is a Hypnotic Portrait of Three Generations of Chinese Women

Chinese cinema is at a weird place. On the one hand, three of 2021's top five worldwide grossers are, as of writing, Chinese, so it’s doing more than okay on t...

NYFF Review: All About My Sisters is an Intimate, Affecting, and Brutal Look Behind China’s One-Child Policy

All About My Sisters, the nearly three-hour documentary debut from Wang Qiong, could be called All About My Sister. More specifically her sister Jin, who was a...

News

Exclusive Clip and Poster for Ramzi Bashour’s Sundance Premiere Hot Water Introduces Mother-Son Road Comedy

Sinners and One Battle After Another Lead 2026 Oscar Nominations

The Criterion Channel’s February Programming Features Stunts, Yearning, Black History, and the Oslo Trilogy

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Removal of the Eye Finds Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan Building a Family

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Spins a Feudal Mystery In First Teaser for Kokurojo

Michael Almereyda’s Nadja Rises from the Grave In Trailer for New Restoration

Reviews

Sundance Review: Buddy is a Funny, Irrevent Feature From the Creator of Too Many Cooks

Send Help Review: Sam Raimi, Rachel McAdams, and Dylan O’Brien Elevate a One-Note Script

Sundance Review: Once Upon a Time in Harlem is an Unearthed Treasure of Black History

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Godard and Griffith, Gerry, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie & More

New to Streaming: James Bond, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, The Smashing Machine & More

Interviews

“You’re Leaning Into the Ugliness”: Michael Bauman on Shooting One Battle After Another for Paul Thomas Anderson

“How Do I Keep Leonardo DiCaprio Safe?”: Breaking Down the Stunts of One Battle After Another

“I’m Not Seeing America Doing the Best Films”: Rodrigo Teixeira on Supporting Brian De Palma, James Gray, and Contemporary World Cinema

Podcasts

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

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