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Berlin Review: Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet Wines and Dines on Experimental Music

Flux Gourmet is arguably the first instance where Peter Strickland, the British genre specialist who’s always seemed inches away from a real career breakthroug...

Berlin Review: Geographies of Solitude Takes a Sensory Look at an Island of One

Considering the Wikipedia page for Sable Island states a population of zero (minus the six-to-twenty-five rotating personnel team from the Meteorological Servi...

Berlin Review: Robe of Gems is a Harrowing Tale of Three Women with a Poetic Sense of Connection

I made the mistake of worrying about plot while watching Natalia López's feature directorial debut Robe of Gems. The synopsis dares you to worry with its talk ...

Berlin Review: Quentin Dupieux’s Incredible But True Takes a Playful Twist on an Enduring Sci-Fi Trope

In Being John Malkovich, an entire half-hour passes by before John Cusack’s hangdog puppeteer peaks behind his filing cabinet and finds a tunnel to another man...

Stream Cliff Martinez’s Kimi Score

Secret's out: Kimi is great, perhaps Steven Soderbergh's best-oiled machine in more than a decade. (Man's prolific and consistent in such equal ratio I won't o...

Benediction Trailer: Terence Davies Captures the Life of English Poet Siegfried Sassoon

After a flurry of films with 2011's The Deep Blue Sea, 2015's Sunset Song, and 2016's A Quiet Passion, British director Terence Davies is finally back this yea...

New to Streaming: Kimi, Fabian: Going to the Dogs, Red Rocket, The Woman Who Ran and More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week's selections below and past r...

Berlin Review: François Ozon’s Peter von Kant is a Slavish Fassbinder Reimagining

From the sure evidence of his filmography—and, yes, his legendarily turbulent private life—Rainer Werner Fassbinder should be quite tickled by the thought of a...

Bigbug Review: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Returns with a Limp Futuristic Social Satire

Jean-Pierre Jeunet put his stamp across the 1990s and 2000s with a unique blend of zany personality, thoughtful character portraits, and sharp, multi-dimension...

Andrew Dominik Confirms Blonde is NC-17 Version of the Marilyn Monroe Story: “It’s a Demanding Movie”

Update: Variety reports that Netflix won't be bringing any of their films to Cannes, including Blonde. See the original story below. At long last, 2022 look...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

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

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

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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