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Bad Boys: Ride or Die Review: Fourthquel Steals from the Best to Deliver Decent Fare

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a film about retribution and redemption. Not just on screen, but in execution. After their last attempt at a blockbuster was shelved i...

Exclusive Trailer for Chronicles of a Wandering Saint: SXSW Winner and Independent Spirit Awards Nominee Arrives This Month

Accomplishing the rare feat of being nominated for a trio of Independent Spirit Awards (Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, and Best Cinematography) bef...

New to Streaming: Hit Man, Godzilla Minus One, Paul Schrader, Tsai Ming-liang & 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...

Richard Linklater on Sex, Murder, Hit Man, and the Infantilization of Culture

There's always the risk of misusing 15 tightly mandated minutes on a director's junket day. One imagines it increases twofold when the subject's been of intere...

Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai Receives 4K Restoration; Watch the New Trailer

Holding off on my first Seven Samurai watch since 9th grade proved wise. A 4K restoration overseen by Toho Co. Ltd. will arrive stateside next month courtesy J...

Exclusive Trailer for Tribeca Premiere Emergent City Chronicles a Changing Brooklyn

Any major change or innovation in a large area of a city usually means a certain population is getting left in the dust. World premiering at Tribeca Festival o...

The Watchers Review: Ishana Night Shyamalan’s Debut is Competent but Uninspired Folk Horror

If anything could revive the worn-out nepotism discourse, it would be this summer's horror offerings. In August we have M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming thriller,...

Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme Adds Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe, Benedict Cumberbatch, Charlotte Gainsbourg & More

Newly minted Oscar winner Wes Anderson has now wrapped production on his next feature, The Phoenician Scheme, in Germany. We've known the story of a family and...

Exclusive Trailer for Hummingbirds: Berlinale Winner is a Vibrant Coming-of-Age Self-Portrait

A vibrant coming-of-age documentary and winner of the Berlinale Generation Grand Jury Prize, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía "Beba" Contreras' Humming...

This Closeness Review: Kit Zauhar’s Relationship Drama Hits Close to Home

It’s true that This Closeness, by rising writer-director-star Kit Zauhar, may be too small in scale for some. But a recent trip to New York where this writer s...

News

David Fincher’s Remastered Se7en Comes to IMAX to Kick Off 2025

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Trailers

Tatsuya Nakadai Goes on Cold-Blooded Mission in Exclusive Trailer for New Restoration of Hideo Gosha’s Cash Calls Hell

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Find Pleasure in New Trailer for Babygirl

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

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

Appreciating a Pioneer: Pittsburgh Celebrates Queer Local Filmmaker Roger Jacoby with World Premiere Restorations

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & 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 – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

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

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

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