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Hillbilly Elegy Review: Ron Howard’s Newest is a Melodramatic Mess

Falling squarely into the melodramatic Oscar-bait category that director Ron Howard revisits every now and again (A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon...

Manfred Kirchheimer on Restoring the Lost New York of Free Time

Between 1957 and 1960, Manfred Kirchheimer and his partner Walter Hess shot thousands of feet of 16mm film for a planned documentary about New York City. For y...

Céline Sciamma Shooting Portrait of a Lady on Fire Follow-Up Petite Maman

After the whirlwind festival and critical success of Portrait of a Lady on Fire (We called it one of our favorite films of 2019), Céline Sciamma is continuing ...

Abel Ferrara and Ethan Hawke Team for War Picture Zeros and Ones

Making what is by far the most reassuring news about our future to arrive in the past week, Abel Ferrara has cast Ethan Hawke in Zeros and Ones, a war picture ...

Trailer for Queer Yuletide Rom-Com Happiest Season Pairs Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis

Holiday films are often a dicey endeavor, but Clea Duvall’s yuletide romantic comedy, Happiest Season, should be a welcome exception to the characteristic lump...

Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet Adds Composer Eleni Karaindrou

The plurality and panoply of 2020's disasters has made it easy to forget there's a new Terrence Malick movie in post-production. (Something to say about this h...

Honey Bee Review: Sex Trafficking Drama Shows a Path to Break the Cycle of Abuse

It would be easy to dismiss Rama Rau's first non-documentary feature Honey Bee as another melodramatically grim look at the consequences of sex trafficking in ...

First Look at Ben Wheatley’s Horror Feature In The Earth, Acquired by NEON

It looks like Ben Wheatley will not be jumping solely from remake (Rebecca) to sequel (Tomb Raider 2) to... another sequel (The Meg 2). The director has secret...

Mank Review: David Fincher Misfires With Stagnant Tale of Hollywood History

Any number of undergrad papers will tell us David Fincher’s corpus concerns obsession. More pertinent to his endurance as the rare A-list American auteur is it...

Luca Guadagnino to Direct Brideshead Revisited Remake

With We Are Who We Are wrapping up, Luca Guadagnino is eying a new project and it looks like, after adding Scarface to his pipeline, it will be another remake....

News

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

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

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

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

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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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