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Exclusive Trailer for the Venice Premiere Detours Charts Moscow’s Urban Landscape

It's hard to believe the fall festival season is right around the corner: Venice and Telluride kick off next week, followed swiftly by Toronto, NYFF, and more....

Penélope Cruz Has an Identity Crisis in U.S. Trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers

It's not at the scandalous level of its poster—so long as Instagram doesn't have anything to say about it—but a Pedro Almodóvar preview gets eyes, lactation or...

Paolo Sorrentino Gets Personal in U.S. Trailer for The Hand of God

An especially prolific few years for Paolo Sorrentino have yielded a return to roots—so's the word on The Hand of God, a Netflix-backed production set in the d...

Together Review: Stephen Daldry Tackles Trauma in Real Time, For Better or Worse

Right off the bat, let's acknowledge something: making a movie about the COVID-19 pandemic during the COVID-19 pandemic feels like too much too fast. That said...

Fantasia Review: Baby, Don’t Cry is an Immigrant Tale Told with Cathartic, Experimental Poetry

Baby (Zita Bai) is a seventeen-year-old Chinese immigrant surviving on the fringes of her community. She's a voyeur—always with camera on to capture the dialog...

Fantasia Review: Lee Won-tae’s Twisty Thriller The Devil’s Deal Puts an Honest Man Through the Wringer

There's no way anybody beats Jeon Hae-woong (Cho Jin-woong) in a hometown election—everyone loves him. Walking down the street means shaking hands and bowing t...

Fantasia Review: Baby Money is a Race Against Time and Greed

The job is simple. Break into an old couple's home in the middle of the night, skulk around while they sleep to procure a purple metal box, and then just wait ...

Fantasia Review: The Sadness Imagines a Relatable Nihilistic Pandemic Hellscape

Trigger warnings accompanying The Sadness at the Fantasia International Film Festival are no joke. The acts of violence writer-director Rob Jabbaz has his char...

Fantasia Review: Agnes is Not Your Mother’s Exorcism Movie

Agnes begins how any other possession film might––with the discovery of a demonic presence. When the convent of Saint Theresa fear there’s evil inhabiting the ...

Locarno Review: Public Toilet Africa is a Rebellious, Picaresque Road Trip Through Ghana

Impeccably dressed, eyes shielded by sunglasses and arms dangling from the windows of their Nissan pickup, Ama (Briggitte Appiah) and Sadiq (David Klu) breeze ...

News

First Look at Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden Starring Virginie Efira

Justine Triet Sets Next Feature with Fonda Starring Mia Goth, Andrew Scott, Frank Dillane & More

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

Trailers

A Scenario Multiplies In First Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s The Day She Returns

Exclusive Trailer for Saša Vajda’s Berlinale Premiere The Lights, They Fall

Scare Out Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Spy Thriller Starring Jackson Yee Arrives This Month

Reviews

Sundance Review: Shame and Money is a Pressure Cooker Drama About the Crushing Demands of Capitalism

Sundance Review: Jaripeo is an Immersive Portrait of Mexico’s Queer Rodeo Culture

Sundance Review: Ghost in the Machine Lays Out the Evils on Which A.I. is Built

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Short Cuts, Strange Days, Silent Hill & More

New to Streaming: Sundance 2026, Peter Hujar’s Day, Ella McCay & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

The Love That Remains Director Hlynur Pálmason on the Preciousness of Time and Spontaneous Filmmaking

One Battle After Another Production Designer Florencia Martin on Building Paul Thomas Anderson’s Detailed World

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

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 175 – Rachel McAdams

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

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

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