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Cannes Review: The Apprentice is a Deep-Dive Diss of Donald Trump and the American Soul

For a biopic about Donald Trump, The Apprentice is surprisingly concerned with other things. The film has exactly what you might expect and somehow a curiosity...

Cannes Review: Renate Reinsve Proves Brilliant in Halfdan Ullmann Tønde’s Debut Armand

How is a child’s life different from that of adults today? What is it like growing up around stimuli, in a world that is always-online, and with varying degree...

A Vittorio De Sica Masterwork is Restored in New Trailer for Shoeshine

While certainly best-known for Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica's vast, varied body of work is worth diving into. This June, those in NYC can experience quite...

A Mystery Unfolds In First Trailer for Alain Guiraudie’s Cannes Premiere Misericordia

The Cannes crush can be so unforgiving. This year's case in point: Misericordia has premiered to relatively little notice despite being the latest by the great...

MUBI’s June 2024 Lineup Features Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Abbas Kiarostami, Hirokazu Kore-eda & More

MUBI has unveiled next month’s streaming lineup, featuring recent releases such as Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster, Tynan DeLong's Dad & Step-Dad, and Rachel L...

Cannes Review: Limonov. The Ballad Finds Ben Whishaw Leading a Boisterous Biopic

At a wake for the murder of Russian journalist and activist Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead in 2006 in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow, French writ...

First Look at Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine Starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt

Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? For the last decade-plus (at least post-Pain & Gain), Dwayne Johnson has been serving up four-quadrant blockbuster s...

Jeff Nichols Will Adapt Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris

When news broke last year of John Hillcoat adapting Blood Meridian, I had expressed some hope for similar treatment bestowed upon Cormac McCarthy's final novel...

Cannes Review: Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao Speed Through 20 Years in Caught by the Tides

Jia Zhangke's is often a cinema of déjà vu: "We’re again in the northern Chinese city of Datong," Giovanni Marchini Camia wrote for Sight and Sound back in 201...

Cannes Review: Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 Begins Kevin Costner’s Magnum Opus with Sweep and Grandeur

Scale, sweep, or schadenfreude; whatever you might be seeking in the films of Kevin Costner, you tend to walk away with the vistas. Think of the golden plains ...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Trailers

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

Features

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Interviews

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

Podcasts

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

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

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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