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Yorgos Lanthimos on the Caligula-Inspired Kinds of Kindness and Finding Hope in Humanity

Oh, to be one of the chosen. I guarantee this thought washes over every single person attending the Cannes Film Festival, at least at some point. It is a reali...

Cannes Review: Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez is an Audaciously Bad Dud

There’s a lot to look forward to in what has been branded a Mexican comedy-thriller musical from the Palme d’Or winner that brought us Dheepan, A Prophet, Rust...

Hayao Miyazaki Crafts The Boy and the Heron in First Trailer for Two-Hour Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

While much of the Cannes Classics lineup this year look far back in cinema history, a new documentary in the lineup captures a behind-the-scenes look at a rece...

Dakota Johnson Leads Tig Notaro’s Directorial Debut in First Trailer for Am I OK?

Premiering way back some 27 months ago at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, we've been curious what happened to Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s directorial f...

Longlegs Trailer: Maika Monroe is Looking for Nicolas Cage in Mystery Thriller

In an era of marketing where most studios just drop a full-length trailer on YouTube and in theaters, hoping viewers will be impressed enough to buy tickets ev...

Cannes Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is an Anthology Film of Dark if Slight Delights

This one is for the true Lanthimites, the Dogtooth sisters, the biscuit women, The Killing of a Sacred Deer heads, a film to which the callbacks are so abundan...

Cannes Review: Carson Lund’s Eephus is the Definitive Baseball Hangout Movie

If the perfect sports movie illuminates the fundamentals that make one fall in love with the game, there may be no better movie about baseball than Carson Lund...

Cannes Review: Oh, Canada Finds Paul Schrader Meditating on the Indignities of Dying

The cinema of Paul Schrader has always felt like a confessional, all those dark rooms and troubled men, the registered Swiftie's own tortured poets department....

Cannes Review: In Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Cinema and Family Beautifully Come Together

Writing on Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island in 2010, Anthony Lane whipped a quote from Umberto Eco: "Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, b...

Cannes Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a Garish Wonder to Behold

If you dove head first into Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, you would get a concussion. The filmmaker’s supposed opus––a glitzy, gargantuan, long-gestating...

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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