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Materialists Review: A Cynical Rom-Com Missing the Right Ingredients

Materialists is a film with a classic screwball setup: a young, beautiful matchmaker meets the charming, rich man of her dreams on the same night she runs into...

Emulsion Episode Seven: Is Tom Cruise Evil?

The release of a new Tom Cruise film is less about the film than it is about Tom Cruise. Ceaseless junket and red-carpet interviews with supposed journalists w...

NYC Weekend Watch: Barry Lyndon, John Cazale, A Theater Near You, Bleak Week & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaThe Matrix Reloaded and In the Spirit both play on 35mm this Friday, with the la...

Tribeca Review: The Scout Finds Comedy in Monotony

For her debut, writer-director Paula Andrea González-Nasser chose to explore an oft-forgotten role in the filmmaking process: the location scout. The Scout fol...

Tribeca Review: Our Hero Balthazar is an Uncompromising Satire About a Real Crisis

Oscar Boyson’s debut feature Our Hero Balthazar is a big swing that mostly works: an uncompromising satire about the crisis facing young men in America. Mascul...

New to Streaming: Twin Peaks, Misericordia, Bonjour Tristesse, The Heirloom & 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...

Tribeca Review: Dragonfly is a Haunting Mike Leigh-Inspired Thriller

A challenging film to both review and market without spoiling, Paul Andrew Williams’ Dragonfly largely succeeds because it never quite telegraphs where it’s go...

Peter Deming on a Life with David Lynch Through Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks, and Unrecorded Night

For as singular, unprecedented, non-pareil an artist David Lynch may have been, his complete vision would be achieved with a small band of trusted collaborator...

Meeting with Pol Pot Review: Rithy Panh’s Languid, Incendiary Cautionary Tale

In 1978, journalist Elizabeth Becker was one of three westerners granted permission to enter Cambodia while under the communist rule of the Khmer Rouge. “We we...

East of Wall Trailer: Kate Beecroft’s Sundance Hit Arrives This August

One of the breakout premieres at Sundance Film Festival this year, Kate Beecroft's East of Wall stars Tabatha Zimiga as a version of herself, running a ranch i...

News

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Jessica Chastain Begins a Dangerous Affair in First Trailer for Michel Franco’s Dreams

Reviews

Is This Thing On? Review: Bradley Cooper’s Gentle Film About Marital Strife

Marty Supreme Review: Timothée Chalamet Reaches a New Pinnacle in Josh Safdie’s Propulsive Drama

Cover-Up Review: The Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Features

New to Streaming: One Battle After Another, It Was Just an Accident, Song to Song, The Running Man & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Twin Peaks, Breezy, Gus Van Sant, Ken Jacobs & More

The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2026: Part Two

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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