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Trailer for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Brings Berlin Winner Stateside

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is certainly one of the greatest festival winners in recent years—a designation I don't assign just (just) because of the name. ...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Review: A Breathlessly Paced, Unpretentious, and Goofy Blockbuster

Trauma, prison reform, closeted homosexuality—all subjects given their due in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the second chapter in the continuing saga of Eddie B...

Posterized October 2021: The French Dispatch, Titane, The Velvet Underground & More

Tony Soprano. Eddie Brock. James Bond. Edgar Wright. There are some big names coming to the big screen this month. If that's not an indication of Holly...

NYFF Review: Saul Williams Burns a Vibrant Hole Into the Future with Neptune Frost

With his directorial debut, poet-musician-actor Saul Williams has no desire to hold back. Neptune Frost, a technology-focused musical set in Rwanda co-directed...

NYFF Review: Kira Kovalenko’s Unclenching the Fists is a Bleak and Provocative Drama

There are clenched fists aplenty in Unclenching the Fists. Stuck in a former mining town high in the mountains of North Ossetia, its characters are as weighed ...

NYFF Review: Futura Cannot Escape the Past

Teenagers think about the future without hesitation. They worry about what jobs they’ll get, where they’ll go to school, who they will marry, who they might sl...

The Souvenir Part II Trailer: Joanna Hogg Returns with One of the Best Sequels of All-Time

While it is a warranted opinion to bemoan the endless output of sequels, an exception can certainly be made for Joanna Hogg's follow-up The Souvenir Part II––n...

Gaspar Noé on Facing Death, Casting Dario Argento, and the Hypnosis of Vortex

It’s August at the Locarno Film Festival and Gaspar Noé is in a philosophical mood: “In life there are not two doors. There is just one door. There is an entra...

Exclusive Restoration Trailer for Robert Mugge’s Deep Blues Takes a Music-Filled Journey Through the South

An official selection at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Mugge's music documentary Deep Blues has now been restored and is arriving this fall. In 1990,...

Arrebato Review: Newly Restored Spanish Horror Lives Up to Cult Classic Status

It's not until heroin is mentioned that Ana Turner (Cecilia Roth) stops and reconsiders the offer to partake by boyfriend José Sirgado (Eusebio Poncela). She's...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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