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Venice Review: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco Burrows Down, Down, Down Towards an Epiphany

Caves… whence we came from––and for Italian auteur Michelangelo Frammartino’s latest work Il Buco––towards which we return. The fixation with caves and speleol...

Lady of the Manor Review: Supernatural Slacker Comedy Offers Juvenile Farce and Low Stakes

The directorial debut of brothers Justin and Christian Long (who also co-write) hinges on a pedophilia joke. Let's get that out in the open because you're eith...

TIFF Review: Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty Hands Jake Gyllenhaal the Phone in Solid American Remake

Only three years ago, Danish director Gustav Möller made The Guilty, a single-room thriller focused on an operator attempting to save a kidnapped woman. Met wi...

TIFF Review: Earwig is Gorgeous Gothic Horror in Search of a Story

Those who know Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s work will recognize a new film as an event. Having only made two features this century––2004’s Innocence and 2015’s Evol...

TIFF Review: Quickening Follows a Pakistani Canadian Teenager’s Search for Autonomy

Writer-director Haya Waseem's feature debut Quickening is not about a pregnancy. Knowing this is crucial enough that she opens the film with the definition of ...

TIFF Review: The Daughter is a Pregnancy Drama That Grows into a Psychological Thriller

The plan is simple but risky. Javier (Javier Gutiérrez) has worked at a juvenile delinquent center for two decades, interacting with all kinds of troubled teen...

TIFF Review: Jagged is a Rousing, Uncensored Look at Alanis Morissette’s Rise to Fame

It really is strange to look back almost 30 years and realize just how seminal Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill was to rock music. Being only thirteen at...

TIFF Review: Ste. Anne is an Atmospheric, Experimental Manitoban Odyssey

It's been four years since Renée (Rhéanne Vermette) left home without a word. Four years that her brother Modeste (Jack Theis) and his wife Elenore (Valerie Ma...

Exclusive Trailer for Bill Morrison’s The Village Detective: a song cycle Exhumes Cinema History

Following up one of this century’s greatest films, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison returns with The Village Detective: a song cycle, another ...

TIFF Review: With Sundown, Michel Franco Methodically Keeps His Audience Off-Balance

Writer-director Michel Franco throws the first curveball early during his latest film Sundown. We've already spent a bit of time with his quartet of European c...

News

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

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

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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