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Copshop Review: Joe Carnahan’s Crime Drama Proves Limitations May Be His Best Friend

It’d be hard to argue Joe Carnahan isn’t permanently stuck in 1997. Operating well past the point where dozens upon dozens of Tarantino knockoffs were inescapa...

TIFF Review: Tom Burke Disturbs Ruth Wilson’s Monotonous Life in True Things

Kate (Ruth Wilson) is listless. She works a dead-end workers' claim desk wherein her bosses are so redundant that they don't think they're doing their job unle...

Full Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story Dances Through 1950s NYC

With it being touted as the year of movie musicals, the one film that has yet to premiere in this category is Steven Spielberg's West Side Story. We had the vi...

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...

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

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

Trailers

The Uprising Trailer: Andrew Garfield Leads a Rebellion for Paul Greengrass

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

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

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

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

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