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A Useful Ghost Trailer: Thailand’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Arrives This January

One of the most formally assured debut features I saw last year, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s A Useful Ghost tells a peculiar, transfixing paranormal tale. A p...

Left-Handed Girl Director Shih-Ching Tsou on Collaborating with Sean Baker and Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes

A mother and two daughters move into a cramped apartment in Taipei, a tentative step towards financial independence. Their struggle to survive provides the bac...

12 Films to See in December

As we enter the final month of the year, we'll be sharing an extensive look at the best in cinema of 2025 (bookmark here), but first, let's look at the highlig...

Mother Mary Trailer: David Lowery Returns with Pop Melodrama Starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel

Reteaming with A24 after A Ghost Story and The Green Knight, writer-director David Lowery returns next year with Mother Mary, an epic pop melodrama that brings...

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2025

Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold new voices. It's why we venture to festiv...

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2025 Includes Afternoons of Solitude, One Battle After Another, and Nouvelle Vague

I blinked once and it was time for end-of-2025 lists. Few things herald the onslaught quite so seriously as Cahiers du cinéma's annual countdown, which has cha...

New to Streaming: Blossoms Shanghai, Blue Moon Bugonia, Urchin, Left-Handed Girl & 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...

NYC Weekend Watch: Abel Ferrara’s Cat Chaser

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaOur presentation of the uber-rare director's cut of Abel Ferrara's Cat Chaser sc...

Mr. Scorsese Editor David Bartner on Capturing the Emotional Heart of a Legendary Career

For a career as diverse, singular, and influential as Martin Scorsese's, the task of summarizing it in even five hours is a mammoth task, making director Rebec...

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

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. ...

News

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Sophia Takal’s Act One Feels Like a Lucid Nightmare

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

Read This: Wonderful and Strange Peaks, the Life of Hannibal Lecter, a Century of Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese’s Filmography & More

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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