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Cannes Review: In Front of Your Face is an Emotional Step Forward for Hong Sangsoo

By evidence, Hong Sangsoo may never make an Oki’s Movie or Hill of Freedom-type work again; our maestro is shooting for bigger emotional game. It’s fascinating...

Cannes Review: A Hero Is Asghar Farhadi’s Return to Form

In A Hero, the discovery of a bag of gold coins sets the scene for a knotted Bressonian morality tale. The director is Asghar Farhadi, a filmmaker who has spen...

Cannes Review: Gaspar Noé Returns with the Devastating and Sincere Vortex

Stories from multiple perspectives have been onscreen at least since Rashomon, but even the great Akira Kurosawa might have found something to like in the new ...

Cannes Review: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton Make a Brilliant Union with Memoria

"Memoria" translates simply to "memory" in Spanish. The four syllables were also truly promising some resumption of a post-pandemic high-end cinema for us obse...

Vortex Clip & Poster: Gaspar Noé Wants to Make You Cry in His “First Film for All Audiences”

In a Cannes surprise, it was revealed that Gaspar Noé had a new film set to premiere at the festival. The Enter the Void director shot Vortex over twenty days ...

Cannes Review: The Restless Takes a Melodramatic Look at Bipolar Disorder

Big-screen depictions of mental health often lose nuance in favor of exaggerated tropes, inaccurately representing many experiences living with specific condit...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 436 – Zola (with Drea Clark)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Drea Clark to discus...

Pig Review: Nicolas Cage Hits Career Highs in Affecting Minimalist Drama

Pig will be a victim of expectations. While marketed as Nicolas Cage’s equivalent to a darkly comic and surreal John Wick, and though a study of the desire for...

Cannes Review: Sean Baker’s Red Rocket Explores the Adult Film Industry with a Fairy Tale Hue

Texas City in Galveston County, Texas, in the summer of 2016. Mikey Saber (Simon Rex)—or Mike Davies, as he’d rather not be called—lopes off a greyhound bus in...

New to Streaming: The Sparks Brothers, Her Socialist Smile, The Witches of the Orient & 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...

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

The Criterion Collection Announces Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Set

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

Trailers

Will Poulter Navigates an American Crisis In First Trailer for Union County

Exclusive Trailer for Japan Cuts 2026 Highlights the Best of New Japanese Cinema

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Traverse Giallo Underworld In Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

Reviews

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: 70mm Conspiracies, Immigrants, Spectres, Sherman’s March & More

Posterized July 2026: The Samurai and the Prisoner, The Odyssey, Night Nurse & More

12 Films to See in July

Interviews

Ross McElwee on Remake and the Painful, Profound Process of Making a Testament to His Son’s Life

Tamra Davis on Billy Madison, Half Baked, Watching Fellini and Coppola on Set, Bonding with Britney Spears, and The Best Summer

“There’s No Incentive for a Filmmaker to Retire”: Alex Cox on Returning With Dead Souls

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

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