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2021 Locarno Film Festival Lineup Includes Films from Abel Ferrara, Gaspar Noé & More

Year after year a site par excellence for the most innovative premieres—in that respect an antithesis to the ensuing fall circuit—the Locarno Film Festival ret...

The Forever Purge Review: The Horror Franchise’s Final Chapter Finds Provocation and Wit in Our Dystopia

There's one key fact about the fifth and (apparently) final installment in James DeMonaco's Purge series that demands mentioning: it was scheduled to debut Jul...

Trailer for Cannes Competition Title The Story of My Wife Starring Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel

The great Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi appears infrequently, making something of an occasion her next feature, The Story of My Wife. But we'd be thrilled ...

Bill Murray Rocks the Acropolis in First Trailer for Cannes Premiere New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization

If he decides to show up in France next month, Bill Murray will be pulling double duty. Not only has the actor reteamed with Wes Anderson for The French Dispat...

Till Death Review: Megan Fox Anchors a Contrived Survival Thriller

For its first act, Till Death tries keeping things muted. S.K. Dale directs his cast to deliver lines as if they’re somewhere between whispering and talking; c...

Come Fly with Quentin Dupieux in U.S. Trailer for Mandibles

Another year, another Quentin Dupieux oddity. While the specter of new work from "the guy who made a movie about the killer tire" has, perhaps, worn down in th...

Return to The Sopranos in First Trailer for The Many Saints of Newark

Among the fall's more enticing studio options is The Many Saints of Newark, a long-anticipated, long-delayed Sopranos prequel-of-sorts—to hear co-writer David ...

First Images from Hong Sangsoo’s Cannes Premiere In Front of Your Face

As last year's Berlinale premiere The Woman Who Ran arrives in the U.S. next week—followed by his next film Introduction at the German festival earlier this ye...

Scenes from an Empty Church Review: Onur Tukel Takes an Authentically Cynical Look at Faith During a Crisis

We all look for signs and interpret them how we see fit, whether doing so is correct or not—and despite those so-called "signs" proving nothing but coincidence...

New Details Emerge on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s War Picture Limbo

Though in production since March, Alejandro G. (née González) Iñárritu's Limbo—his first feature since 2015's The Revenant—has moved along rather quietly, its ...

News

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

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

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

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Reviews

The Gas Station Attendant Review: A Compelling If Formally Unsure Immigrant Story

Promised Sky Review: A Heartbreaking Drama That Hits Home

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“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

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

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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