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Cliff Walkers Review: Zhang Yimou Weaves an Intricate Cat and Mouse Spy Thriller

The mission: parachute into Manchukuo (an area of China under the unofficial control of Japan during the 1930s), find escaped comrade Wang, and escort him to f...

Alice Rohrwacher Sets Next Film with La Chimera

Following her Cannes-winning third narrative feature Happy as Lazzaro in 2018, we've been awaiting news on what Italian director Alice Rohrwacher would helm ne...

Roman Polanski to Direct Next Film The Palace This Fall

It's rare that news involves a film one will likely never be able to legally see in the United States. While even Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York eventua...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about filmmakers! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they mad...

Port Authority Trailer: Martin Scorsese-Backed, Cannes-Selected Drama Finds Romance in NYC

Premiering back at Cannes Film Festival in 2019, Danielle Lessovitz's drama Port Authority will finally be arriving this summer. Executive produced by Martin S...

ND/NF Review: Short Vacation is a Lovely Portrait of Quiet Solace

Four middle school students are asked by their photography club adviser to document the “end of the world” with disposable cameras, which might as well be alie...

First Look at Julia Ducournau’s Raw Follow-Up Titane

After impressing with her debut theatrical feature Raw––which depicted a vegetarian's first week at veterinary school, when they soon develop a taste for meat ...

Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse Review: Michael B. Jordan-Led Adaptation Scratches ’90s Action Cinema Itch

Hollywood’s big budget adaptations of Tom Clancy’s literary thrillers range in quality and style. But the one thing they’ve all had in common is the character ...

Things Heard & Seen Review: A Haunted House Thriller With A Lot On Its Mind

It is truly incredible how durable the "haunted house" structure has revealed itself to be over time. Case in point: Things Heard & Seen, written and direc...

U.S. Trailer for Christian Petzold’s Undine Brings Mythic Romance

If we were to rank the selections of our summer movie preview, there's no doubt that Christian Petzold's Undine would be sitting at the top. The German master'...

News

New Restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils Leads Cannes Classics 2026 Lineup

Whit Stillman Plans Return with Adam Brody-Led A Night at Claridge’s; Sebastian Stan and Ana de Armas to Lead Felipe Gálvez’s Impunity

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Rare Touching the Skin of Eeriness Screens May 19

Trailers

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Kamal Aljafari Documents a Vanishing Land In Exclusive Trailer Debut for With Hasan in Gaza

Dominic Sessa is Anthony Bourdain in First Trailer for Matt Johnson’s Tony

Reviews

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Posterized May 2026: Renoir, I Love Boosters, Backrooms & More

New to Streaming: A Magnificent Life, Wuthering Heights, Stranger Eyes, An Unfinished Film & More

Interviews

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

“Objectivity Is Not Possible”: Lucrecia Martel on Crafting Her First Documentary

Podcasts

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

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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