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A Vittorio De Sica Masterwork is Restored in New Trailer for Shoeshine

While certainly best-known for Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica's vast, varied body of work is worth diving into. This June, those in NYC can experience quite...

A Mystery Unfolds In First Trailer for Alain Guiraudie’s Cannes Premiere Misericordia

The Cannes crush can be so unforgiving. This year's case in point: Misericordia has premiered to relatively little notice despite being the latest by the great...

MUBI’s June 2024 Lineup Features Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Abbas Kiarostami, Hirokazu Kore-eda & More

MUBI has unveiled next month’s streaming lineup, featuring recent releases such as Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster, Tynan DeLong's Dad & Step-Dad, and Rachel L...

Cannes Review: Limonov. The Ballad Finds Ben Whishaw Leading a Boisterous Biopic

At a wake for the murder of Russian journalist and activist Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead in 2006 in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow, French writ...

First Look at Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine Starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt

Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? For the last decade-plus (at least post-Pain & Gain), Dwayne Johnson has been serving up four-quadrant blockbuster s...

Jeff Nichols Will Adapt Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris

When news broke last year of John Hillcoat adapting Blood Meridian, I had expressed some hope for similar treatment bestowed upon Cormac McCarthy's final novel...

Cannes Review: Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao Speed Through 20 Years in Caught by the Tides

Jia Zhangke's is often a cinema of déjà vu: "We’re again in the northern Chinese city of Datong," Giovanni Marchini Camia wrote for Sight and Sound back in 201...

Cannes Review: Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 Begins Kevin Costner’s Magnum Opus with Sweep and Grandeur

Scale, sweep, or schadenfreude; whatever you might be seeking in the films of Kevin Costner, you tend to walk away with the vistas. Think of the golden plains ...

Yorgos Lanthimos on the Caligula-Inspired Kinds of Kindness and Finding Hope in Humanity

Oh, to be one of the chosen. I guarantee this thought washes over every single person attending the Cannes Film Festival, at least at some point. It is a reali...

Cannes Review: Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez is an Audaciously Bad Dud

There’s a lot to look forward to in what has been branded a Mexican comedy-thriller musical from the Palme d’Or winner that brought us Dheepan, A Prophet, Rust...

News

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2024 Includes Misericordia, Evil Does Not Exist, and Trap

Trailer for Palestine’s Oscar Entry From Ground Zero + Exclusive Poster Giveaway

MUBI’s December 2024 Lineup Includes Dahomey, Bird, The People’s Joker & More

Trailers

Sujo Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry From Identifying Features Team Arrives Next Week

Jacques Demy’s Masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Gets New Trailer for 4K Restoration

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

Reviews

Thessaloniki Review: Holy Electricity is a Directorial Debut That Finds Substance in Unusual Places

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Features

New to Streaming: Here, Conclave, Eureka, Memoir of a Snail, Beatles ’64 & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

Interviews

The Seed of the Sacred Fig Director Mohammad Rasoulof on Filming in Secret and the Repression of the Iranian Republic

Gaucho Gaucho Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw on Mythology, Compositions, and Community

Rodrigo Prieto on His Directorial Debut, Martin Scorsese’s Snubs, and Taylor Swift’s Feature Debut

Podcasts

The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

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