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ND/NF Review: Moon, 66 Questions is a Touching Story of Father-Daughter Healing, With Dance and Tarot

Consider an odd occurrence: my generation––the millennials––are really feeling tarot and astrology at the moment. There are many pop-psychological interpretati...

Watch Sofia Coppola’s Short Film for the New York City Ballet

Following her Bill Murray reunion On the Rocks, Sofia Coppola returned to the Big Apple for her latest project. She's directed a new short film for the New Yor...

Wrath of Man Review: Guy Ritchie Reunites with Jason Statham to Spin a Familiar, Welcome Revenge Yarn

With his new picture, Guy Ritchie continues down a familiar, albeit entertaining, road. Following a decade-plus of big budget tentpoles (two Sherlock Holmes mo...

Posterized May 2021: Swimming Out, Spiral, Spring Blossom & More

There are a lot fewer ampersands this month as more theaters open and smaller studios decide to go back to their theatrical only rollouts with VOD arri...

African Cinema and Colonial History Collide in Férid Boughedir’s Newly Restored Camera d’Afrique

African cinema may, for most, be top of the blindspot list. The history of filmmaking, distribution, and access to cinema in African countries is contentious: ...

The Amusement Park Trailer: George A. Romero’s Long-Lost Film Comes to Shudder in June

Just a few days ago we learned that George A. Romero's planned final entry into his zombie universe, Twilight of the Dead, will come to life under a new direct...

ND/NF Review: Liborio Tells a Mesmerizing Tale of a Dominican Folk Hero

Depending on the storyteller, the early 20th century folk hero Olivorio Mateo (the Papá Liborio of the title), was a Creole saint or a dangerous cult leader. H...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Bill Morrison

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...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Berlinale Winner Bad Tales Examines the Illusions of Family

After landing on our radars as part of the writing team behind Matteo Garrone's Dogman, brothers Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo helmed their debut fea...

The Paper Tigers Team on Hong Kong vs. American Filmmaking, Sculpting a Fight Scene, and Kindness in Cinema

There is a scene in The Paper Tigers in which Hing (Ron Yuan) details how one can tell a certain kick is special. Not the technique or style, but the sound. At...

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

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

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Reviews

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

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

Features

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

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

New to Streaming: Pillion, Is God Is, Erupcja, Omaha & 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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