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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...

Hayao Miyazaki Crafts The Boy and the Heron in First Trailer for Two-Hour Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

While much of the Cannes Classics lineup this year look far back in cinema history, a new documentary in the lineup captures a behind-the-scenes look at a rece...

Dakota Johnson Leads Tig Notaro’s Directorial Debut in First Trailer for Am I OK?

Premiering way back some 27 months ago at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, we've been curious what happened to Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s directorial f...

Longlegs Trailer: Maika Monroe is Looking for Nicolas Cage in Mystery Thriller

In an era of marketing where most studios just drop a full-length trailer on YouTube and in theaters, hoping viewers will be impressed enough to buy tickets ev...

Cannes Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is an Anthology Film of Dark if Slight Delights

This one is for the true Lanthimites, the Dogtooth sisters, the biscuit women, The Killing of a Sacred Deer heads, a film to which the callbacks are so abundan...

Cannes Review: Carson Lund’s Eephus is the Definitive Baseball Hangout Movie

If the perfect sports movie illuminates the fundamentals that make one fall in love with the game, there may be no better movie about baseball than Carson Lund...

Cannes Review: Oh, Canada Finds Paul Schrader Meditating on the Indignities of Dying

The cinema of Paul Schrader has always felt like a confessional, all those dark rooms and troubled men, the registered Swiftie's own tortured poets department....

Cannes Review: In Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Cinema and Family Beautifully Come Together

Writing on Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island in 2010, Anthony Lane whipped a quote from Umberto Eco: "Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, b...

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

NYC Weekend Watch: The Wages of Fear, Carrie & More

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

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“It’s All Marketing”: Ed Lachman on HDR, Maria, and Lifetime Achievement Awards

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

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

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000)

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

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

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