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Babes Review: Pamela Adlon’s Directorial Debut is a Sweet and Raunchy Comedy about Pregnancy

Transitioning the naturalistic comic sensibilities that made Better Things a success, Pamela Adlon’s feature debut Babes manages to co-opt the rhythms of a rom...

The Criterion Collection’s August Lineup Includes Brooks and Bertolucci on 4K

It's one of the great fallacies that comedy doesn't need to look good. (Blame years of badly lit Apatow productions and nearly every modern studio release bein...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 538 – I Saw the TV Glow (with Katie Rife)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr discuss Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow with special guest Katie Rife. Enter ...

First Teaser and Poster for Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes Premiere Motel Destino

With Cannes Film Festival now officially underway and reviews coming in, we're also getting new looks at some of our most-anticipated premieres. The Invisible ...

Cannes Review: Ghost Trail is an Engrossing Surveillance Thriller Haunted by the Syrian War

The wars in Gaza and Ukraine have dominated headlines for the past several years, yet receiving relatively little coverage today is the Syrian civil war, spark...

Cannes Review: Quentin Dupieux Brings Gallows Humor to Filmmaking Satire The Second Act

Quentin Dupieux returns with The Second Act, a playfully dour satire on the film industry that sees the French absurdist delve further into the apocalyptic moo...

Arnaud Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric Salute Cinema In First Trailer for Cannes Debut Filmlovers!

I'm possibly embargoed from speaking too much about Arnaud Desplechin's Spectateurs! / Filmlovers!, which debuts at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22, but suf...

Amnesiascope Presents a Rare Jean-Luc Godard Film at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research on May 28

Update: By popular demand, an encore screening's been added for Wednesday, May 29. See the original story below. My screening series Amnesiascope will have ...

New Details Emerge on Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, “The Story of a Personal Revolution In Cinema”

First look notwithstanding, details have been few and far between on Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, largely understood to concern the production of Jean-L...

National Anthem Trailer: Charlie Plummer Searches for the American Dream in Queer Drama

After exploring the American frontier in Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete, Charlie Plummer returns to the terrain with Luke Gilford's directorial debut National Ant...

News

Alice Winocour to Direct Angelina Jolie in Stitches

David Fincher’s Remastered Se7en Comes to IMAX to Kick Off 2025

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Trailers

Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott Clash in First Teaser for Bring Them Down

Tatsuya Nakadai Goes on Cold-Blooded Mission in Exclusive Trailer for New Restoration of Hideo Gosha’s Cash Calls Hell

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Find Pleasure in New Trailer for Babygirl

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

Appreciating a Pioneer: Pittsburgh Celebrates Queer Local Filmmaker Roger Jacoby with World Premiere Restorations

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

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

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

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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