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Awaken Trailer: Globe-Spanning Documentary, Produced by Terrence Malick and Godfrey Reggio, Arrives in April

After sharing the visually staggering first trailer back in 2017, the globe-spanning documentary Awaken will finally be arriving in the U.S. next month, landin...

First Trailer for Ben Wheatley’s Pandemic Horror Movie In The Earth

Shot during the pandemic and about a pandemic but not precisely the ongoing pandemic, Ben Wheatley is returning to smaller-scale horror with In the Earth. Comi...

U.S. Trailer for Singapore’s Oscar Entry Wet Season Brings Rain-Soaked Melodrama

A highlight on the festival circuit back in 2019, Anthony Chen's Singaporean melodrama Wet Season––which was also the country's Oscar entry––will finally arriv...

SXSW Review: Lily Topples the World is a Joyous Exploration of a Domino Artist

One of the tools of the trade that 22-year-old domino artist Lily Hevesh shares with a group of families at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the importance ...

SXSW Review: WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn Explores the Dark Side of Disruptive Innovation

Many companies these days throw around terms like “innovation," “digital transformation,” and “entrepreneurial culture” without actually doing anything unique,...

SXSW Review: The Charli XCX Documentary Alone Together Feels Like an Afterthought Strictly for Fans

It's a shame pop musician Charli XCX wasn’t quarantined with anyone with formal film training during the pandemic. Alone Together, her debut feature as co-cine...

Exterminate All the Brutes Trailer: I Am Not Your Negro Director Raoul Peck Returns with HBO Series

Following up his extraordinary, Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck is returning with an ambitious, four-part se...

Shoplifters of the World Review: Helena Howard and Ellar Coltrane Embark on a Music-Filled Journey of Self-Discovery

The Smiths are dead. That's the news Cleo (Helena Howard) punctuates with a scream loud enough to wake everyone in Denver, Colorado but her own passed out drun...

Rick Alverson and Lisandro Alonso to Co-Direct New Feature The God Beside My Bed

Two of the most distinctive voices in filmmaking are teaming for a new project. American director Rick Alverson (The Comedy, Entertainment, The Mountain) and A...

SXSW Review: Udo Kier is Radiant in Swan Song, a Moving Ode to a Sandusky Legend

Completing his planned trilogy about gay life in Sandusky, Ohio––a town known by most outsiders as the setting for Chris Farley’s Tommy Boy and the home of amu...

News

John Sayles Sets Directing Return With I Passed This Way Starring Amy Madigan and Chris Cooper

KimStim Acquires Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path Remake for Summer Release

Nathan Silver Sets A Poet Remake as Next Feature

Trailers

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Reviews

Cannes Review: Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam Can’t Find a Rhythm

Obsession Review: A Nasty, Humorous Horror Breakout

Magic Hour Review: Katie Aselton and Daveed Diggs Work Through Complex Emotions

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

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

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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