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Takashi Miike Returns With First Trailer for Fantasy Epic The Great Yokai War: Guardians

With over one-hundred credits to his directorial resume, Takashi Miike is showing no signs of slowing down. After First Love made a bit of a splash, the prolif...

Federico Fellini Will Appear in the New Film Never Give Up

Nearly three decades since he departed this mortal coil, Federico Fellini will now be featured in a new film. Fear not, some sort of CGI recreation is not plan...

Nobody Review: Bob Odenkirk Leads a Retooled John Wick with a Sardonic Touch

What if John Wick wasn't so brooding and his boogeyman was forced to live out his retirement in the real world rather than one filtered through an embellished ...

Exclusive: Stellan Skarsgård and Andrea Bræin Hovig’s Marriage is Tested in U.S. Trailer for Hope

After naming it one of the best films we saw on the fall festival circuit over 18 months ago––when it premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival...

The Film Stage Show Classic – The Silence of the Lambs (with David Rooney)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by David Rooney, Chief Film Criti...

SXSW Review: A Film Executive’s Mental Breakdown is Maddeningly Explored in Violet

Violet, Justine Bateman’s often sharp commentary on a certain side of the movie business, suggests what might have happened if the protagonist of Kitty Green’s...

Mila Kunis and Glenn Close Seek Four Good Days in First Trailer for Rodrigo García’s Addiction Drama

In the midst of an awards season run playing a mother trying to save her daughter from drug addiction in Hillbilly Elegy, Glenn Close traversed similar territo...

SXSW Review: The Last Cruise is a Horrifying, Personal Look Inside the Early Days of COVID-19

One of several timely films offering a personal and global perspective on COVID-19, Hannah Olson’s medium-length documentary The Last Cruise is a stirring pers...

I Went to the Dance: Les Blank Charts the History of Cajun Music in Gloriously Restored Documentary

Cajun music’s most magical, unique aspect is how it creates joyous, raucous compositions from minimal instrumentation. Most Cajun bands consist, maybe, of a vi...

New to Streaming: Preston Sturges, Rose Plays Julie, Another Round, Zack Snyder’s Justice League & More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

First Look at Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms Follow-Up King’s Daughters Starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

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

Reviews

Cannes Review: With Club Kid, Jordan Firstman Announces Himself as a Director to Watch

Cannes Review: Fatherland Finds Paweł Pawlikowski in a Heady, Aching Register

Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

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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