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Mank Leads the 2021 Oscar Nominations

This past year has upended the film industry in many way, reverberating to awards season as the 2020-2021 Oscar season has been pushed back. Following an exten...

Berlin Review: Mr Bachmann and His Class is a Patiently Observed, Deeply Heartfelt Documentary

Near the beginning of the new documentary Mr. Bachmann and His Class, the eponymous school teacher finishes another day of work, gets in his car, and drives ho...

New to Streaming: The Inheritance, Center Stage, Black Westerns, Come True, and 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 ...

Glasgow Review: Gagarine Vividly Offers One of the Greatest Representations of Autism in Cinema

A common trend amongst autistic people is the desire to escape, to exist outside of ourselves and transport into another realm. There is this consistent appeal...

Monday Trailer: Sebastian Stan & Denise Gough Swiftly Fall in Love in Athens

A selection at the canceled Tribeca Film Festival last year before finally debuting as part of TIFF's Industry Selects sidebar, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ dram...

The Inheritance Review: History, Art, Ideology, and Love Converge in Thrillingly Alive Debut Feature

History, art, ideology, and love make up the four pillars of Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance, a thrillingly alive debut feature that resides both inside the sq...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Mike Nichols, Dazed and Confused, Tenet, Fury Road & More

The end of 2020 and the start of 2021 have featured a diverse and dynamic collection of cinema-related books. Let's start with two of these, a biography of dir...

Quo vadis, Aida? Review: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Oscar Entry Captures Desperation with Intensity

Some stories don't leave room for a hero even if they provide ample opportunity for one to enter. And when it comes to the 1995 Bosnian genocide that occurred ...

Unearthing the Joys of Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland’s Anti-Vietnam War Doc F.T.A.

Against the star-spangled, quilted backdrop of what looks like it could be a friendly, amateur Fourth of July talent show, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, and t...

Mélanie Laurent is Trapped in First Trailer for Alexandre Aja’s Oxygen

Following up his immensely entertaining Crawl, Alexandre Aja is back with a survival thriller marking his return to a French-language film. Led by Mélanie Laur...

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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