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Education Review: Steve McQueen Concludes His Small Axe Anthology on a High Note

In Education, the fifth and final film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, Kenyah Sandy’s young, bespectacled face commands the frame. His character, Kings...

Goodbye, Dragon Inn: Tsai Ming-liang’s Elegiac Masterpiece Projects a Constellation of Complex Desires

Though far better known by its English title, the appropriately elegiac Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 masterpiece bears a rather different name i...

Mank Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt on Why He Didn’t Shoot on Celluloid, Classic Influences, and Modern Touches

Beginning his collaboration with David Fincher as a gaffer on Gone Girl, cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt's third collaboration with the director has now arr...

The Best Documentaries of 2020

A harrowing look at the epicenter of the pandemic, moving stories for the fight for justice, journies into animal worlds, unpacking the intricacies of bureaucr...

Lars von Trier Returns to The Kingdom for Next Directorial Project

Update: Shooting has begun on the project in Copenhagen with the cast of Ghita Nørby, Peter Mygind, Søren Pilmark, Nicolas Bro, Bodil Jørgensen, with more to b...

Greenland Review: Gerard Butler Leads a Poignant, Powerful Disaster Flick

At first glance, Ric Roman Waugh's Greenland appears to be a spiritual sequel to Geostorm. Also starring Gerard Butler, that 2017 film is a silly, diverting di...

Mads Mikkelsen on Finding the Beauty in an Alcohol-Fueled Midlife Crisis

About 18 minutes into Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) starts to cry. They’re quiet tears, just brimming on his eyelids—I’m not sure ...

Listen: Mica Levi Surprise Releases New Solo Album Ruff Dog

Proving to publications around the world they should wait until the year's actually over before naming the best in their particular field, Mica Levi has now dr...

Criterion’s March 2020 Lineup Includes Céline and Julie Go Boating, Secrets & Lies & More

The Criterion Collection's March 2020 lineup has been unveiled, and it's an epic one. Along with their previously announced Wong Kar Wai box set, they will als...

ND/NF Review: Twelve Thousand Follows a Charismatic French Grifter in a Strange Cross-Section of Genres

Times are hard, and most of the time so is Frank (Arieh Worthalter). In Nadège Trebal’s Twelve Thousand, this charismatic French grifter sees sex less as commo...

News

Todd Haynes to Shoot De Noche with Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez Starting Next Month

David Lynch’s Scripts for Unrecorded Night, Which Was to Star Toby Jones, to Be Published

First Look at Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden Starring Virginie Efira

Trailers

A Scenario Multiplies In First Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s The Day She Returns

Exclusive Trailer for Saša Vajda’s Berlinale Premiere The Lights, They Fall

Scare Out Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Spy Thriller Starring Jackson Yee Arrives This Month

Reviews

Sundance Review: Ethan Hawke is Good as Gold in The Weight

Sundance Review: Rock Springs Tells an Ambitious Ghost Tale

Sundance Review: Shame and Money is a Pressure Cooker Drama About the Crushing Demands of Capitalism

Features

10 Films to See in February

NYC Weekend Watch: Short Cuts, Strange Days, Silent Hill & More

New to Streaming: Sundance 2026, Peter Hujar’s Day, Ella McCay & More

Interviews

The Love That Remains Director Hlynur Pálmason on the Preciousness of Time and Spontaneous Filmmaking

One Battle After Another Production Designer Florencia Martin on Building Paul Thomas Anderson’s Detailed World

“You’re Leaning Into the Ugliness”: Michael Bauman on Shooting One Battle After Another for Paul Thomas Anderson

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 175 – Rachel McAdams

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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