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ND/NF Review: Giraffe Takes a Melancholic Look at a Changing Denmark

Like Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, Giraffe is a fiction sketched around the margins of an infrastructure project, capturing impressions of life and landscape in a ...

A Single Mother Rebuilds Her Life in the First Trailer for Herself

Charting a new path after her Meryl Streep features Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady, Phyllida Lloyd is returning with her most acclaimed film early next year. An ...

Roberto Benigni is Geppetto in U.S. Trailer for Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio

Years after his disastrous release of the critically and commercially panned Pinocchio, Roberto Benigni has returned to his favorite Italian fairy tale, this t...

First Look at Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland, Which Nicolas Cage Says is His Wildest Movie

Update: The film will premiere at Sundance 2021. See the full announcement. Two of the most prolific artists working today, Japanese director Sion Sono and ...

This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection Review: Lesotho’s First Oscar Entry is a Death-Obsessed Breakthrough Feature

When observing global cultural differences, some of the most telling points of distinction are seen in how different societies treat death. Beyond this, the on...

The Midnight Sky Review: George Clooney Panders with Saccharine Sci-Fi Drama

Since the release of Gravity in 2013, George Clooney has been in quite the acting slump, with Brad Bird’s severely underrated Tomorrowland as the lone bright s...

Criterion Announces Wong Kar Wai Box Set as New Trailers for 4K Restorations Arrive

The premiere of career-spanning restorations has been a time to again celebrate the cinema of Wong Kar-wai—but not without complications and conflicted feeling...

Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Leads Sight & Sound’s Top 50 Films of 2020

One of the most esteemed film journalism outlets, BFI's Sight & Sound, have delivered their list of the 50 best films of 2020. Topping the chart is Steve M...

New to Streaming: To the Ends of the Earth, Let Them All Talk, New Directors/New Films & 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 ...

Alex Wheatle Review: Steve McQueen’s Tale of Radical Awakening Makes for a Modest Small Axe Entry

Alex Wheatle, the fourth entry in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, offers a modest take on the process of unlearning cultural attitudes and biases through ...

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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