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Sundance Review: All Light, Everywhere Brilliantly Questions the Bonds Between Filmmaking, Perspectives, and Policing Technology

Seemingly birthed from some kind of virtuosic computer algorithm or beamed directly from outer space, Theo Anthony’s debut feature Rat Film was a peculiarly en...

Sundance Review: Rebecca Hall’s Painstaking Directorial Debut Passing Seductively Shatters Façades

Rebecca Hall’s Passing has been fifteen years in the making, and that dedication shows in every meticulously crafted frame. Adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 no...

Sundance Review: Together Together is a Gentle, Insular Surrogacy Dramedy

Sometimes, a movie feels like it’s on the verge of something. Maybe it’s an explosion or an argument or a big decision, but it just doesn’t quite get there. To...

Sundance Review: Misha and the Wolves is a Twisty Documentary Unpacking a Holocaust Memoir

"Misha checked every box for the type of woman we seek to interview,” states a radio host with a pleasingly mellifluous voice at the start of Misha and the Wol...

Sundance Review: Taming the Garden is an Evergreen Look at Gratuitous Wealth

If you happen to maintain your own personal garden and feel stressed about the upkeep, look no further than Salomé Jashi’s visually striking observational docu...

Sundance Review: At the Ready Takes a Straightforward Look at Law Enforcement Education in a Texas High School

Following in the footsteps of last year’s Boys State, Maisie Crow’s At the Ready is another documentary about an education program in Texas that pushes young p...

Sundance Review: The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet Follows a Transient Journey in a Pandemic World

This year, because Sundance is a virtual festival operating in the midst of the coronavirus, there’s a tendency to label any depiction of isolation and mass hy...

Sundance Review: Coming Home in the Dark Presents an All-Night Joyride from Hell

In rural New Zealand, Hoaggie (Erik Thomson) rides in the passenger seat. His wife, Jill (Miriama McDowell), is driving and their sons Maika (Billy Paratene) a...

Sundance Review: Hawaiian Drama I Was a Simple Man Sedately Takes Death at its Word

One of the most succinct, yet heavily weighted lines of dialogue in cinema history is a three-syllable call to death: “Time to die," as Rutger Hauer’s Roy Batt...

Sion Sono on Briefly Dying, His Favorite Nicolas Cage Performance, and Prisoners of the Ghostland

The 57th directorial credit in his vast filmography, Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland premieres at this year’s Sundance before his 56th, Red Post on Esch...

News

New Restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils Leads Cannes Classics 2026 Lineup

Whit Stillman Plans Return with Adam Brody-Led A Night at Claridge’s; Sebastian Stan and Ana de Armas to Lead Felipe Gálvez’s Impunity

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Rare Touching the Skin of Eeriness Screens May 19

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks Captures Growing Up on the French Riviera

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Kamal Aljafari Documents a Vanishing Land In Exclusive Trailer Debut for With Hasan in Gaza

Reviews

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

Features

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

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“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

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

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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