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Sundance Review: Fran Kranz’s Directorial Debut Mass Finds Understanding in the Unthinkable

Set in the meeting room of a modest Episcopalian church, two couples meet under tragic circumstances. For his directorial debut Mass, accomplished actor Fran K...

Sundance Review: Cusp Explores the Lives of Texas Teens with Intentional Aimlessness

There’s something very crass about Cusp, and almost all of that comes from its design. It’s aimless like its subjects, and it’s even more hopeless. Everyone wo...

Sundance Review: Prime Time is a Broadly Drawn Hostage Drama Lacking Tension

Pop culture, entertainment, hedonism—they’re all different sides to the same brain atrophy. Well, that’s how Sebastian (Bartosz Bielenia) sees it. He’s a 20-ye...

Sundance Review: Superior is a Delightfully Retro, Thin Drama Starring Real-Life Twins

Superior begins with a woman in a bright red jumpsuit sprinting away from a violent man, intercut with another woman, at home, frying an egg. It might not imme...

Sundance Review: The Apocalyptic Comedy How It Ends Rambles Through Los Angeles

In How It Ends, there’s a lot of talk about seeing somebody “in the next life.” The movie, created together by partners Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein, was wr...

Sundance Review: Jerrod Carmichael’s Directorial Debut On the Count of Three Finds Humor in Hopelessness

Considering the raw, uncomfortable truths found in Jerrod Carmichael’s comedy, the logline of his directorial debut shouldn’t come as a surprise: two friends m...

Sundance Review: Ben Wheatley’s Pandemic Horror Movie In the Earth Lands with a Thud

There is a stellar moment in Mark Harris’ stunning new biography Mike Nichols: A Life in which the director’s early 70s oddity The Day of the Dolphin is releas...

Sundance Review: Summer of Soul Miraculously Reclaims and Restores a Forgotten Harlem Music Festival

The biggest block party of 1969 took place over six weeks in central Harlem. Clustered together into the rocky confines of Mt. Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey P...

Shoah Trailer: One of the Greatest Documentaries of All-Time Gets First-Ever On Demand Release

A seminal documentary, and one of the most essential films of all time, IFC Films is bringing Claude Lanzmann’s magnum opus Shoah on demand for a whole new gen...

Sundance Review: In the Same Breath Surveys Governmental Corruption in Covid-19-Stricken China

Any newly-released film, book, or piece of media that begins its story in the latter months of 2019 is signifying something very clear: trouble like we’ve neve...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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