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The Damned Review: Frigid Civil War Sojourn Flirts With Documentary and Reenactment

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 NYFF coverage. The Damned opens in theaters on May 16. Robert Minervini’s The Damned&nbs...

Cannes Review: Leave One Day is a Nostalgia-Laced Musical That Plays It Safe

Frequent festival-goers learn not to expect much from opening films. Quality is but one of many factors that lead to the selection for this symbolic slot. In o...

The Film Stage Presents an IB Technicolor Print of Howard Hawks’ Hatari! at the Roxy Cinema

Having found success with Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo and an IB Technicolor print of Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks, it seemed only logical to play the middle grou...

Final Destination Bloodlines Review: Silly, Bloody Rollercoaster Ride Delivers Franchise Highs

As legacy horror franchises attempt to worm their way back into the public imagination with largely unsatisfying reboot-sequel hybrids, bringing characters old...

Landmark Iranian Feature Is Restored In Exclusive Trailer for The Sealed Soil

Perhaps no North American distributor does better to enrich film culture than Arbelos, whose major run of restorations continues with The Sealed Soil. Marva Na...

Familiar Touch Trailer: Sarah Friedland’s Acclaimed Directorial Debut Arrives This June

One of the best first features in recent memory, Sarah Friedland's wonderfully gentle Familiar Touch premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it picked up B...

First Teaser for Bi Gan’s Resurrection Arrives Ahead of Cannes Premiere

It looks like Cannes was saving our most-anticipated premiere for last: it was just announced last week that Bi Gan’s sci-fi detective tale Resurrection has be...

“It is a Kingdom of Conscience or Nothing”: Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven at 20

20 years ago, 20th Century Fox began the summer-blockbuster season with a sword-and-sandals epic about the Crusades. Kingdom of Heaven's pedigree was impressiv...

Emulsion Episode Six: Edo Choi and Alexander Fee on Mikio Naruse

In a city where the rents are too high, the subways are too slow, and morale barely hovers above cope, repertory options might make such troubles worthwhile. S...

Mike Figgis’ Documentary on the Making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis Will Arrive This Fall

It's been one year since Francis Ford Coppola unfurled his epic passion project Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by a fall theatrical release ...

News

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Jessica Chastain Begins a Dangerous Affair in First Trailer for Michel Franco’s Dreams

Reviews

Is This Thing On? Review: Bradley Cooper’s Gentle Film About Marital Strife

Marty Supreme Review: Timothée Chalamet Reaches a New Pinnacle in Josh Safdie’s Propulsive Drama

Cover-Up Review: The Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Features

New to Streaming: One Battle After Another, It Was Just an Accident, Song to Song, The Running Man & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Twin Peaks, Breezy, Gus Van Sant, Ken Jacobs & More

The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2026: Part Two

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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