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The World to Come Trailer: Katherine Waterston & Vanessa Kirby Find Romance in the 19th Century

One of our early favorites to seek out in the new year is The World to Come, Mona Fastvold's long-awaited follow-up to her debut The Sleepwalker. Set in the 19...

The Marksman Review: Liam Neeson Leads a Willfully Mediocre Neo-Western

The most remarkable thing about The Marksman is how actively it insists on not setting itself apart. Almost willfully mediocre, Robert Lorenz’s neo-western fea...

Martin Scorsese Confirms Killers of the Flower Moon Is Moving Full Steam Ahead with Seven-Month Shoot

As his delightful reunion with Fran Lebowitz, Pretend It's a City, arrives on Netflix, it's afforded the opportunity for Martin Scorsese to step into the spotl...

The B-Side – The Final Frame: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...

Noah Baumbach Adapting Don DeLillo’s White Noise; Adam Driver & Greta Gerwig to Star

Don DeLillo's rarely been adapted for film and Noah Baumbach's never adapted a novel*. Does that make them certain bedfellows? Well, no, probably not even a li...

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth Was Shot in Black-and-White

While there's no release date confirmed quite yet, near the top of our most-anticipated films of 2021 is Joel Coen's new Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of ...

Locked Down Review: Doug Liman’s Pandemic Heist Movie Offers Trivial Pleasures

From The Bourne Identity to Mr. & Mrs. Smith to Edge of Tomorrow, Doug Liman's scale has come a long way since his smaller-scale breakouts Swingers and Go....

Acasă, My Home Review: A Family Fights Conformity in the Bucharest Delta

When encountering the societal and economic structures of everyday life, it’s not a rare dream for many to wonder what life may look like off the grid and out ...

Bliss Trailer: Owen Wilson & Salma Hayek Lead New Sci-Fi Film from Another Earth Director

Following his indie sci-fi features Another Earth and I Origins, director Mike Cahill has spent the last few years helming TV but now he's back with his third ...

U.S. Trailer for Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers Introduces Japan’s Oscar Entry

The films of Naomi Kawase don't always receive major releases in the United States, but thankfully that's not the case for her newest feature, True Mothers. In...

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

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Reviews

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

New to Streaming: Pillion, Is God Is, Erupcja, Omaha & More

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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