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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...

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...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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