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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...

Sundance Review: Mother Schmuckers is an Irreverent Exercise in Provocation Without Pathos

In their debut feature film, directing duo Harpo and Lenny Guit craft a narrative unlike any other. Mother Schmuckers (Fils de Plouc in their native French) op...

Sundance Review: Playing With Sharks Showcases the Beauty of the Ocean’s Most Misunderstood Creatures

Sharks have been lurking in the depths of our cultural consciousness for decades now. From the fear that Jaws instilled in audiences in 1975 to the endless con...

Sundance Review: Strawberry Mansion is a Kaleidoscopic Reverie Bursting with Imagination

What if the government didn't strictly tax your paychecks and transactions, but your dreams as well? With their vibrant, imaginative, and genre-melding new fil...

Sundance Review: Pandemic Drama The Pink Cloud Disturbingly Reckons a Worst-Case Lockdown Scenario

Iuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud starts off with a disclaimer: “This film was written in 2017 and shot in 2019. Any resemblance to real life is purely coincidenta...

Sundance Review: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is a Moving Portrait of a Tragic, Unique Life Lived

In 1971, Björn Andrésen was the most beautiful boy in the world. In 2019, he’s the elder of a neopagan commune in rural Sweden, whose inability to commit suici...

News

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

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

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 Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

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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