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Sean Baker Covertly Made His Follow-Up to The Florida Project

Other than the strange saga earlier this year of Bella Thorne's aborted OnlyFans documentary and having video discussions with Abel Ferrara, Tangerine director...

New Small Axe Trailer Shows Scope of Steve McQueen’s Vision

Three segments (Lovers Rock; Red, White, and Blue; and Mangrove) of Steve McQueen's forthcoming anthology Small Axe already premiered at the New York Film Fest...

Wild Mountain Thyme Trailer: John Patrick Shanley Returns with Oddball Irish Melodrama

Though known as a prolific playwright, John Patrick Shanley's film career is notable as the scribe behind oddball heartfelt romances such as Moonstruck and Joe...

Dreamland Review: Rote Outlaw Tale Enlivened by Outsider Perspective

Eugene's (Finn Cole) father used to say about their Bismarck home, "This place is cursed." It didn't matter that it's where he and his wife Olivia (Kerry Condo...

Come Away Review: Brenda Chapman Limply Reimagines Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland

Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland form the basis of Brenda Chapman’s fantastical children’s film Come Away. I say "children’s," not "family," because it’s unli...

Hillbilly Elegy Review: Ron Howard’s Newest is a Melodramatic Mess

Falling squarely into the melodramatic Oscar-bait category that director Ron Howard revisits every now and again (A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon...

Manfred Kirchheimer on Restoring the Lost New York of Free Time

Between 1957 and 1960, Manfred Kirchheimer and his partner Walter Hess shot thousands of feet of 16mm film for a planned documentary about New York City. For y...

Céline Sciamma Shooting Portrait of a Lady on Fire Follow-Up Petite Maman

After the whirlwind festival and critical success of Portrait of a Lady on Fire (We called it one of our favorite films of 2019), Céline Sciamma is continuing ...

Abel Ferrara and Ethan Hawke Team for War Picture Zeros and Ones

Making what is by far the most reassuring news about our future to arrive in the past week, Abel Ferrara has cast Ethan Hawke in Zeros and Ones, a war picture ...

Trailer for Queer Yuletide Rom-Com Happiest Season Pairs Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis

Holiday films are often a dicey endeavor, but Clea Duvall’s yuletide romantic comedy, Happiest Season, should be a welcome exception to the characteristic lump...

News

Park Chan-wook to Direct Tang Wei, Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, and Pedro Pascal in The Brigands of Rattlecreek

Scout Tafoya and Tucker Johnson’s Stubborn Beast Begins Production

The Criterion Collection’s July Lineup Features The Elephant Man, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and Mike Mills on 4K

Trailers

Jackass: Best and Last Trailer: Get Ready for One Final Ride

First Trailer for Kogonada’s Zi Conjures a Poetic City Symphony

Romería Trailer: Carla Simón’s Cannes and NYFF Highlight Arrives This June

Reviews

Two Seasons, Two Strangers Review: Golden Leopard Winner is Breathtakingly Gorgeous

Two Women Review: Sex Comedy Flips the Script with Hilarious, Refreshing Frankness

Omaha Review: A Desperate Dad Takes His Kids On an Unexpected Road Trip

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Maurice Pialat, Jane Fonda, Tarsem, Casablanca & More

New to Streaming: Marty Supreme, Sound of Falling, No Other Choice, Late Shift & More

40 Films to See This Summer

Interviews

“My Best Ideas Come To Me On Walks”: Sho Miyake on Two Seasons, Two Strangers

Faith in the Process: Pete Ohs on Erupcja, Charli XCX, and New Methods

“You Can’t Recreate a Reality”: Sophy Romvari on Blue Heron

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

The B-Sides of Steve Martin with Eric D. Snider

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