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Restoration Trailer for Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn Honors the Theatrical Experience

The first film I saw when Metrograph opened a few years back was a first-time viewing of Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn on 35mm, so it's a bittersweet f...

George Miller, Idris Elba, and Tilda Swinton Finally Embark on Three Thousand Years Of Longing

Right before the pandemic hit, director George Miller was just about to begin production on his Mad Max: Fury Road follow-up, a new original film titled Three ...

Archenemy Review: The Cost of Comic Book Heroics Gets Exposed

Give Max Fist (Joe Manganiello) a fifth of whiskey and he'll tell you about the alternate dimension that holds his home city of Chromium. He was a hero there: ...

Wild Mountain Thyme Review: John Patrick Shanley Goes Astray in the Irish Countryside

At this point in his illustrious career, legendary playwright and occasional filmmaker John Patrick Shanley has nothing left to prove when it comes to artistic...

French Exit Trailer: Michelle Pfeiffer & Lucas Hedges Drift Away From a Luxurious Life

Closing out the 58th New York Film Festival this past fall was Azazel Jacobs' French Exit, a drama which pairs Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges as mother and...

Francis Lee on Ammonite, Obsession with Class and Gender, and Learning From Mike Leigh

Instead of filming a biopic of overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning’s life, director Francis Lee adapted the little of what’s documented about Anning with a sw...

Safety Review: A Manipulative Yet Effective Football Drama

Anyone who's played organized sports is familiar with their clichés. Whether "fighting in the trenches" as though a game is akin to war or loyalty and love tra...

Arnaud Desplechin Has Adapted Philip Roth’s Deception with Léa Seydoux

Every one of our conversations with Arnaud Desplechin eventually leads to Philip Roth. As far back as 2015 he told me of ambitions to adapt the author's 1990 n...

ND/NF Review: Servants is a Bressionian Spiritual Drama Set in the Former Czechoslovakia

The success of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida and Cold War has revealed, among arthouse audiences, a heretofore unimagined ravenous hunger for Eastern Bloc period dra...

Assassins Review: A Propulsive Look at the Peculiar Plot to Kill Kim Jong-Nam

One of the more bizarre international scandals of recent years is the February 2017 assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, the exiled former heir to late North Korean ...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

The Criterion Channel’s July Lineup Features Harry Dean Stanton, Jonathan Demme, The Prisoner & More

The Criterion Collection’s September Lineup Features Leos Carax 4K Set, The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater, Satyajit Ray & More

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Film Forum’s Laurel & Hardy Retrospective Celebrates Comedy Titans

Dreams in Nightmares Trailer: Shatara Michelle Ford’s Acclaimed Second Feature Arrives in August

Shinya Tsukamoto Goes to War In Trailer for English-Language Vietnam Film Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?

Reviews

Rose of Nevada Review: Mark Jenkin’s Stupefying, Time-Slipping Ghost Story

Maddie’s Secret Review: John Early Shows Total Commitment In Feature Debut

Tribeca Review: Alicia Vikander Gives a Restrained, Layered Performance in The Last Day

Features

New to Streaming: Two Pianos, The Last One for the Road, Pressure, The Wizard of the Kremlin & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

Interviews

“It Was Our Job to Commit”: John Early on the Roman Empire, Paul Verhoeven, and Maddie’s Secret

“I’ve Got No Idea How That Works”: Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada

Michael Sarnoski on His Favorite Robin Hood Films and the Character’s Violent Mythology

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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