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Familiar Touch Trailer: Sarah Friedland’s Acclaimed Directorial Debut Arrives This June

One of the best first features in recent memory, Sarah Friedland's wonderfully gentle Familiar Touch premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it picked up B...

First Teaser for Bi Gan’s Resurrection Arrives Ahead of Cannes Premiere

It looks like Cannes was saving our most-anticipated premiere for last: it was just announced last week that Bi Gan’s sci-fi detective tale Resurrection has be...

“It is a Kingdom of Conscience or Nothing”: Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven at 20

20 years ago, 20th Century Fox began the summer-blockbuster season with a sword-and-sandals epic about the Crusades. Kingdom of Heaven's pedigree was impressiv...

Emulsion Episode Six: Edo Choi and Alexander Fee on Mikio Naruse

In a city where the rents are too high, the subways are too slow, and morale barely hovers above cope, repertory options might make such troubles worthwhile. S...

Mike Figgis’ Documentary on the Making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis Will Arrive This Fall

It's been one year since Francis Ford Coppola unfurled his epic passion project Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by a fall theatrical release ...

Sister Midnight Review: Offbeat Black Comedy Highlights the Modern Indian Woman

Recent times have been a boon for films by or about Indian women. On top of Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light, 2024 also saw the premiere or rel...

We Were Dangerous Review: A Coming-of-Age Tale of Energetic Independence and Defiance

The Matron (Rima Te Wiata) of Te Motu School for Incorrigible and Delinquent Girls truly believes she's doing the work of God through her three education princ...

NYC Weekend Watch: The Heroic Trio, Mikio Naruse, John Ford & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageJohnnie To's The Heroic Trio and To & Ching Siu-tung's Execut...

Jane Schoenbrun Sets Cast for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Picked Up By MUBI

After I Saw the TV Glow topped our list of the 50 best films of 2024, there's been much anticipation for Jane Schoenbrun's follow-up Teenage Sex and Death at C...

The B-Side Ep. 161 – Maggie Cheung (with Nick Newman)

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. ...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Catch Me If You Can, The Lost Weekend, The Spirit of the Beehive & More

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Trailers

The Odyssey Trailer Teases Christopher Nolan’s Mythic Epic

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Reviews

The Plague Review: Bullying Drama of Paranoia Requries Suspension of Disbelief

No Other Choice Review: Park Chan-wook’s Rage-Filled and Blood-Drenched Thriller

The Testament of Ann Lee Review: Amanda Seyfried Gives Her Finest Performance Yet

Features

Zhuo-Ning Su’s Top 10 Films of 2025

Nirris Nagendrarajah’s Top 10 Films of 2025

New to Streaming: Sentimental Value, Cover-Up, Where to Land, Die My Love, and More

Interviews

Jack Fisk on Creating an Authentic 1950s New York for Marty Supreme and Josh Safdie’s Drive

Mona Fastvold on The Testament of Ann Lee, Refusing to Compromise, and Cinematic Traditions

“Maybe Sometimes Something Works”: Nathan Silver on Carol & Joy

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

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