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Berlinale Review: Blue Moon is a Melancholy Song for Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater

There was Dewey Finn, Ned Schneebly, Willoughby, Mason Evans Sr.––now there’s Lorenz (or Larry) Hart. Richard Linklater likes a certain type of guy, and ma...

Grand Tour Trailer: Miguel Gomes’ Mesmerizing Odyssey Arrives This March

Miguel Gomes, the Portuguese filmmaker behind The Tsugua Diaries, Arabian Nights, and Tabu, made his long-awaited return at last year's Cannes Film Festival wi...

Berlinale Review: Timestamp Portrays a Patchwork of Pain and Perseverance for Ukraine’s Children

Not a single image of warfare can be found in Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai’s Timestamp, but the irrevocable effect of Russia’s unjustified invasion of...

Berlinale Review: All I Had Was Nothingness Perfectly Complements Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah

When reading Claude Lanzmann’s 2009 memoir The Patagonian Hare, director Guillaume Ribot was struck by insights into making the monumental Shoah. The book ...

Pet Shop Days Trailer: Olmo Schnabel’s Martin Scorsese-Backed Directorial Debut is Coming to Theaters This March

Premiering back at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Olmo Schnabel's directorial debut Pet Shop Days went on to play at Chicago International Festival, SXSW, and ...

Berlinale Review: Kontinental ’25 Shows Radu Jude Has Nothing Left To Prove

“The id grows tedious,” art critic Jackson Arn wrote recently, “when left to speak too freely.” The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude keeps his in check by grou...

Spike Lee Shares First Look at Highest 2 Lowest and Confirms Summer 2025 Release

Spike Lee's major year already kicked off in a big way at the Super Bowl with a tie-in to one of his most underappreciated films and now the filmmaker is finis...

Claire Denis Eyes Crime Drama The Soap Maker

Claire Denis, set to turn 79 this year, has not slowed in the least. As cameras roll on Cry of the Guards she's entered negotiations to direct The Soap Maker, ...

The Actor Trailer: André Holland-Led Noir Drama Arrives This March

After co-helming Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman, we’ve long anticipated Duke Johnson’s next feature The Actor. A decade since the filmmaker's last film, the dr...

Berlinale Review: Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a Feverish, Visceral Assault on the Senses

Positive or not, all critical appraisals of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s films inevitably land on the same talking point: their inordinate cinephilia....

News

Martin Scorsese to Direct Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in What Happens at Night

October on the Criterion Channel Includes John Carpenter, Body Horror, Edward Yang, Hong Kong & More

Watch Francis Ford Coppola and Shia LaBeouf Quarrel on the Set of Megalopolis

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for 35th Anniversary Restoration of Zhang Yimou’s Ju Dou Starring Gong Li

Urchin Trailer: Harris Dickinson’s Riveting Directorial Debut Arrives This October

U.S. Trailer for Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower Obsesses Over Marion Cotillard

Reviews

MEGADOC Review: Behind the Scenes of Francis Ford Coppola’s Legendary Big Swing

Predators Reviewing: Unpacking the Moral Complexities of a Hit Reality Show

Plainclothes Review: A Riveting Paranoia Thriller About Coming Out

Features

A Trio of Sarajevo Film Festival Highlights: Sorella di Clausura, Phantoms of July, and White Snail

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Weapons, Honey Don’t, The Damned, Sister Midnight & More

Interviews

Predators Director David Osit on Subverting the True Crime Genre, Verité Filmmaking, and Diverse Reactions

Beautiful, Melancholic, Philosophical: Mike Figgis on Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis, and MEGADOC

“I Like Films That Are Quieter in Their Execution”: Sierra Falconer on Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)

Podcasts

Remembering Robert Redford (with Blake Howard)

Emulsion Ep. 14 – Filipe Furtado on Movie Dementia, Carlos Reichenbach, and Brazilian Cinema

The B-Side Ep. 167 – John Frankenheimer (with Blake Howard)

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