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I Hate New York Review: An Intimate, Revelatory Love Song to a Vampiric City

Few places on Earth have been mythologized as much as New York City. The very mention of its name can instantly summon images (King Kong atop the Empire State ...

Venice Review: Frederick Wiseman Digs Out the Soul of City Hall in Latest Documentary Epic

An opening shot of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery shows a man polishing the floor of a room walled with masterpieces. Recently writing about the moment f...

NYFF Review: Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is a Jubilant Portrait of Community

An appropriately buoyant opening-night choice for this year’s New York Film Festival, Lovers Rock chronicles an underground London blues party, a space where B...

New to Streaming: 58th New York Film Festival, Lucrecia Martel, The Devil All the Time & More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...

The Devil All the Time Review: Antonio Campos Crafts an Amoral, Stagnant Gothic Tale

Is it cynical or bitter? That’s a hill I find myself dying on on a regular basis, so it only makes sense for The Devil All the Time to add to the pile. Written...

The Secrets We Keep Review: Noomi Rapace Relives WWII Horrors in Jumbled Exploitation Thriller

Returning to the questions of identity that propelled his 2019 spy thriller The Operative, Yuval Adler’s misfire The Secrets We Keep is a violent exploitation ...

TIFF Review: Shadow in the Cloud Sets Chloë Grace Moretz in a Taut Thriller That Devolves into Chaos

Try as they might, Max Landis' name is still there on the big screen when the opening titles to Roseanne Liang's Shadow in the Cloud begin to roll. They've scr...

Carrie Coon and Jude Law Face a Faltering Marriage in New Trailer for Sean Durkin’s The Nest

Carrie Coon’s filmography ranges from Gone Girl to The Leftovers to Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town. Jude Law’s in recent years has been as idiosyncratic as to ...

TIFF Review: David Oyelowo’s Debut Feature The Water Man is Intriguing But Undercooked

It's starting to feel as though Gunner Boone's (Lonnie Chavis) life is fitting to become a series of upheavals with no end in sight. First, it was living with ...

Residue Review: An Auspicious Directorial Debut Exuding Laidback Confidence

Upon his return home from California, Jay (Obi Nwachukwu) glides through his old neighborhood of NoMa, Washington, D.C. He makes small talk with old acquaintan...

News

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

Tony Leung Finds Earthly Connection in Exclusive Poster for Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend

Trailers

Jinsei Trailer: A Century-Spanning Japanese Feature Crafted by a Single Animator

Idiots Red Band Trailer: Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. Lead Macon Blair’s Comedy

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Chie Hayakawa’s Cannes Selection Renoir, Opening This May

Reviews

Fuze Review: An Air-Tight, Relentless Thriller

Erupcja Review: A Fateful Romantic Timebomb Erupts

Blue Heron Review: An Astonishing Seance of Self and Film

Features

8 Films to See at MoMI’s First Look 2026

NYC Weekend Watch: Tina Aumont, Terry Zwigoff, Pauline at the Beach & More

New to Streaming: The Love That Remains, Magellan, Undertone, The Chronology of Water & More

Interviews

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

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

David Lowery on Mother Mary, Beyoncé, and Transposing His Concerns Onto a Pop Icon

Podcasts

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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

Dolphins and Drugs: Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens on Capturing the Work of John Lilly

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