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U.S. Trailer for Gabriel Mascaro’s Divine Love Brings Hope for New Life

One of my favorite films of last year's Sundance Film Festival is finally getting a U.S. release. Gabriel Mascaro’s strange, alluring Neon Bull follow-up Divin...

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Review: Sacha Baron Cohen Faces the Paradox of Wringing Comedy from Trump’s America

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (let’s call it Borat) took the English-speaking comedy world by storm in 20...

The Witches Review: Robert Zemeckis Conjures Amusement and Frights in Familiar Yet Entertaining Remake

Hollywood has few directors who exude the pure, giddy joy one can find in every beat of a Robert Zemeckis film. From the Beatles-infused start of his career in...

Ben Wheatley on the Moral Center of Rebecca, Revamping Hitchcock, and Constructing Layers of Memories

Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca evokes the titular character in the spaces she left behind in Maxim de Winter’s family estate, Manderley, and in the people she left beh...

Full Trailer for David Fincher’s Mank Tells a Story of Classic Hollywood

Update: Along with the trailer, an interactive site has launched featuring behind-the-scenes stills and a first listen of Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross' scor...

Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal Reteam for HBO Limited Series Adaptation of The Son

Although he's expanded his scope with bigger and bigger budgets, for my money, Denis Villeneuve's finest work is still Enemy, the enigmatic psychological thril...

AFI Fest Review: The Intruder is a De Palma-Esque Thriller Lacking Genuine Scares

“You are surrounded by intruders,” a strange, inexplicably knowing old woman tells a haunted voice actor and singer named Inés. “You have to get in the dream a...

Wander Darkly Trailer: Sienna Miller and Diego Luna Rebuild Their Life in Sundance Drama

A formidable pairing, Sienna Miller and Diego Luna lead the new drama Wander Darkly. Directed and written by Tara Miele, the film follows their relationship a...

Viola Davis & Chadwick Boseman Make Music in First Trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

After her Oscar-winning work in 2016’s Fences, Viola Davis is continuing her longstanding relationship with August Wilson in Netflix’s upcoming Ma Rainey’s Bla...

Adam Nayman on Unpacking the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson

Adam Nayman, discussing his long and detailed book on Paul Thomas Anderson, will be the first person to tell you there is no small resource of writing on Paul ...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Reviews

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

New to Streaming: Pillion, Is God Is, Erupcja, Omaha & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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