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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...

The Father Trailer: Olivia Colman and Imogen Poots Cope with Anthony Hopkins’ Failing Mind

Living in his London apartment, 80-year-old Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) resists the care of his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman). She’s off to live in Paris in a l...

News

David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth Sets Global IMAX Release This November

Leos Carax’s Annette Follow-Up Lily May B to Shoot Next Year with Jenna Ortega

The Criterion Collection’s August Lineup Includes James Gray, Todd Haynes, and More

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Bouchra Presents an Acclaimed, Personal Hybrid Animation

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Lead First Teaser for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Reviews

Cannes Review: László Nemes’ Moulin Is a Brooding, Engaging World War II Thriller

Cannes Review: I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning Is a Captivating, Polyphonous Ode to Friendship

Couture Trailer: Alice Winocour’s Angelina Jolie-Led Fashion Drama Arrives This June

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Interviews

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

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

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

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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