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TIFF Review: Shiva Baby Delivers a Hilarious, Awkward, and Unforgettable Blast of Energy

It is apropos that Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby is screening in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery platform. It is a discovery, in every sense: ...

TIFF Review: Limbo Captures the Refugee Experience with a Dryly Humorous and Devastating Touch

Two Africans, an Afghan, and a Syrian walk onto a remote island in Scotland. The punch line potential is infinite. Writer/director Ben Sharrock knows it too as...

TIFF Review: Holler is a Coming-of-Age Story Drawing from Wanda and Winter’s Bone

You can only hide so many eviction notices underneath the porch flowerpot before a bank official finds and tapes them all onto the front door. This is where we...

TIFF Review: Monday Captures a Merry-Go-Round of Self-Destruction

Director Argyris Papadimitropoulos' Monday feels like it's going to be a wild ride right from the start as Chloe (Denise Gough) screams into her phone at the v...

TIFF Review: Akilla’s Escape is a Tense, Electrifying Crime Drama Led by a Stand-Out Saul Williams

There is a palpable sense of exhaustion and an air of dread over nearly every scene in Akilla’s Escape. It’s no wonder that despite the legalization of marijua...

Venice Review: Dear Comrades! Shows the Gears of Oppressive Government Bureaucracy with Blistering Precision

The gears of oppressive government bureaucracy are designed to crush homegrown opposition before it becomes too threatening. In that sense, institutions and po...

Venice Review: Wife of a Spy is Well-Realized Wartime Drama from Kiyoshi Kurosawa

We're in Kobe in 1940 on the eve of war. An English businessman is being forcefully ejected from his factory by a group of soldiers. "What has become of Japan?...

TIFF Review: The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel Can’t Keep Up with the Horrors of the World

Take one look at the state of the world in 2020 and you can understand why The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel exists, overexplanatory titl...

Venice Review: Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland Puts Frances McDormand on the Open Road

For all its contemporary elements, the story of Nomadland is as old as America itself. It’s the same hymn about the myth of the open road, stretching onwards i...

TIFF Review: Inconvenient Indian Explores the Modern Cultural Colonization of Indigenous Populations

As author Thomas King states near the end of Michelle Latimer's feature-length documentary inspired by his novel of the same name, Inconvenient Indian: "The pr...

News

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

First Look at Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms Follow-Up King’s Daughters Starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Catherine Breillat Sets Next Film With The German Cousin

Trailers

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Reviews

Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries

The Wizard of Kremlin Review: An Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian

Cannes Review: Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam Can’t Find a Rhythm

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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