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Fantasia Review: Detention Marks a Horrifying High Point for Videogame Adaptations

As a subversive poem (according to the Chinese Nationalist Party that ruled Taiwan under martial law during the period known as the White Terror from 1947 unti...

Possessor Uncut Trailer: Brandon Cronenberg is Here to Haunt Your Brain

There will be a smattering of Halloween-timed horror fare to watch this October, but near the top of our most-anticipated list is the latest film from Brandon ...

10 Films to See in September

The fall movie season is here. While we won't be doing our typically massive preview of the four months ahead considering how in flux the release calendar has ...

Robin’s Wish Review: A Somber Portrait of Robin Williams’ Final Years

When his brain was firing on all comedic cylinders—on stage performing standup or improvising in front of the camera—Robin Williams described an experience aki...

Fantasia Review: Fugitive Dreams Plunges into an Inescapable Purgatory

Every single one of us knows the terror of the unknown. Maybe it's as universal as our collective uncertainty about the future or as specific as your inability...

Our 13 Most-Anticipated Premieres at the 2020 Venice Film Festival

The first major in-person-only film festival to get underway during the pandemic, plans are full steam ahead for Venice Film Festival to kick off this week, ta...

The Mole Agent Review: A Geriatric Detective Story With an Authentic Core

The Mole Agent has quite the premise, and it seems intent to follow it at first. Outside of Santiago, Chile in the district of El Monte, a family suspects that...

Fantasia Review: The Paper Tigers Brings Kung Fu Comedy to a Dramatic Set-up

Like the warring Japanese dojos depicted throughout the Karate Kid franchise, a growing disconnect exists between those who wish to learn a fighting style as a...

Fantasia Review: Undergods Sets Géza Röhrig in a Dystopic Cautionary Tale

We all like to think we have control—kings of our proverbial castles. It's all a ruse, though. We're actually slaves to a system that seems more and more likel...

Fantasia Review: Come True Offers Up Nightmares with Indelible Imagery

The darkened screen is almost pitch black before we can begin to discern shapes in the distance. First it's wooden stakes in the ground at what looks to be a t...

News

Exclusive Trailer for James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ The Misconceived, Set for May Release

Park Chan-wook to Direct Tang Wei, Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, and Pedro Pascal in The Brigands of Rattlecreek

Scout Tafoya and Tucker Johnson’s Stubborn Beast Begins Production

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ The Misconceived, Set for May Release

Jackass: Best and Last Trailer: Get Ready for One Final Ride

First Trailer for Kogonada’s Zi Conjures a Poetic City Symphony

Reviews

Deep Water Review: Renny Harlin Goes Back to Basics in Airplane Disaster Movie Meets Shark Thriller

Hokum Review: Adam Scott Gets Trapped in Underwhelming Horror Feature

Two Seasons, Two Strangers Review: Golden Leopard Winner is Breathtakingly Gorgeous

Features

Prismatic Ground 2026 Forges a Vibrant, Accessible Path for Film Festivals

NYC Weekend Watch: Maurice Pialat, Jane Fonda, Tarsem, Casablanca & More

New to Streaming: Marty Supreme, Sound of Falling, No Other Choice, Late Shift & More

Interviews

“Objectivity Is Not Possible”: Lucrecia Martel on Crafting Her First Documentary

“My Best Ideas Come To Me On Walks”: Sho Miyake on Two Seasons, Two Strangers

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

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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

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