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NYFF Review: John Boyega Navigates a Programmatic Narrative in Steve McQueen’s Red, White and Blue

Red, White and Blue, the third and weakest film from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series to premiere at this year’s NYFF, suffers because of its program...

NYFF Review: Ouvertures Uses Communal Theatre to Soulfully Reexamine Haitian History

In reimagining one’s history, you suspect your role in the proceedings. If you’re American, you put yourself in the heart of the battle, at the Constitutional ...

A Rainy Day in New York Review: Woody Allen’s Long-Delayed Drama is Insufferable and Vapid

There's a scene in Mike Nichols' The Birdcage where Robin Williams' character is helping Nathan Lane's character be more "manly." He has him mimicking differen...

Trump’s Failure to Control COVID-19 Gets Examined in First Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Totally Under Control

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage our nation and, now, much of The White House, a group of filmmakers secretly began making a documentary helping...

Belushi Trailer: The Life of the Late Comedian Gets Explored in New Documentary

The life story of comedy legend John Belushi will be told in an upcoming Showtime documentary aptly named Belushi. Directed by R.J. Cutler, the trailer was rec...

My Salinger Year Trailer: Margaret Qualley & Sigourney Weaver Enter the World of a Literary Legend

Opening the Berlinale Film Festival earlier this year when the world was in a much different state, Philippe Falardeau's My Salinger Year follows Margaret Qual...

Clint Eastwood to Direct and Lead Cry Macho

It's been both a year since a new Clint Eastwood movie arrived and a year since we've heard what the 90-year-old Hollywood legend may tackle next, which is a r...

NYFF Review: The Plastic House is a Uniquely Involving Sensory Experience

The dedication at the end of The Plastic House is short and sweet: “For Mum & Dad.” Like the rest of writer-director Allison Chhorn’s documentary, that ded...

NYFF Review: Heinz Emigholz Humorously Explores the Past, Present, and Future in The Last City & The Lobby

Canadian novelist and playwright Robertson Davies once compared the continuity of a reader’s relationship to literature to that of architecture transforming in...

Posterized October 2020: Possessor, Fire Will Come, Synchronic & More

The amount of high-ish profile movies coming out this month almost makes it seem like the industry is back in business. It's not. They're mostly all li...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Godzilla Minus Zero Teaser: Takashi Yamazaki’s Sequel Stomps Into Theaters This November

Hope Trailer: Na Hong-Jin’s Sci-Fi Thriller Arrives This September

Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson Rethink Their Lives in First Trailer for Joe Swanberg’s The Sun Never Sets

Reviews

Remake Review: Ross McElwee’s Introspective Documentary Haunts with Humanity

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass Review: David Wain’s Hilarious Ode to LA

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Features

15 Films to See at Japan Cuts 2026

New to Streaming: The Prisoner, Silent Friend, Obsession, Fiume o morte! & More

NYC Weekend Watch: 70mm Conspiracies, Immigrants, Spectres, Sherman’s March & More

Interviews

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Ross McElwee on Remake and the Painful, Profound Process of Making a Testament to His Son’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

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