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Lana Wachowski is Directing All the Action Scenes in The Matrix 4 Herself

One highly anticipated film that had to postpone due to the COVID-19 outbreak was the fourth entry into The Matrix franchise. In a Marvelized world where actio...

Arkansas Review: Clark Duke’s Directorial Debut is an Entertaining Backwoods Black Comedy

As Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) shares during an early voiceover, organized crime in the backwoods of southern America isn't very organized. This is good since few of...

Tribeca Review: Call Your Mother is a Sweet-Natured Tribute to the Moms of Comedy Legends

Exploring the relationships between comedians and the women that made them funny, Call Your Mother is a fun and sincere ode to the creative process. Directed b...

Tribeca Review: Through the Night is an Intimate Portrait of Daycare Work

There’s something wonderful about a childhood experience like those chronicled in Through the Night, a film that mostly looks at the hardships of motherhood bu...

Albert Serra on the Utopia of Liberté and Pushing the Mental Borders of His Audience

The New York Film Festival’s Dennis Lim delivered director Albert Serra to me in the lobby of the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center during the 57th edition of th...

Introducing Intermission, a New Arthouse-Focused Podcast

Hi there! Welcome to Intermission, a spin-off podcast from The Film Stage Show. In a time when arthouse theaters are hurting more than ever and there are a ple...

Caleb Landry Jones Makes His Album Debut With the Baroque Anti-Pop Freakout The Mother Stone

Sometime during the mid-2000s, in a Buffalo, New York Circuit City, I came across a dog-eared book of music-industry advice from the 1980s. I didn’t buy it, an...

Exclusive: Hong Sangsoo’s Hill of Freedom & Newly Restored Woman on the Beach Coming This Summer from Grasshopper Film

Get ready for a Hong summer. On the heels of the announcement that Hong Sangsoo’s Yourself and Yours will finally get a U.S. release this summer, two more favo...

New to Streaming: Liberté, The Assistant, Deerskin & 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 ...

Posterized May 2020: Liberté, Spaceship Earth, The Vast of Night, and More

"Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover" is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column foc...

News

First Look at Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden Starring Virginie Efira

Justine Triet Sets Next Feature with Fonda Starring Mia Goth, Andrew Scott, Frank Dillane & More

Exclusive Clip and Poster for Ramzi Bashour’s Sundance Premiere Hot Water Introduces Mother-Son Road Comedy

Trailers

A Scenario Multiplies In First Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s The Day She Returns

Exclusive Trailer for Saša Vajda’s Berlinale Premiere The Lights, They Fall

Scare Out Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Spy Thriller Starring Jackson Yee Arrives This Month

Reviews

Sundance Review: Shame and Money is a Pressure Cooker Drama About the Crushing Demands of Capitalism

Sundance Review: Jaripeo is an Immersive Portrait of Mexico’s Queer Rodeo Culture

Sundance Review: Ghost in the Machine Lays Out the Evils on Which A.I. is Built

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Short Cuts, Strange Days, Silent Hill & More

New to Streaming: Sundance 2026, Peter Hujar’s Day, Ella McCay & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

The Love That Remains Director Hlynur Pálmason on the Preciousness of Time and Spontaneous Filmmaking

One Battle After Another Production Designer Florencia Martin on Building Paul Thomas Anderson’s Detailed World

“You’re Leaning Into the Ugliness”: Michael Bauman on Shooting One Battle After Another for Paul Thomas Anderson

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 175 – Rachel McAdams

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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