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Spike Lee’s Filmed Version of David Byrne’s American Utopia Will Open TIFF 2020

This year's edition of the Toronto International Film Festival will look quite different as organizers have already laid out, but one tradition that won't be g...

Exclusive Trailer for Acclaimed Documentary Sunless Shadows Introduces Iranian Women Imprisoned for Murder

In a society where women are shunned and any semblance of freedom or independence seems unattainable, some are pushed to a breaking point in their own families...

Intermission Ep. 8 – Original Cast Album: Company (with Kyle Turner)

Welcome back 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 plethora...

Dirt Music Review: Star-Crossed Lovers Down Under Never Find the Right Pitch

So much of Dirt Music, directed by Gregor Jordan, feels like it happens on the fringes of a more interesting narrative. Set in Western Australia, the film cent...

Metrograph Announces New Membership-Based Programming, Available Digitally Nationwide

Opening four years ago in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Metrograph has been a bastion for cinephiles. Since the pandemic hit in mid-March, causing all movi...

Lucrecia Martel, Lav Diaz, Miguel Gomes & More Pick Locarno Favorites to Screen in New Sidebar

Like most film festivals this year, Locarno Film Festival will not be moving ahead as usual. However, they've found inventive ways to both celebrate filmmakers...

The Rental Review: Dave Franco’s Directorial Debut is a Sturdy, Small-Scale Thriller

Terror in a hotel or motel (or motel shower) has been done to death, but bringing horror to the familiar trappings of an Airbnb is simple, brilliant, and surpr...

Radioactive Review: Rosamund Pike Fights for Recognition in Marie Curie Biopic

You can't tell the story of Marie Curie's genius without also touching upon the complex ramifications of the scientific work she accomplished. As her husband a...

First Trailer for Terrence Malick-Produced Drama The Book of Vision, Set to Premiere at Venice

With this year's edition of Telluride Film Festival canceled, the first major film festival to get underway this fall will be Venice––one of the places hardest...

Fisherman’s Friends Review: A Feel-Good Dramedy Featuring Unlikely Crooners

The moment a group of Cornish fishermen and lifeboatmen turned their charitable crooning on the shore of Port Isaac into a Universal Music record deal that saw...

News

Kenneth Lonergan Returns with Tomorrow Is a Drag; Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Matthew Broderick, and Vanessa Kirby Starring

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

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

Trailers

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

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

Reviews

Cannes Review: All of a Sudden Is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Most Empathetic, Humanist Film to Date

Cannes Review: Clarissa Provides a Formally Adventurous Showcase For Sophie Okonedo

Cannes Review: The Meltdown Is an Elusive Chilean Chiller

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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