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Havoc Review: Gareth Evans Retreads The Raid in Bone-Crunching, Familiar Actioner

Tom Hardy simultaneously fights corrupt cops and the Triad from the director of The Raid is, on paper, a pretty amazing pitch. Marrying Hardy’s gruff pivot bac...

Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel & More to Star in Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales

While Asghar Farhadi's first ventures working internationally with the French-set The Past, starring Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, and the Spanish-language dr...

Exclusive: Virginie Efira Wants to Save Her Family in U.S. Trailer for All to Play For

Before Virginie Efira can be seen reteaming with her Other People's Children director Rebecca Zlotowski in the Cannes-bound Vie privée, one of the actor's prev...

“Nobody Can See It In Georgia”: April Director Dea Kulumbegashvili on State Suppression and Luca Guadagnino’s Protection

Note: This interview was originally published as part of our 2024 Filmfest Hamburg coverage. April opens in theaters on April 25. With only two feature film...

Magic Farm Review: Chloë Sevigny Gets Lost in Argentina

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Magic Farm opens in theaters on April 25. Remember Vice News? It was like ...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Visionary Female Directors, De Palma’s Underrated War, Almodóvar, and Anthony Mann

We are now well into 2025, and our latest column features several books that will likely rank among the year’s finest and most important releases. Plus, this c...

Robert Zemeckis, M. Night Shyamalan, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Radu Jude Set Up New Projects

Directing the best American film of 2024 that's also the uber-rare piece of experimental art to screen in multiplexes and––you know where this is headed––massi...

2025 Cannes Film Festival Adds Films by Lynne Ramsay, Kristen Stewart, Ethan Coen, Lav Diaz & More

After the initial main announcement and sidebars, the full Cannes Film Festival lineup has now come into focus with 16 additions today. Highlights include Lynn...

MUBI’s May 2025 Lineup Includes Rooney Mara, Amalia Ulman, Latin America at Cannes & More

MUBI's May 2025 selection has arrived, featuring a Rooney Mara double-bill of perhaps her best film (Carol) and most recent effort (La cocina), Cannes-selected...

April Review: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Second Feature is a Mystical Cinematic Revelation

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. April opens in theaters on April 25. In this year’s diverse line-up of V...

News

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Jessica Chastain Begins a Dangerous Affair in First Trailer for Michel Franco’s Dreams

Reviews

Is This Thing On? Review: Bradley Cooper’s Gentle Film About Marital Strife

Marty Supreme Review: Timothée Chalamet Reaches a New Pinnacle in Josh Safdie’s Propulsive Drama

Cover-Up Review: The Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Features

Christopher Schobert’s Top 10 Films of 2025

New to Streaming: One Battle After Another, It Was Just an Accident, Song to Song, The Running Man & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Twin Peaks, Breezy, Gus Van Sant, Ken Jacobs & More

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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