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Berlin Review: There Is No Evil is a Major Work of Iranian Cinema and a Testament to the Oppressed

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof won Cannes’s Un Certain Regard award in 2017 with his bruising, brilliant drama A Man of Integrity, which explored how an op...

Berlin Review: Margaret Qualley & Sigourney Weaver Can’t Rescue the Saccharine My Salinger Year

An aspiring twenty-something writer with a couple of poems in The Paris Review, Joanna’s just landed a gig at a New York-based literary agency. Working on othe...

Review: Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella is an Unassumingly Sumptuous Look at Self-Doubt

Women from Shakespeare’s oeuvre find themselves reincarnated in modern-day South America through the recent works of Argentine director Matías Piñeiro (Hermia ...

Berlin Review: The Metamorphosis of Birds is a Beguiling, Engaging Portrait of Family History

What if you never knew your family, and they remained in photographs on a mantelpiece, their lives to be dreamed of, destinies to be imagined? That’s the premi...

Berlin Review: The American Sector Explores the Symbolic Resonance of the Berlin Wall

Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez’s documentary The American Sector announces its intentions from the very beginning, starting with its first three juxtaposed ...

Berlin Review: Red Moon Tide is One-Half of a Beautiful Meditation on Trauma and Loss

Framed as a series of tableaux, in which the residents of a seaside town on the Galician coast appear to be stuck in time–unmoving against the changing scenery...

Berlin Review: DAU. Natasha is a Provocative Introduction to One of the Most Ambitious Art Projects of All-Time

It is no use of hyperbole to suggest that DAU. Natasha already looks like one of the most provocative art films ever made. The first strictly theatrical featur...

The High Note Trailer: Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross Navigate the Music Industry

Following last year's Late Night, Nisha Ganatra is returning quickly with her follow-up. The Hight Note, arriving this May from Focus Features, stars Dakota Jo...

New to Streaming: Uncut Gems, Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard, Color Out of Space & 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 ...

Benh Zeitlin on Myths, Grassroots Casting, and Why Wendy is His Dream Project

Beasts of the Southern Wild was the indie darling of 2012 having racked up prestigious festival wins en route to four Oscar nominations. Despite being credited...

News

Todd Haynes to Shoot De Noche with Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez Starting Next Month

David Lynch’s Scripts for Unrecorded Night, Which Was to Star Toby Jones, to Be Published

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

Trailers

Love Conquers Death in First Trailer for Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover

Exit 8 Trailer: Genki Kawamura’s Acclaimed Videogame Adaptation Arrives in April

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

Reviews

Sundance Review: Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Will Sweep You Off Your Feet

Pillion Review: A Provocative, Funny, and Touching Anti-Romance

Sirat Review: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Trance Is a Grand, Adventurous Achievement

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

10 Films to See in February

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

Interviews

“Images Are Dead”: Oliver Laxe on Sirāt and Spirituality

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

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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