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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...

The Invisible Man Review: Elisabeth Moss Commands an Empathetic Horror Film That Reaches Maniacal Heights

The innate horrors of the unseen are given fresh life in The Invisible Man, a reinvention of the H.G. Wells’ novel that was first brilliantly adapted by James ...

Berlin Review: Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Final Work Last and First Men is an Extraordinary Cinematic Odyssey

If any film composer of the last decade defined the period best, it might’ve been Jóhann Jóhannsson, whose synthy, epic tones captured the turbulent, globalize...

News

Exclusive Trailer for James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ The Misconceived, Set for May Release

Park Chan-wook to Direct Tang Wei, Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, and Pedro Pascal in The Brigands of Rattlecreek

Scout Tafoya and Tucker Johnson’s Stubborn Beast Begins Production

Trailers

Zach Cregger Returns in First Trailer for Resident Evil

Exclusive Trailer for James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ The Misconceived, Set for May Release

Jackass: Best and Last Trailer: Get Ready for One Final Ride

Reviews

Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) Review: Lucrecia Martel’s Essential Document of Indigenous Resistance

This is Not a Drill Review: A Sharp Portrait of Climate Activists Who Still Fight

The Last One for the Road Review: A Delightful Trip Through Italy

Features

Posterized May 2026: Renoir, I Love Boosters, Backrooms & More

New to Streaming: A Magnificent Life, Wuthering Heights, Stranger Eyes, An Unfinished Film & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Tony Leung, Bellissima, Whisper of the Heart & More

Interviews

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

“Objectivity Is Not Possible”: Lucrecia Martel on Crafting Her First Documentary

“My Best Ideas Come To Me On Walks”: Sho Miyake on Two Seasons, Two Strangers

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

The B-Sides of Steve Martin with Eric D. Snider

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