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Sundance Review: Collective Chronicles a Romanian Health Care Scandal With Unprecedented Access

Part journalism procedural and part depressing exposé, Alexander Nanau’s verité documentary Collective examines the institutional corruption at the heart of th...

Sundance Review: The Night House Traps Rebecca Hall With Her Demons

It’s about 20 minutes into The Night House that it finds its footing. The school year has just ended and Beth (Rebecca Hall), a high school English teacher, go...

Sundance Review: Whirlybird Explores the Adrenaline-Fueled Aerial News Game

“Oh! Oh! Oh!” a voice keeps screaming. There’s a man flowing from a side channel into a main canal during a flood, and he breaks past a wall of white rapids. N...

Sundance Review: The Glorias Celebrates a Living Legend

It's hard to imagine someone better suited to take on the legacy of Gloria Steinem than Julie Taymor. Her first directorial effort in a decade, The Glorias off...

Sundance Review: Downhill is a Remake of Force Majeure Without the Risks

The inciting incident of Downhill takes place on the deck of a ski resort in the Alps. In the midst of lunch, a family of four watches a controlled avalanche t...

Sundance Review: Shirley Finds Elisabeth Moss on a Literary Path of Liberation

After getting attention on the festival circuit with her back-to-back first features Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch, director Josephine Deck...

Sundance Review: The Nest Meticulously Unpacks the Futility of Wealth with Impeccable Craft

One of Sundance’s most stunning break-outs in the past decade was Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin’s remarkably crafted, psychologically deft exploration ...

Sundance Review: Scare Me Finds Fear in the Details

A cramped setting, an onslaught of clever dialogue and a twisty plot go a long way in Scare Me, an impressive little movie from writer/director Josh Ruben, who...

Sundance Review: Promising Young Woman Sets Carey Mulligan on a Trail of Vengeance

So much of what makes Promising Young Woman work so well is in what's not on screen. Far more contemplative than initial marketing might suggest, this is a rev...

Sundance Review: Uncle Frank Features a Top-Notch Performance From Paul Bettany

Have we ever given Paul Bettany the credit he deserves? One thinks back to his stellar turns in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Reckoning,...

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: The Meltdown Is an Elusive Chilean Chiller

Cannes Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales Is an Ambitious If Tedious Take on Kieślowski

Cannes Review: Gentle Monster Is a Masterfully Performed Drama In the Aftermath of Betrayal

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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