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Sundance Review: Softie Vividly Captures the Cost of Insurgency in a Kleptocracy

Call him the Bernie Sanders of Kenya. In a country where voters come with their hands out seeking bribes, Boniface “Softie” Mwangi has been able to raise enoug...

Rosamund Pike Brings Marie Curie to Life in New Trailer for Radioactive

Renowned physicist and chemist Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Noble Prize and the first, and so far, only person to have won the prize in two ...

Sufjan Stevens Announces New Album Inspired by Blade Runner, Under the Skin, and Hereditary Scores

Update: Asthmatic Kitty has announced Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams' new album Aporia has been released early. Listen below or on Spotify. https://www.yo...

Spiral Trailer: The Saw Franchise Soldiers On with Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson

When your existing I.P. has been run into the ground with endless sequels, it still must soldier on, according to Hollywood. When it comes to the Saw franchise...

Inside the Revolutionary Visual Effects Process of The Irishman

Martin Scorsese gave ILM special effects supervisor Pablo Helman the script for The Irishman in 2015 on the set of Silence, and he was hooked. It took the visu...

Angela Schanelec on I Was at Home, But…, the Kindness of Ozu, and Her Filmmaking Philosophies

Angela Schanelec’s films make extensive use of ellipses, and narratives often branch out to new characters without warning, but far from being challenging or c...

Sundance Review: The Truffle Hunters is a Stately, Charming Look into an Age-Old Tradition

“If you’re not picky, you can eat them on anything.” So says one of the elite group of experienced, elder Italian truffle hunters portrayed in Michael Dweck an...

Sundance Review: The 40-Year-Old Version is a Personal, Playful, and Poignant Examination of a Mid-Career Artist

Playwright Radha Blank’s spirited directorial debut The 40-Year-Old Version in an often hilarious and heartfelt autobiographical tale of reinvention. Surrounde...

10 Films to See in February

After wrapping up our Sundance Film Festival coverage, it's time to look towards the month in movies. While Berlinale will kick off in a few weeks and Oscar se...

We Didn’t Start the Fire: Chilean Films at Rotterdam Under the Light of the Social Uprising

What started last October as a students’ protest regarding the rise in public transportation rates in Santiago de Chile has now blown up into a nationwide soci...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Reviews

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

New to Streaming: Pillion, Is God Is, Erupcja, Omaha & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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