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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

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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