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Sundance Review: The Russell Simmons Sexual Assault Documentary On the Record is an Emotional Gut Punch

Launched in 2006 by Tarana Burke, the #MeToo movement gained global support and momentum nearly a decade later when sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Wei...

Sundance Review: Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia Quickly Sinks

A profound and poetic passage and a playful Fitzcarraldo allusion aside, Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia is a shockingly bad picture. Omnibus (er, boat) flicks ...

Minari and Boys State Lead 2020 Sundance Film Festival Winners

With the first Sundance Film Festival of the new decade wrapping up today, the award winners have been announced. Leading the pack is Minari, which picked up U...

Sundance Review: Minari is a Heartfelt Portrait of Assimilation

There is no shortage of films that depict the pains of assimilation and the pursuit of the American Dream for a more promising future. It’s been customary for ...

Sundance Review: Boys State is an Extraordinary Look at the Democratic Process

When it was announced that Boys State had been picked up by A24 and Apple for $12 million–setting the record for a documentary sale at a festival and one of th...

Sundance Review: Sylvie’s Love is an Elegant, Jazzy Melodrama

Lush and elegant with beautiful performances, the jazzy period melodrama Sylvie’s Love plays many notes exceptionally well. It’s a shame its plotting and pacin...

Sundance Review: His House is a Chilling Culture Clash Horror Movie

As Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) sits in a hospital, a doctor (Emily Taaffe) takes her blood and notices marks on her skin. One is on her arm; the other, the right side ...

Sundance Review: Some Kind of Heaven Examines Whether Retirement Can Be Paradise

The draws of living inside The Villages, the largest over-55 retirement community in the country, are readily apparent. For the nearly 115,000 veterans planted...

Sundance Review: The Last Thing He Wanted is a Dull, Lethargic Debacle

There are myriad reasons why a film can fall far short of its ambitions. A lack of funds to truly achieve a vision, an unpolished script forced into production...

Sundance Review: Viggo Mortensen’s Directorial Debut Falling is a Difficult Tale of Unreciprocated Familial Love

Carving out a career that seems wholly based on personal taste rather than following the whims of what an audience may enjoy, Viggo Mortensen earned ubiquitous...

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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