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Sundance Review: The Killing of Two Lovers is a Haunting, Psychological Wake for a Marriage

Opening with a jarring, heart-stopping scene in which David (Clayne Crawford) points a gun at his sleeping wife, Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers is...

Sundance Review: Surge Finds Ben Whishaw’s Cracked Mind Spilling Out

As Joseph (Ben Whishaw) sits at the table with his parents (Ellie Haddington and Ian Gelder), he puts his mouth to a glass. He wraps his lips around the rim as...

Berlinale 2020 Competition Lineup Includes New Films by Christian Petzold, Hong Sang-soo, Tsai Ming-Liang & More

The Berlinale lineup already includes films from Jia Zhangke, Matías Piñeiro, and more, but now the competition slate has arrived and it's an incredibly promis...

Sundance Review: The Assistant Captures the Soft Pull of Complicity

The silences last a lifetime in The Assistant, written and directed by Kitty Green. Starring Julia Garner as the titular character, the film plays out over one...

Sundance Review: And Then We Danced is an Empowering, Heart-Wrenching Drama

To be a Georgian male is to be masculine—especially in dance. Merab's (Levan Gelbakhiani) teacher Aleko (Kakha Gogidze) demands that he stand straighter and st...

Sundance Review: Run Sweetheart Run Stumbles in its Feminist Horror Ambitions

For a good chunk of its opening, Run Sweetheart Run establishes its main protagonist with a montage. Cherie (Ella Balinska) is in the bathroom getting ready fo...

Slamdance Review: Animation Outlaws is a Brief Tribute to Spike and Mike, Pioneers of the Art Form

Any community or movement requires the support of curators and fans to flourish. Spike and Mike are credited with investing in a market where one didn’t exist ...

Slamdance Review: Close Quarters is a Riveting Study of Masculinity

A fascinatingly restrained if somewhat flawed study in masculinity, Andrés Clariond’s Close Quarters (Territorio) is an often engrossing slow-burn thriller set...

Sundance Review: Dick Johnson Is Dead Brilliantly Brings Levity to the Universal Truth of Death

There’s only one universal truth shared amongst all humans: one day, we will die. For some, this cold, uncomforting reality can lead to paralyzing anxiety as w...

Sundance Review: Wendy Finds Benh Zeitlin Returning with a Dull Peter Pan Retread

Is it worse to be bored or to be annoyed by a lack of ambition? What’s more grating: toe-curlingly twee humor or the type of writing that assumes a child using...

News

The Criterion Collection’s September Lineup Features Leos Carax 4K Set, The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater, Satyajit Ray & More

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

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

Trailers

Shinya Tsukamoto Goes to War In Trailer for English-Language Vietnam Film Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?

Barrio Triste Trailer: Bad Bunny Collaborator Stillz’s Bold Directorial Debut Arrives In July

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Sophia Takal’s Act One Feels Like a Lucid Nightmare

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

Michael Sarnoski on His Favorite Robin Hood Films and the Character’s Violent Mythology

Read This: Wonderful and Strange Peaks, the Life of Hannibal Lecter, a Century of Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese’s Filmography & More

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

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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