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Richard Jewell Review: Clint Eastwood Strikingly Explores American Self-Destruction

Throughout his nearly six-decade career as an actor and director, Clint Eastwood has persistently examined the complexities of cinematic heroism. While it’s tr...

A Hidden Life Stars August Diehl & Valerie Pachner on Terrence Malick’s Process and the Battle for Morality

We talk to the stars of Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life, a satisfyingly exhausting experience and an ode to Catholicism in which the viewer is asked to take a moral inventory throughout its three-hour runtime....

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2019

This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp, and we're highlighting the handful of 2019 debuts that most impressed us....

Albert Serra on the F*ckability of Movies and Europe’s Evisceration of Critical Thinking

We talk with the enfant terrible filmmaker behind Liberté and The Death of Louis XIV at the Thessaloniki film festival....

Exclusive Trailer for the 4K Restoration of Federico Fellini’s The White Sheik

Next year will mark the centennial of Federico Fellini, born on January 20, 1920 in Rimini, Italy. While we imagine there will be no shortage of retrospecti...

Watch: David Ehrlich’s 25 Best Films of 2019 Video Countdown

As Film Twitter quarrels over who or what did or didn't get nominated for a certain award, it's always a refreshing breath of air towards the end of the year to...

Kleber Mendonça Filho on Bacurau and How the Brazilian Government is Destroying Culture

With three features to date, Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho has distinguished himself as one of the most eclectic voices in world cinema. We caught up with the director at the Marrakech International Film Festival....

The Film Stage Show Ep. 377 – Marriage Story

We fight over the divorce drama from writer-director Noah Baumbach, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver....

U.S. Trailer for Beanpole Previews Kantemir Balagov’s Cannes Winner and Russia’s Oscar Entry

Russia’s official selection for the 92nd Academy Awards, Beanpole is the achingly beautiful sophomore feature by the burgeoning auteur Kantemir Balagov. An offi...

The Whistlers Trailer: Corneliu Porumboiu Gets His Own James Bond

A month or so before No Time to Die arrives in theaters, we'll be getting a spin on a James Bond-esque adventure from one of the world's greatest international ...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

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

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

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 Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

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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