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Busan Review: ‘Suk Suk’ Beautifully Captures a Late-Blossoming Queer Romance

Queer cinema has made great strides in recent years, allowing every letter on the LGBT-banner to be prominently represented at major film festivals worldwide. I...

Busan Review: ‘Boluomi’ is a Misery Trip Through a War-Torn Malaysia

There are films you feel glad to have seen for educational reasons, for being informed about aspects of our messed-up world that have so far escaped your attent...

Bertrand Bonello on ‘Zombi Child,’ the Positivity of Voodoo, Real-Life Zombies, and Contemporary Cultural Tensions

We sat down with Bonello at the 57th New York Film Festival to discuss meeting real-life zombies, the great lengths he went to respect the Haitian tradition of voodoo while telling a taboo story, using Clairvius Narcisse’s zombification to contextualize contemporary cultural tensions, and recruiting historian Patrick Boucheron to explain how liberalism obscures liberty....

BIFF Review: ‘A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem’ Shows the Ingrained Misogyny of Sportsdom

Everything in this world comes down to control and that's what makes the work being done by minority classes (gender, race, sexuality, religion, etc.) so import...

BIFF Review: ‘Rendezvous in Chicago’ Traverses the Tenuous Divisions Between Public and Private Life

There's a reason the first word in Michael Glover Smith's triptych Rendezvous in Chicago isn't pluralized despite consisting of three distinct stories. It stems...

BIFF Review: ‘The Garden Left Behind’ is a Potent Expression of Humanity’s Collective Dysphoria

What's mostly a vérité document of lead character Tina's (Carlie Guevara) trajectory towards chemically transitioning from male to female despite being an undoc...

‘The Death of Dick Long’ Director Daniel Scheinert on the Explosion of the Nuclear Family & the Emotion of 2000s Rock

We sat down with Scheinert to talk about establishing character dynamics, working once again with members of Manchester Orchestra, the terrors of nuclear families and faking it, and getting to do your own version of a Quentin Tarantino scene. Also, trolling fans of the long-forgotten band Hinder....

News

Exclusive Trailer for James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ The Misconceived, Set for May Release

Park Chan-wook to Direct Tang Wei, Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, and Pedro Pascal in The Brigands of Rattlecreek

Scout Tafoya and Tucker Johnson’s Stubborn Beast Begins Production

Trailers

Zach Cregger Returns in First Trailer for Resident Evil

Exclusive Trailer for James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ The Misconceived, Set for May Release

Jackass: Best and Last Trailer: Get Ready for One Final Ride

Reviews

Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) Review: Lucrecia Martel’s Essential Document of Indigenous Resistance

This is Not a Drill Review: A Sharp Portrait of Climate Activists Who Still Fight

The Last One for the Road Review: A Delightful Trip Through Italy

Features

Posterized May 2026: Renoir, I Love Boosters, Backrooms & More

New to Streaming: A Magnificent Life, Wuthering Heights, Stranger Eyes, An Unfinished Film & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Tony Leung, Bellissima, Whisper of the Heart & More

Interviews

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

“Objectivity Is Not Possible”: Lucrecia Martel on Crafting Her First Documentary

“My Best Ideas Come To Me On Walks”: Sho Miyake on Two Seasons, Two Strangers

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

The B-Sides of Steve Martin with Eric D. Snider

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