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David Fincher Unveils ‘Mank’ Ensemble: Meet Orson Welles, Marion Davies & More

20 years ago on this day, Fight Club was released. Since his cult hit, David Fincher has made six films but the wait for his seventh will be the longest yet. Af...

U.S. Teaser for ‘Weathering with You,’ from ‘Your Name’ Director Makoto Shinkai

After Makoto Shinkai's Your Name. became one of the highest-grossing films in Japan's history, the director is returning with his follow-up Weathering with ...

NYFF Review: ‘State Funeral’ is an Immersion into an Ephemeral Moment of Collective Trauma

The death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953 sent political reverberations around the world, marking a significant power shift that would inevitably alter the ge...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 368 – Gemini Man

We discuss Ang Lee's new sci-fi thriller starring Will Smith....

‘Pain and Glory’ and the Art of Pedro Almodóvar’s World

We explore the vibrant cinema of Pedro Almodóvar and how his 21st feature feels like a personal culmination....

Mia Wasikowska Plots Revenge in First Trailer for ‘Judy & Punch’

Mia Wasikowska’s latest outing, directed by Mirrah Foulkes in her feature debut, finds her smashing the patriarchy. The Sundance selection Judy & Punch tell...

Teaser for Jia Zhangke’s ‘So Close to My Land’

It's not a decades-spanning crime drama or speculative sci-fi whatsit, but new films from Jia Zhangke are of note no matter the form. (Being one of the ten ...

NYFF Review: ‘The Traitor’ is an Accessible Arthouse Genre Film About Conscientious Rebellion

Despite 55 long and active years in the film industry and a long list of accolades, Marco Bellocchio remains one of the less recognized Italian auteurs of his s...

BFI London Review: ‘The Aeronauts’ is an Adventurous Family-Friendly Slice of Victorian Nostalgia

The Oscar-garlanded pairing of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones reteam five years after The Theory of Everything for The Aeronauts, an adventurous family-frie...

Sitges Review: ‘The Platform’ is Twisted, Ingenious Spanish Horror

There are three types of people, according to the opening lines of The Platform: those at the top, those at the bottom, and those who fall between them. That cl...

News

Jia Zhangke, Claire Denis, and Sam Raimi Set Next Features

Kenneth Lonergan Returns with Tomorrow Is a Drag; Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Matthew Broderick, and Vanessa Kirby Starring

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

Trailers

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Lead First Teaser for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

Reviews

Cannes Review: Na Hong-Jin’s Hope Is a High-Octane Creature Feature That Falls Flat

Cannes Review: Dominga Sotomayor’s La Perra Ditches Facile Metaphors for Allusive Mysteries

Cannes Review: All of a Sudden Is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Most Empathetic, Humanist Film to Date

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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