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U.S. Trailer for Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower Obsesses Over Marion Cotillard

This being such a busy year for premieres, one is liable to forget the seven-months-gone debut of The Ice Tower. We nevertheless found it one of 2025's more no...

U.S. Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague Writes History in Celluloid

Films about films will earn a reflexive grown from the cynical; a film about one of the 15-or-so most-influential films ever––while, for good measure, serving ...

Lucrecia Martel Makes Documentary Debut In Landmarks Trailer

Eight years since Zama and more than two since she shared details, Lucrecia Martel has returned with her first feature-length documentary, Landmarks (Nuestra T...

Steven Spielberg Praises Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another: “What an Insane Movie”

With less than three weeks until the release of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, the director has finally unveiled his highly anticipated epic ...

A Future Ukraine is Imagined in Exclusive Trailer for Valentyn Vasyanovych’s To the Victory!

After landing on our radar with his remarkable, formally fascinating Atlantis, Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych has returned with To the Victory!, which...

A Buñuelian Fable Unfolds in Exclusive Trailer for Karla Badillo’s TIFF Premiere Oca

Making its world premiere this Tuesday as part of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival's Discovery section, Karla Badillo's directorial debut Oca tells...

TIFF Review: Romain Gavras’ Sacrifice is a Pop Satire That Falls Flat

It’s not too grand a statement to say the environment you watch a film in will heavily impact how you feel about it. This was the case with Sacrifice, a suppos...

Die My Love Trailer: Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson Unravel in Lynne Ramsay’s Psychological Drama

After a Cannes Film Festival premiere, it was rumored that Lynne Ramsay went back to the editing room to tighten up Die My Love, her first feature since 2017's...

TIFF Review: Bouchra is an Aesthetically Bold, Personal Animation

Based on a real-life conversation shared by co-director Meriem Bennani and her own mother, Bouchra (co-directed with Orian Barki and co-written by them and Ayl...

Venice Review: Pietro Marcello’s Duse Serves a Straightforward Tribute to a Legendary Prima Donna

In 1921, three years since the end of WWI, a train departed the small town of Aquileia in northeastern Italy. Draped in flags and wreathes, it carried the coff...

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

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

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

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

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

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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