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BIFF Review: ‘Malaisia’ Boldly Conveys a Love Triangle Tale

There's a joke told about a third of the way through Mac Cappuccino's film Malaisia. It's bad. Jay Schmidt is the one laying out the excessive amount of exposit...

NYC Weekend Watch: Absurd Comedy, ‘Pola X,’ Bob Fosse & More

The best films playing in NYC this weekend....

The B-Side – Will Smith

We go Big Willie Style on The B-Side and discuss Seven Pounds, After Earth, Focus and Collateral Beauty. ...

First Trailer for Mati Diop’s Cannes Winner ‘Atlantics’

Niece to the great Djibril Diop Mambéty, Mati Diop has been on our radar for a while, with excellent short films and performances in 35 Shots of Rum, Simon ...

Gregg Turkington, the World’s #1-Ranked Movie Expert, on Film Bloggers and ‘Mister America’

You'll be forgiven for not realizing one of this decade's most enveloping, complex, haunting, and haunted performances exists almost exclusively on a bite-sized Adult Swim series....

BFI London Review: ‘White Riot’ is a Thrilling, Incendiary Look at Punk’s Influence on Politics

There was a time when it seemed music might have the power to change the world—or at the very least, move the needle. The knee-jerk reaction to such a statement...

NYFF Review: With ‘The Cotton Club Encore,’ Francis Ford Coppola Brings Grandeur to New Reworking

Francis Ford Coppola had already cemented his Hollywood legacy after a string of critical and commercial successes in the 1970s, but discussion of his filmograp...

‘Light From Light’ Trailer: A Grounded Ghost Story Like None You’ve Seen Before

If the jump scares and horror set pieces of Paranormal Activity or The Conjuring franchises were exchanged for an authentic reckoning of the tangled emotion...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 367 – Joker

We discuss Todd Phillips' comic book movie starring Joaquin Phoenix....

Olivier Assayas on Re-Editing Wasp Network, Lifting from Martin Scorsese, and Cinematography Challenges

We talk to the director about his Cuba-set thriller at the 57th New York Film Festival....

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

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

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

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 Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

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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