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Free Time Review: Colin Burgess Searches for Meaning in the Modern World in Star-Making Turn

Free Time opens on an office meeting between Drew (Colin Burgess) and his boss. Drew is dissatisfied with his data-analysis position because it’s too much data...

SXSW Review: Bob Trevino Likes It is a Sweet, Kind, and Emotionally Satisfying Comedy

A crowd-pleasing film inspired by director Tracie Laymon’s experience talking with a stranger online at a low point in her life, Bob Trevino Likes It is a movi...

New to Streaming: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Road House, Anselm, Dad & Step-Dad & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

Dev Patel’s Out for Revenge In New Trailer for Directorial Debut Monkey Man

After nearly two decades of work in front of the camera, Dev Patel has crafted his directorial debut with the actioner Monkey Man. The Jordan Peele-produced fe...

The Cronenberg Legacy Continues with Trailer for Caitlin Cronenberg’s Debut Humane

When your surname's a noun, adjective, and verb it behooves one to keep up the family legacy. As Brandon Cronenberg continued his feature-filmmaking career wit...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Diving into Dune, Oscar Nights, Kubrick, Blaxploitation, Akerman & More

We are somehow now into the spring season, and while cinemas have been a tad dull (minus a few gems like Love Lies Bleeding, Drive-Away Dolls, and Dune: Part T...

The B-Side – Don Cheadle (with Mitchell Beaupre)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...

Chime Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Mid-Length Chiller Doesn’t Stay Long But Leaves Its Mark

How do you even start to write about Chime, a film that keeps secrets guarded and lives off the shocks of its knife-edge turns? It’s safe to say the director i...

All the Long Nights Review: With Stargazing Melodrama, Shô Miyake Confirms His Hushed, Unhurried Style

Shô Miyake's All the Long Nights is a film about small things: decency, kindness, why people help each other out, how those acts can inspire others. The first ...

In a Violent Nature Trailer: If Béla Tarr Made a Horror Slasher, It Would Look Like This

What new perspective can one bring to the horror genre? With his directorial debut, Chris Nash answers this question with a resoundingly brutal and formally fa...

News

David Fincher’s Remastered Se7en Comes to IMAX to Kick Off 2025

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Trailers

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Find Pleasure in New Trailer for Babygirl

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

Appreciating a Pioneer: Pittsburgh Celebrates Queer Local Filmmaker Roger Jacoby with World Premiere Restorations

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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