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TIFF Review: ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Captures the Outback Outlaws with a Punk Rock Mood

True History of the Kelly Gang opens with a title card stating that nothing in the film is actually true, a convenient choice for director Justin Kurzel as it l...

Alexander Payne to Direct Mads Mikkelsen in New Drama for Netflix

With films from Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarón, Noah Baumbach, Steven Soderbergh, and even Orson Welles in their library, Netflix is set to release another...

TIFF Review: ‘Saturday Fiction’ is Bursting with Sumptuous Movie-Movie Atmosphere

A filmmaker perhaps too prolific for his own good, Lou Ye takes his latest spin ‘round the festival circuit with Saturday Fiction, a movie stuffed to bursting w...

TIFF Review: ‘Love Child’ is an Invaluable, Objective Look at Asylum Seekers

The year "2012" doesn't appear at the beginning of Eva Mulvad's documentary Love Child because it's an era-specific story. No well-known international news head...

TIFF Review: ‘Jallikattu’ is a Visceral Journey that Builds to an Exhilarating, Brutal Climax

The day breaks and the rhythm of a community sparks with music, breathing, and rote action that keeps everyone in a familiar balance. They visit Varney the butc...

TIFF Review: ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ is a Cynical, Turgid Adaptation from Edward Norton

Few films come out in any given year with creative choices as baffling as the ones made by Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn. The story goes that when the nov...

New to Streaming: ‘Upstream Color,’ ‘The Third Wife, ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid,’ ‘Yesterday,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of The Criterion Channel, Netflix, Amazon, MUBI, and more....

NYC Weekend Watch: ‘Andrei Rublev,’ John Singleton, Lily Tomlin & More

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

‘América’ Review: A Deeply Empathetic, Bittersweet Portrait of Family

My grandmother ignited my love for the movies. When I was four and spent most of my days in her home, she made sure there was always a fresh stack of videocasse...

TIFF Review: ‘Guns Akimbo’ Sets Daniel Radcliffe in a Death Match with ‘Crank’-Esque Insanity

Just because you can troll the trolls on the internet from the comfort of your couch while wearing nothing but underwear and a bathrobe doesn't mean you should....

News

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

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

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

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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