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TIFF Review: Stellan Skarsgård & Andrea Bræin Hovig Search for ‘Hope’ in Revelatory Drama

Tomas (Stellan Skarsgård) was married with three children when Anja (Andrea Bræin Hovig) met him. She didn't want to fall in love, but twenty years and three mo...

TIFF Review: ‘Maria’s Paradise’ Goes Inside a Community of Malleable Souls

At twelve years old, Maria Åkerblom heard the voice of an angel. It came in a dream and she spoke its words to those around her as though in a trance. She becam...

TIFF Review: ‘Love Me Tender’ is a Strangely Enchanting Survival Story

Seconda (Barbara Giordano) is the second born child of Augusto (Maurizio Tabani) and Dominique (Anna Galante) and she cannot leave the house. Her agoraphobia mi...

‘The Cave’ Trailer: Feras Fayyad Returns to War Following His Oscar-Nominated ‘Last Men in Aleppo’

After the recent success of documentaries like Jane and Free Solo, National Geographic has released the trailer for their next documentary. The Cave conveys...

TIFF Review: ‘Liberté’ is an Uncompromising Howl in the Wind Against the Notions of Good Taste

Finally, evil in cinema is back! That was the impression running through the mind of this writer during all 132 minutes of Albert Serra’s Liberté, a film so tho...

TIFF Review: ‘The Truth’ Finds Hirokazu Kore-eda Out of His Element

If we want to start with the problems of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth, we can look at the title. When it’s revealed at the beginning that the title comes from ...

New to Streaming: ‘The Matrix’ Trilogy, ‘The Dead Don’t Die,’ ‘Hail, Caesar!,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO, MUBI, and more....

NYC Weekend Watch: Satoshi Kon, Piotr Szulkin, ‘The Big Combo’ & More

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

The B-Side – Jennifer Lopez

Today, as we all celebrate the forthcoming release of Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers in our own way, here we discuss Jennifer Lopez, the multi-hyphenate queen herself....

TIFF Review: David Cronenberg Steals the Show in the Niagara Falls-Set Mystery ‘Clifton Hill’

If you’ve grown up on the American side of Niagara Falls, Clifton Hill means two things. The Ontario tourist destination is an enjoyably garish bit of Las Vegas...

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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