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TIFF Review: ‘Endless Night’ Pleases the Eye, But Not Totally the Mind

Outside of Pedro Costa and Ted Fendt, it’s been hard to detect the aesthetic influence of radical filmmaking duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet on contem...

Frank Ocean Carries the First Trailer for Trey Edward Shults’ ‘Waves’

A surprise addition to the fall release calendar (and A24's packed slate) is the latest film from Krisha and It Comes at Night director Trey Edward Shults. Foll...

Venice Review: Timothée Chalamet Holds Court in David Michôd’s ‘The King’

Oh, for a muse of bowl-cut hair that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention! A newly groomed Timothée Chalamet stars as Henry V in David Michôd's l...

‘Mister America’ Trailer: Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s ‘On Cinema’ Goes to the Big Screen

Ostensibly a parody of know-nothing movie-review culture couched in Tim Heidecker's inimitable, increasingly prevalent "weirdness," the long-running On Cine...

Michael B. Jordan Fights for Justice in First Trailer for ‘Just Mercy’

After his break-out drama Short Term 12, which featured some of the greatest early performances from today's top stars, director Destin Daniel Cretton took ...

Posterized September 2019: ‘Ad Astra,’ ‘IT Chapter Two,’ ‘The Death of Dick Long,’ and More

We explore the art of the month. September is here with a fantastic collection of poster designs from big studio pictures to small independents looking to standout against them....

First Look at Jia Zhangke’s New Documentary ‘So Close to My Land’

Following his latest narrative feature, Ash Is Purest White–one of the finest U.S. releases of the year–Jia Zhangke quickly embarked on his next project, wh...

U.S. Trailer for Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Thriller ‘First Love’

The films of Takashi Miike don't always get U.S. distribution, but thankfully after a strong response at Cannes, his latest feature First Love will arrive t...

Gaspar Noé Puts the Story in Order in First Trailer for ‘Irréversible – Straight Cut’

With one of his most acclaimed films, Climax, getting a U.S. release this year (and now on Amazon Prime) as well as a brand-new medium-length work, Lux Æter...

Richard Kelly Possibly Returning with Rod Serling Biopic

Barring an unforseen arrival between now and 11:59:59 on December 31, we will have gone a stem-to-stern decade sans Richard Kelly. The wormhole-traveling mi...

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

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Reviews

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

Features

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

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

New to Streaming: Pillion, Is God Is, Erupcja, Omaha & 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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