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Locarno Review: ‘The Fever’ is a Quiet, Heart-Breaking Story of Resilience in Brazil

By any conservative approximation, in the week that spanned the moment I left the Locarno screening of Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever and the minute I began writing th...

Locarno Review: ‘A Girl Missing’ is a Labyrinthine, Patchy New Drama by Koji Fukada

“Does someone who’s broken a family deserve a happy future?” teenage Motoko fires at middle-aged Ichiko halfway through Koji Fukada’s A Girl Missing. The woman ...

‘Greener Grass’ Trailer: Suburban Living Has Never Been Weirder

Adults wearing braces, children turning into dogs, giving away babies, giving birth to soccer balls, and more peculiar images abound in the first delightfully...

Natalie Portman is Drawn to Space in New Trailer for ‘Lucy In The Sky’

Fargo and Legion's Noah Hawley has made his feature film directorial debut with Lucy in the Sky starring Natalie Portman. Ahead of a TIFF bow and October re...

Our 20 Most-Anticipated 2019 Fall Festival Premieres

The films at Venice, TIFF, NYFF, and Telluride that we can't wait to see....

Locarno Review: Simon Bird’s Debut Film ‘Days of the Bagnold Summer’ is a Heartfelt, Twofold Coming-of-Age Tale

Laconic and moody, a Metallica t-shirt worn like a second skin, fifteen-year-old Daniel hobbles through his pastel-colored, chintzy home in a stretch of British...

‘American Factory’ Directors on Capitalism, Communism, and Capturing a U.S.-China Culture Clash

We talk to Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar about how they learned to depict management and employees fairly by not picking sides. ...

Simon Bird on his Feature Debut ‘Days of the Bagnold Summer,’ Comparisons to ‘The Inbetweeners,’ and Belle and Sebastian

We talk with the director about his gentle, heartfelt portrait of a preternaturally shy middle-aged mother, and her moody, laconic metalhead son....

Listen: Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson Discuss ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

We'll be hearing many conversations with Quentin Tarantino over the six months as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood segues from its theatrical run to awards season,...

Peter Sarsgaard Has a Unique Skill in the First Trailer for ‘The Sound of Silence’

What if our happiness wasn’t solely predicated on our fruitful relationships, career success, or spiritual fulfillment, but rather the sounds around us? It’...

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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