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‘The Command’ Review: An Examination of Negligence, Told Plainly and Mercilessly

In the summer of 2000, the Russian submarine named Kursk took on a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, the first of its kind since the fall of the Soviet Union a...

NYC Weekend Watch: ‘Police Story,’ Jarmusch, ‘Paris Is Burning’ & More

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repe...

Watch Claire Denis’s Rare ‘Keep It for Yourself,’ Starring Vincent Gallo

Le Cinéma Club, the boutique one-per-week streaming service, returns with... admittedly, vengeance is a strong word, so maybe not that, but certainly a thro...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 351 – Domino

Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham and I are joined by Adam Nayman to talk about the...

BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘Sunrise/Sunset’ Gazes on NYC as a Foreign Metropolis

The story of filmmaking in New York City is incomplete without consideration of the foreign-language films that are regularly made here. Such films—off the top ...

Clint Eastwood Sets Sam Rockwell and ‘BlackKklansman’ Actor for ‘Richard Jewell’

Long-developing, now active in a major way, Richard Jewell is likely Clint Eastwood's next directorial project (and follow-up to absolute heater The Mule). ...

‘Men in Black: International’ Review: New Cast Offers Old Tricks With Some Twisty Updates

A million years (actually 22/23 years) ago, the world was given two Will Smith-starring, alien-fighting blockbusters within 364 days of one another. And though ...

The Best Films of 2019 (So Far)

2019 is nearing the halfway mark, so it's time to take a look back at the first six months and round up our favorite titles thus far....

BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘The Hottest August’ is an Expressive, Expansive Portrait of Summer in NYC

Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all...

Cannes Review: ‘Atlantics’ Captures the Migrant Crisis Through a Ghost Tale of Perturbing Beauty

Somewhere along the stretch of Senegalese coastline where Mati Diop’s feature-length directorial debut Atlantics takes place, a futuristic tower stands tall and...

News

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

First Look at Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms Follow-Up King’s Daughters Starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Catherine Breillat Sets Next Film With The German Cousin

Trailers

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Reviews

Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries

The Wizard of Kremlin Review: An Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian

Cannes Review: Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam Can’t Find a Rhythm

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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