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Cannes Review: ‘Sibyl’ is an Alluring, Unbalanced Erotic Thriller

Cannes’s competition slate closes with Sibyl, an alluring but ultimately throwaway erotic thriller, an arthouse-inflected French potboiler starring Virginie Efi...

Cannes Review: With ‘Parasite,’ Bong Joon-ho Delivers an Electrifying Assessment of Social Stratification

Basements are a recurring motif in the cinema of Bong Joon-ho. From the tunnels running below the apartment building of Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), to the t...

‘Brightburn’ Review: A Grim, Gory, and Illogical Retelling of the Superman Myth

Brutal and bludgeoning, David Yarovesky's Brightburn is a film designed to knock the breath from your chest and subvert expectations. An alien infant crash-land...

‘The Perfection’ Review: A Cheap Gimmick That Yearns for Profundity

Richard Shepard’s taunting, genre-bending The Perfection is tailor-made for Netflix. That’s not meant as a derogatory statement about the platform’s “Originals...

Cannes Review: ‘A White, White Day’ is a Virtuosic, Darkly Comic Journey Through Grief

The phrase a "white, white day" refers to a moment when the landscape and sky are so dense with snow, mist or fog that it is no longer clear where the two meet....

New to Streaming: ‘Aniara,’ Cannes 2019 Shorts, ‘Moonlight,’ ‘The Perfection,’ and More

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

NYC Weekend Watch: Decolonizing Cinema, ‘Mission: Impossible’ Weekend, ‘Under the Cherry Moon’ & More

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

Terrence Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’ Will Stay Intact for Theatrical Release, But Quentin Tarantino Eyes ‘Hollywood’ Expansion

As filmmakers spend all-nighters in the editing suite in order to submit their latest work in time for festival premieres, it's no surprise that during the ...

‘Freaks’ Trailer Introduces an Imaginative World of Sci-Fi Horror

Are you ready for some old-fashioned scares before the summer closes out? Following its world premiere at last year's TIFF, Well Go USA Entertainment has un...

‘Mouthpiece’ Trailer: A Woman’s Inner Conflict Comes to Life

Following its world premiere at TIFF last year, the first trailer for the unique experimental film Mouthpiece has arrived for Mouthpiece, coming from direct...

News

New Restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils Leads Cannes Classics 2026 Lineup

Whit Stillman Plans Return with Adam Brody-Led A Night at Claridge’s; Sebastian Stan and Ana de Armas to Lead Felipe Gálvez’s Impunity

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Rare Touching the Skin of Eeriness Screens May 19

Trailers

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Kamal Aljafari Documents a Vanishing Land In Exclusive Trailer Debut for With Hasan in Gaza

Dominic Sessa is Anthony Bourdain in First Trailer for Matt Johnson’s Tony

Reviews

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) Review: Lucrecia Martel’s Essential Document of Indigenous Resistance

This is Not a Drill Review: A Sharp Portrait of Climate Activists Who Still Fight

Features

Posterized May 2026: Renoir, I Love Boosters, Backrooms & More

New to Streaming: A Magnificent Life, Wuthering Heights, Stranger Eyes, An Unfinished Film & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Tony Leung, Bellissima, Whisper of the Heart & More

Interviews

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

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

“Objectivity Is Not Possible”: Lucrecia Martel on Crafting Her First Documentary

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

The B-Sides of Steve Martin with Eric D. Snider

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