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Cannes Review: ‘Fire Will Come’ is a Taut, Grounded Slow Burn

In the mountainous woodland of Galicia, northwestern Spain, fires mean extreme heat or lightning strikes, but sometimes they’re provoked. Political protest, cor...

Jesse Eisenberg Plots Revenge in New Trailer for ‘The Art of Self-Defense’

Following up his intense, darkly humorous cult drama Faults, director Riley Stearns returns this summer with The Art of Self-Defense. Starring Jesse Eisenbe...

Cannes Review: ‘An Easy Girl’ is a Summer Popsicle of a Movie with the Flair of Luca Guadagnino and Éric Rohmer

Rebecca Zlotowski, director of the fascinating, disturbing romance Grand Central with Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim, and the rather less successful Natalie Portma...

Cannes Review: ‘Family Romance, LLC’ is a Fascinating, Characteristically Bizarre Experiment from Werner Herzog

Had you searched the words "Family Romance" a few weeks before the Cannes Film Festival you would have come across a site for a Tokyo-based business. You would...

‘The Nightingale’ Trailer: A Young Woman Vows Bloody Vengeance in Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Babadook’ Follow-Up

After her revelatory and harrowing feature The Babadook heralded Jennifer Kent to international acclaim, expectations have been high for her second feature ...

Cannes Review: ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood’ is Quentin Tarantino’s Flawed, Ravishing Fetishization of ’60s Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino returns in a haze of cigarettes, cocktails, razzle-dazzle, and psychedelic rock with Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood, a jarring concoction of...

‘Booksmart’ Review: Olivia Wilde’s Directorial Debut is an Episodic, Yet Affecting Ode to Friendship

The universality of the reminiscence bump - the oft-researched theory that throughout one’s life, people have the most vivid memories from the ages of 16 to 25 ...

‘Anthropocene: The Human Epoch’ Trailer Shows Humanity’s Impact on the Planet

An official selection at TIFF, Sundance, Berlin, and more, Kino Lorber has unveiled the first trailer for the visually awe-inspiring documentary, Anthropoce...

New Red Band Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

Premiering at Cannes Film Festival today is Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a full two months ahead of the theatrical release, one of the...

Cannes Review: Isabelle Huppert Shines in Ira Sachs’ Stilted ‘Frankie’

In Frankie, the scattered personae of an unconventional family gather in the seaside Portuguese town of Sintra for what might be the last time. The matriarch, a...

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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