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‘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 ...

News

John Sayles Sets Directing Return With I Passed This Way Starring Amy Madigan and Chris Cooper

KimStim Acquires Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path Remake for Summer Release

Nathan Silver Sets A Poet Remake as Next Feature

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

Obsession Review: A Nasty, Humorous Horror Breakout

Magic Hour Review: Katie Aselton and Daveed Diggs Work Through Complex Emotions

Features

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

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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