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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...

Cannes Review: ‘Little Joe’ Blooms a Sterile World with a Muddled Conceit

Jessica Hausner’s English-language debut Little Joe promises a crossbreed of shrewd science fiction and health care satire, but it scuppers its genre creds in e...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 348 – John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

We discuss the balletic, no holds barred action of John Wick's third outing....

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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