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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Trailer: Aardman Animations Returns This Winter

While Aardman creations Wallace and Gromit have seen their universe expanded with Shaun the Sheep films and even videogames, they haven't been prominent in a p...

NYFF Review: Apocalypse in the Tropics is an Exposé of Brazil’s Politically Active Religious Right

Five years, the closest presidential election in Brazilian history, and one insurrection after her last examination of Brazil’s tumultuous socio-political sphe...

The Criterion Collection’s January Lineup Includes The Mother and the Whore, Akira Kurosawa, and Anthony Mann on 4K

It's October, which means Criterion's already thinking about 2025. Their new year auspiciously starts with a 4K UHD release of Jean Eustache's magnum opus The ...

The Best 2024 Fall Film Festival Premieres

While there's a few more fall film festivals popping up in the next month, the major ones are behind us, which means we have a strong sense of the films to hav...

BFI London Review: The Brothers Quay Find Stunning Textures In Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously controlled; balleti...

First Trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Bird Starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski

Returning to Cannes Film Festival with her first narrative feature in eight years, Andrea Arnold's coming-of-age fable Bird brought together Barry Keoghan, Fra...

NYFF Review: The Damned Flirts With Documentary and Reenactment in a Frigid Civil War Sojourn

Robert Minervini’s The Damned begins with two wolves tearing into a elk carcass, ripping off its fur and chewing its intestines. This isn’t a nature ...

Hamburg Review: Love Conjures a Truthful, Soothing Nordic Take on Romance

It takes confidence to name your film––simply and so very unspecifically––Love. Michael Haneke could get away with it for giving us the classic that is Amour. ...

NYFF Review: TWST / Things We Said Today Captures Beatlemania in Unexpected Ways

Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today exists in the world of Beatlemania. It uses archival footage from the lead-up to the Beatles conc...

BFI London Review: Eat the Night Mixes Compelling Teenage Malaise With Conventional Crime Drama

Jane Schoenbrun didn’t invent movies exploring teenage malaise and identity through the lens of pop culture, but in the opening moments of Caroline Poggi and J...

News

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

December on the Criterion Channel Includes Bob Dylan, John Waters, MTV & More

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

Trailers

U.S. Trailer for Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here Introduces Brazil’s Oscar Entry

The Wages of Fear Returns In Explosive Trailer for 4K Restoration

Asif Kapadia and Samantha Morton Imagine the Future in Trailer for La Jetée-Inspired 2073

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Film Stage’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

New to Streaming: A Different Man, The Outrun, My Old Ass, Used Cars & More

Interviews

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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