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‘Men in Black: International’ Review: New Cast Offers Old Tricks With Some Twisty Updates

A million years (actually 22/23 years) ago, the world was given two Will Smith-starring, alien-fighting blockbusters within 364 days of one another. And though ...

The Best Films of 2019 (So Far)

2019 is nearing the halfway mark, so it's time to take a look back at the first six months and round up our favorite titles thus far....

BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘The Hottest August’ is an Expressive, Expansive Portrait of Summer in NYC

Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all...

Cannes Review: ‘Atlantics’ Captures the Migrant Crisis Through a Ghost Tale of Perturbing Beauty

Somewhere along the stretch of Senegalese coastline where Mati Diop’s feature-length directorial debut Atlantics takes place, a futuristic tower stands tall and...

Cannes Review: ‘Port Authority’ is a Quietly Radical, Deceptively Simple Romance

A deceptively simple romance doesn’t take away that there is something quietly radical at work in the New York love story Port Authority, set in the underground...

‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ Review: Martin Scorsese Playfully Returns to Bob Dylan’s World

Martin Scorsese has had a long, fruitful partnership with rock ’n’ roll as muse, subject, and accompaniment, and one thing at which he’s uniquely skilled is dra...

Anton Yelchin’s Enduring Legacy is Explored in the First Trailer for ‘Love, Antosha’

Anton Yelchin’s untimely death at the age of 27 almost three years ago shocked the world. From Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek franchise to his involvement...

Cannes Review: ‘Zombi Child’ is a Slow-Creeping Horror Satire

Bertrand Bonello’s last film, the terrorism-themed thriller Nocturama, hit headlines as it was released in the wake of Islamic State terror attacks in France. S...

Cannes Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ is Bruno Dumont’s Austere, Mystic Follow-up to ‘Jeannette’

When Jeannette world premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2017, Bruno Dumont’s acolytes were left grappling with a taxonomical head-scratcher. Lo and be...

Cannes Review: ‘Invisible Life’ is an Achingly Beautiful Tale of Sisterly Love

Karim Aïnouz’s Invisible Life is a tale of resistance. It hones in on two inseparable sisters stranded in–and ultimately pulled apart by–an ossified patriarcha...

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

The Criterion Collection Announces Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Set

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

Trailers

Remake Trailer: Ross McElwee Crafts the Most Heartbreaking Documentary of 2026

The Samurai and the Prisoner Trailer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Mystery Epic Arrives This July

Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee Tussle Over Legacy In Trailer for Kent Jones’ Late Fame

Reviews

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Heron, I Love Boosters, Tuner, The Sheep Detectives & More

The Best Films of 2026 (So Far)

NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Guy Maddin, Vincente Minnelli, Law of Desire & More

Interviews

“Memory Is Not Something You Can Trust”: Carla Simón on Romería, Family Stories, and Antonioni

“There Are Always Fascists to Defeat”: John Waters on the Enduring Legacy of His Films and Never Getting Cancelled

“It Was Our Job to Commit”: John Early on the Roman Empire, Paul Verhoeven, and Maddie’s Secret

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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