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NYC Weekend Watch: Věra Chytilová, ‘Bad Lieutenant,’ Latin American Sci-Fi & More

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repe...

Great Things Come in Threes with Exclusive Trailer for Film Forum’s “Trilogies” Series

Alternately tidy and vast, Film Forum's forthcoming "Trilogies" series will serve the best one-two-three punches in cinema this spring. At 78 titles, it's s...

‘Your Name.’ Director Makoto Shinkai Returns with First Trailer for ‘Weathering with You’

Bested only by Spirited Away, Titanic, and Frozen, Makoto Shinkai's 2006 anime Your Name. is one of the highest-grossing films in Japan's history and now th...

‘Mary Magdalene’ Review: Rooney Mara is Divine in an Otherwise Flat Biblical Drama

There is one compelling reason to see Mary Magdalene, Lion director Garth Davis’ long-delayed drama, a notorious casualty of the death of the Weinstein Company....

Review: ‘Stockholm’ is a Farcical Crime Drama

The names have been changed. That might not mean much since "true stories" generally do that by making composites of certain characters to give the drama a more...

‘Stuber’ Trailer: Kumail Nanjiani Picks Up Dave Bautista for a Wild Ride

With the proliferation of ride-sharing apps, I imagine those reading this have had a few unpleasant experiences, but they don't quite compare with what driv...

Mike Leigh on ‘Peterloo,’ Revolution, Agnès Varda, and the Disease of Trump

We discuss why it would be reductionist for Peterloo to have a central character, how the terms freedom and liberty were used in the 19th century, why the United Kingdom still has a monarch, and his relationship to Agnès Varda’s work....

The Film Stage Show Ep. 341 – Ash Is Purest White

We discuss Jia Zhangke's epic starring Zhao Tao....

First Trailer for Bong Joon-ho’s Mysterious Thriller ‘Parasite’

After his globe-trotting, multi-lingual adventure Okja, Bong Joon-ho returned solely to South Korea for his follow-up, a smaller-scale, mysterious drama tit...

‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Review: Terry Gilliam Completes His Chaotic Journey With Mixed Results

Throughout his career as a director, Terry Gilliam has aimed to portray the outlandish and disorderly in imaginative, transportive ways. His greatest achievemen...

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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