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Free Time Trailer: Colin Burgess, Rajat Suresh, Jessie Pinnick & More Search for Meaning in the Modern World

One of the most promising American indies of the year, Ryan Martin Brown's Free Time brings together Colin Burgess, Rajat Suresh, Holmes, James Webb, Eric Yate...

Berlinale Review: A Traveler’s Needs is Hong Sangsoo’s Funniest Film in Years

Two things can be true at once. The old debate over whether Hong Sangsoo's cinema is overly earnest or self-aware was always a bit reductive––when the most lig...

Sam Mendes to Direct Four-Film Beatles Biopic Releasing in 2027

Like a chimera of any intelligent person's least-favorite storytelling models, we are (in the sense of a diagnosis) finally seeing the cinematic universe inter...

Second Trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War Imagines a Divided Near-Future America

After dividing audiences with Men, Alex Garland is back with what looks to be his most ambitious directorial outing yet. Civil War, which follows a divided, ne...

Berlinale Review: Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara Superbly Examines Paradoxes of Intimacy

The films of Canadian director Kazik Radwanski are freedom in its purest form, or the purest this particular medium can contain. Being the opposite of prescrip...

Lost in Translation Gets Deluxe Double LP Vinyl Release; Marie Antoinette Documentary in the Works

It's a good time to be a Sofia Coppola fan. Alongside last fall's release of one of her finest films, Priscilla, we got an expansive book detailing her career....

Berlinale Review: With The Empire, Bruno Dumont Delivers a Slack, Soaring Space Oddity

Playing his signature brand of rural French absurdity in stark counterpoint to the grandiose strains of a space opera, Bruno Dumont returns with The Empire: hi...

Berlinale Review: Sleep with Your Eyes Open Vividly Captures the Migrant Condition

Tucked deep into Don DeLillo’s Underworld is an exchange between the novel’s protagonist, Nick Shay, and one of his teachers, a Jesuit priest. It concerns lang...

Gore Verbinski, Ridley Scott, Mélanie Laurent & More Set Next Films

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a decade since the last film from Gore Verbinski, 2016's A Cure for Wellness, but after being attached to a handful of pr...

Yorgos Lanthimos Sets Next Film with Save the Green Planet Remake, Produced by Ari Aster

Update: As we predicted, Emma Stone will reunite with Yorgo Lanthimos for the film in a supporting role, Variety reports. Following up Poor Things, Yorgos L...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

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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