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Alex Ross Perry Makes a Fake Pavement Biopic with Range Life Trailer

Six years since his last solo directing feature, Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry returned to the world of rock in a very different way with Pavements. A tribute to ...

In the Lost Lands Review: Paul W.S. Anderson Finds Poetry In the Fantasy Epic

“The world is a vampire” –– Billy Corgan, 1995 Before jumping directly into the action, Paul W.S. Anderson's In the Lost Lands opens with a framing de...

New Directors/New Films Unveils 2025 Lineup

After showcasing work from the likes of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Almodóvar, Souleymane Cissé, Jia Zhangke, Spike Lee, Lynne R...

Matías Piñeiro on You Burn Me, Departing Shakespeare, and Hong Sangsoo’s Constant Reinvention

"Focus the text" commands a translation app pop-up at the mid-point of Matías Piñeiro’s new experimental essay film You Burn Me. It’s a mantra that the Argenti...

X-Rated Trailer for Bruce LaBruce’s The Visitor Offers Up an Explicit Game of Seduction

After making a splash with his uncompromising incest drama Saint-Narcisse, underground Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce returned to Berlinale last year with Th...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Acclaimed French Thriller The Temple Woods Gang, Coming to NYC on March 12

Named one of the 10 best films of Cahiers du Cinéma back in 2023, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche's crime thriller The Temple Woods Gang is finally getting a proper U.S. ...

The Rule of Jenny Pen Review: John Lithgow Torments Geoffrey Rush in Depraved Psychological Horror

Three decades on from Brian De Palma’s gleefully unhinged psychological thriller Raising Cain, John Lithgow has once again found a cinematic role to showcase h...

Paris’ La Clef Revival Comes to New York for Week of Film Screenings; Watch Appreciations from Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter

Wherever you call home, it's hard to be invested in cinephile culture without a mind towards its health. It was hardly some casual choice when Sean Baker took ...

There’s Still Tomorrow Director Paola Cortellesi on Domestic Violence, Global Success, and Drawing From Italian Neorealism

After decades of celebrated performances in Italian cinema and television, Paola Cortellesi made her directorial debut with There's Still Tomorrow, a 1940s-set...

15 Films to See in March

After the relatively barren month of February and the awards season mercifully in the rearview, March finally brings the goods. From some of our favorite festi...

News

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Disclosure Day Trailer: Steven Spielberg Returns to Extraterrestrial Exploration

A Major Restoration Arrives in Exclusive Trailer for Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly

Exclusive Trailer for Bertrand Bonello-Scored Europe’s New Faces Covers a Troubled Continent

Reviews

The Voice of Hind Rajab Review: Kaouther Ben Hania Brings Questionable Palatability to the Genocide in Gaza

Avatar: Fire and Ash Review: James Cameron Gets His Hands Dirty

Ella McCay Review: A Living Legend’s Final Word on Hope and Forgiveness

Features

The Best 2026 Films We’ve Already Seen

The Best Undistributed Films of 2025

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2025

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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