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Cannes Review: ‘First Love’ is a Deliriously Violent Mob Film from Takashi Miike

The last film legendary Japanese ultra-violence auteur Takashi Miike brought to Cannes' Directors' Fortnight (Yakuza Apocalypse, 2015) featured a character that...

Cannes Review: ‘Pain and Glory’ is One of Pedro Almodóvar’s Most Personal, Exceptional Works

Pedro Almodóvar, the punk chronicler of post-Francoist Spain, turns inwards for his 21st feature Pain and Glory, which arrives in competition at Cannes as a sum...

Cannes Review: ‘The Dead Don’t Die,’ and Neither Do Old Zombie Tropes

The zombies hobbling around the streets of the fictional, bucolic US city of Centerville have been awakened by global warming (specifically, from the ruthless f...

First Trailer for Woody Allen’s ‘A Rainy Day in New York’ Starring Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning & Selena Gomez

Update: Woody Allen has been given back the U.S. distribution rights to the film from Amazon Studios, Variety reports. It is not known yet if he will try to sel...

‘The Command’ Trailer: Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth, and Léa Seydoux Encounter Disaster

Now with a new title for U.S. audiences, a new trailer has just arrived for The Command (originally called Kursk), which features a talented ensemble includ...

Cannes Review: ‘Bacurau’ is a John Carpenter-Inspired, Politically-Fueled Revenge Fantasy

The school in the fictional village of Bacurau, located somewhere in the desert hinterlands of north-eastern Brazil, bears the name of one João Carpinteiro. If ...

New to Streaming: ‘Apollo 11,’ ‘Greta,’ ‘Charlie Says,’ and More

All the newly streaming films on Amazon, MUBI, and more....

NYC Weekend Watch: German Genre, ‘Dangerous Game,’ ‘Last Year at Marienbad’ & More

The best films playing in NYC this weekend....

Montclair Review: ‘Ms. White Light’ is an Odd, Tender, and Quirky Life and Death Drama

Written and directed by Paul Shoulberg, the odd and occasionally profound dark comedy Ms. White Light features a unique profession at its core: the morality ind...

Montclair Review: ‘Jules of Light and Dark’ Features Love, Longing, and a Sparse Narrative

Set deep in the heart of Texas, Daniel Laabs’ Jules of Light and Dark explores the landscape of recovery as an unlikely friendship is formed between college stu...

News

The Criterion Collection’s September Lineup Features Leos Carax 4K Set, The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater, Satyajit Ray & More

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Trailers

Barrio Triste Trailer: Bad Bunny Collaborator Stillz’s Bold Directorial Debut Arrives In July

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Sophia Takal’s Act One Feels Like a Lucid Nightmare

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

Read This: Wonderful and Strange Peaks, the Life of Hannibal Lecter, a Century of Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese’s Filmography & More

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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