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Cannes Review: ‘Diego Maradona’ is Another Compelling Study of Fame and Genius from Asif Kapadia

Professional football (or soccer, if it pleases) has never really lent its wonders to the big screen. Lacking the glitz of North America's more popular team spo...

Cannes Review: ‘Sibyl’ is an Alluring, Unbalanced Erotic Thriller

Cannes’s competition slate closes with Sibyl, an alluring but ultimately throwaway erotic thriller, an arthouse-inflected French potboiler starring Virginie Efi...

Cannes Review: With ‘Parasite,’ Bong Joon-ho Delivers an Electrifying Assessment of Social Stratification

Basements are a recurring motif in the cinema of Bong Joon-ho. From the tunnels running below the apartment building of Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), to the t...

‘Brightburn’ Review: A Grim, Gory, and Illogical Retelling of the Superman Myth

Brutal and bludgeoning, David Yarovesky's Brightburn is a film designed to knock the breath from your chest and subvert expectations. An alien infant crash-land...

‘The Perfection’ Review: A Cheap Gimmick That Yearns for Profundity

Richard Shepard’s taunting, genre-bending The Perfection is tailor-made for Netflix. That’s not meant as a derogatory statement about the platform’s “Originals...

Cannes Review: ‘A White, White Day’ is a Virtuosic, Darkly Comic Journey Through Grief

The phrase a "white, white day" refers to a moment when the landscape and sky are so dense with snow, mist or fog that it is no longer clear where the two meet....

New to Streaming: ‘Aniara,’ Cannes 2019 Shorts, ‘Moonlight,’ ‘The Perfection,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of Netflix, Amazon, MUBI, and more....

NYC Weekend Watch: Decolonizing Cinema, ‘Mission: Impossible’ Weekend, ‘Under the Cherry Moon’ & More

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

Terrence Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’ Will Stay Intact for Theatrical Release, But Quentin Tarantino Eyes ‘Hollywood’ Expansion

As filmmakers spend all-nighters in the editing suite in order to submit their latest work in time for festival premieres, it's no surprise that during the ...

‘Freaks’ Trailer Introduces an Imaginative World of Sci-Fi Horror

Are you ready for some old-fashioned scares before the summer closes out? Following its world premiere at last year's TIFF, Well Go USA Entertainment has un...

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

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Traverse Giallo Underworld In Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

Exclusive Trailer for 4K Restoration of Jae-young Kwak’s My Sassy Girl Reintroduces the South Korean Hit

James Baldwin Arrives In Paris In Trailer for Yashaddai Owens’ Jimmy, Opening This July

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

“There’s No Incentive for a Filmmaker to Retire”: Alex Cox on Returning With Dead Souls

“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

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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