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Tribeca Review: ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ is a Spunky, Fun Look at America’s Sex Therapist

An affectionate documentary chronicling the life of 90-year-old Holocaust survivor and taboo breaker Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, is often de...

Tribeca Review: ‘Run’ is a Minor Yet Universal Ode to Emotions Captured Best by Springsteen

From the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland to Freehold, New Jersey the emotions are all the same: young men and women dream of abandoning the “suicide trap” of a sm...

Tribeca Review: ‘Crown Vic’ is a Chilling, Morally Ambiguous Police Procedural

Had Training Day been made today it would have to contend with the changing role of policing in the age of the body camera and the armchair lawyer with a tiny b...

Tribeca Review: Abel Ferrara’s ‘The Projectionist’ Sheds Light on Running Movie Theaters in a Changing Landscape

If anything, Abel Ferrara’s lovingly crafted personal documentary The Projectionist answers a question has plagued many a hardcore New York-based cinephile at o...

The Film Stage Show – The Best Movies of 1999

In a special episode, we are joined by Brian Raftery, author of Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen....

New to Streaming: ‘Burning,’ Joanna Hogg, ‘Knock Down the House,’ ‘Fighting with My Family,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of The Criterion Channel, Netflix, MUBI, and more....

NYC Weekend Watch: Abel Ferrara, Pasolini, Black ’90s & More

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

Abel Ferrara on Finding Light in the Darkness, NYC Post-9/11, and the Realities of the Film Industry

Our wide-ranging interview with the director, who has a number of projects to unveil this year–but don't call him prolific....

Prepare to ‘Crawl’ in First Trailer for Alexandre Aja’s Alligator Horror Thriller

A life-altering hurricane is bad enough, but add a human-hungry alligator to the mix and you'll wish the storm took you first. This is the set up for Crawl,...

The B-Side – The Avengers: Part II

We talk the B-Sides of Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, and Chris Hemsworth....

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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