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Review: ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ Tells an Engaging Tale of Innovation

The phrase "important film" covers all manner of cinematic sins. If a narrative speaks to a specific issue or disenfranchisement, it can make critique a little ...

Review: ‘The Wedding Guest’ is a Meandering, Frustrating Thriller

Like the protagonist of his latest film, The Wedding Guest, Michael Winterbottom is a wanderer–cinematically, that is. There are few filmmakers in modern cinema...

U.S. Trailer for Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Sets Adam Driver on a Surreal Adventure

Since 1989, Terry Gilliam has been attempting (and re-attempting) to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the trials and tribulations of which got its own d...

First Trailer for Nadav Lapid’s Golden Bear Winner ‘Synonyms’

Following 2014's The Kindergarten Teacher, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid returns this year with Synonyms. Telling the story of an Israeli man who move...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 334 – The Stagies

In cinema's most prestigious ceremony, we reveal the winners as nominated by us and voted on by you....

Rotterdam Review: ‘Present.Perfect.’ is an Unsettling Foray into China’s Live-Streaming Hysteria

In 2017, by the time the Chinese government began to furiously clamp down on the country’s live-broadcasting frenzy, a whopping 422 million Chinese regularly tu...

Ashton Sanders Leads the First Trailer for ‘Native Son’

After his breakthrough performance in Moonlight, Ashton Sanders finally received a major leading role at Sundance Film Festival this year with their Opening...

Rotterdam Review: ‘The Days to Come’ is an Engrossing, Energetic Elegy to Parenthood

“I lose my keys every other week. I’m a fraud of a person. Do you see me raising a kid?” When Vir finds out she’s pregnant, early into Carlos Marqués-Marcet eng...

First Trailer for Vincent D’Onofrio’s ‘The Kid’ Starring Ethan Hawke, Dane DeHaan, and Chris Pratt

In a surprise release of sorts, in just two weeks we'll be getting a new Pat Garrett/Billy the Kid western that has some promising talent behind of and in f...

New to Streaming: ‘Stalker,’ ‘Border,’ ‘Queen of Earth,’ ‘Lords of Chaos,’ and More

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

News

New Restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils Leads Cannes Classics 2026 Lineup

Whit Stillman Plans Return with Adam Brody-Led A Night at Claridge’s; Sebastian Stan and Ana de Armas to Lead Felipe Gálvez’s Impunity

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Rare Touching the Skin of Eeriness Screens May 19

Trailers

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Kamal Aljafari Documents a Vanishing Land In Exclusive Trailer Debut for With Hasan in Gaza

Dominic Sessa is Anthony Bourdain in First Trailer for Matt Johnson’s Tony

Reviews

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

Features

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Posterized May 2026: Renoir, I Love Boosters, Backrooms & More

Interviews

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

Podcasts

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

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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