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Review: ‘The Competition’ is a Gratifying, Nerve-wracking Look at France’s Top Film School

In the age-old divide (perhaps most evident in the United States) between film production and criticism, crossed by certain pioneers yet often left unbridged, i...

First Trailer for S. Craig Zahler’s ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Starring Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson

After crafting a pair of the most impressively-written B-movie genre blasts in recent years with Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99, S. Craig Zahler r...

‘Her Smell’ Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Flirts with Death in Alex Ross Perry’s Intimate Punk Epic

In a not-so-bold prediction, when the books are closed on 2019 films, few performances will stand out as much as Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell. Alex Ross Perr...

The Film Stage Show Classic – Devil in a Blue Dress

We discuss Carl Franklin's drama, starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins, in a special Patreon-backed episode....

Isabelle Huppert Gets Her Snow White in First Trailer for Anne Fontaine’s ‘Pure as Snow’

Recently impressing with her spiritually poignant drama The Innocents, director Anne Fontaine is back, this time having a bit more fun. Pure as Snow is an e...

Berlin Review: ‘Piranhas’ is a Perceptive Yet Formulaic Immersion into the World of Neapolitan Teen Gangs

The kids roaming around the streets of Naples in Claudio Giovannesi’s Piranhas snort cocaine, hang out with hookers, and fire assault weapons. They are the bare...

Review: ‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ is a Satisfying Final Chapter

It's not often a studio as big as Dreamworks goes on record to say the third installment of a critically acclaimed series and box office success will be its las...

Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are ‘The Highwaymen’ in First Trailer

Over 50 years after Bonnie and Clyde heralded a new kind of crime film in Hollywood, their story has been revisited numerous times. The latest iteration com...

Berlin Review: ‘Synonyms’ is an Unsettling, Dazzling Film About Conflicted Nationality

Relocation becomes dislocation in director Nadav Lapid’s intense, beguiling Synonyms. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the story follows a...

First Trailer for Michael Jackson Sex Abuse Documentary ‘Leaving Neverland’ Uncovers Dark Memories

One of the longest films at this year's Sundance Film Festival was also the most harrowing and controversial. Leaving Neverland, spanning two parts and four...

News

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

First Look at Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms Follow-Up King’s Daughters Starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Catherine Breillat Sets Next Film With The German Cousin

Trailers

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Reviews

Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries

The Wizard of Kremlin Review: An Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian

Cannes Review: Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam Can’t Find a Rhythm

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“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

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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