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Berlin Review: Fourteen Considers the Complexities of Friendship with Deep Affectation

There is an uncomfortable, universal wound being picked at in Dan Sallitt's latest film, regardless of which of its characters the viewer relates to more. The ...

Review: ‘The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part’ is a Stale Sequel

The Lego Movie largely succeeded for two reasons: one, Lord & Miller’s gag-heavy comedic sensibility meshed well with Animal Logic’s kinetic, stop-motion-in...

Berlin Review: Lone Scherfig’s ‘The Kindness of Strangers’ Drowns in Mawkish Sentimentality

Where to begin with a film like The Kindness of Strangers? Well, Lone Scherfig’s new ensemble romance, which inexplicably opened the Berlin Film Festival this w...

New to Streaming: ‘Chungking Express,’ ‘High Flying Bird,’ ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ & More

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

NYC Weekend Watch: David O. Selznick, Jeff Goldblum, Altman & More

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

Review: ‘High Flying Bird’ Doubles as Dense Entertainment and Pure Experiment

It would come as some surprise if any one character actually hears, digests, and applies everything said to them through the course of High Flying Bird, a typic...

Review: ‘The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot’ Further Proves Sam Elliott’s Expertise

If there’s one thing The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot does right– aside from kill Hitler, of course–it is putting the fate of humankind in the han...

Sundance Review: ‘Ms. Purple’ Explores Sibling Love Vividly, Deeply

In Los Angeles, a brother and sister are brought back together as their father slips away. Such is the crux of Ms. Purple, the sophomore feature from writer/dir...

Sundance Review: ‘Greener Grass’ Wallows in Weirdness, Earns Laughs

Somewhere in a strange corner of suburbia lives two married couples: Nick (Beck Bennett) and Jill (Jocelyn DeBoer) & Lisa (Dawn Luebbe) and Dennis (Neil Cas...

Sundance Review: ‘The Sharks’ Offers a Coming-of-Age Story with Some Bite

There are many highlights that can come out of a well-curated international film festival, especially one as high profile as Sundance. At the top of that list i...

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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