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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...

Review: ‘Lords of Chaos’ Blends Norwegian Black Metal and Murder

Talk to "true" Norwegian black metal fans and they'll tell you Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind's book about the scene's origins and criminality is a bunch...

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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