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‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’ Trailer Gives the Spanish Icon an Imaginative Biopic

Luis Buñuel has received the biopic treatment in a way that befits the visionary Spanish artist. Based on a graphic novel, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turt...

Béla Tarr on Restoring ‘Sátántangó,’ the Perfect Film School, and Completing His Filmography

Eight years on from announcing his retirement from filmmaking following the release of The Turin Horse, Hungarian maestro Béla Tarr is keeping busy....

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...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Reviews

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

New to Streaming: Pillion, Is God Is, Erupcja, Omaha & More

Interviews

“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

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

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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