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‘Missing Link’ Review: Laika’s Epic Tells a Well-Worn Story with Beautiful Detail

The years between Laika releases–in which our eyes are exposed to hours of unimaginative, cookie-cutter Hollywood animation–always seems to be just enough time ...

Dick Pope on Peterloo, Drones, The Favourite, and His Distaste for Celluloid Projection

We talk to Mike Leigh's cinematographer about crafting a massacre....

Joaquin Phoenix is the ‘Joker’ in First Trailer for Todd Phillips’ Villainous Tale

The director of The Hangover trilogy is the latest to take the reins of the DC universe, delivering his own spin on a certain smiling infamous villain. Todd...

The Film Stage Show Classic – Funny Games

We discuss Michael Haneke's film(s), an influence on Jordan Peele's Us....

‘The Wind’ Review: Female-Fronted Horror Western Preys on Psychological Fears

A suicide. A stillborn baby. A woman holding the latter as she leaves the former to show her husband and the now widower father the results of the harrowing nig...

‘The Public’ Review: Emilio Estevez Taps into a Timely Anger

It's the same tragic story. Another unarmed Black man is killed by the police. Another White man takes an arsenal into a school, campus, or place of worship bef...

Zac Efron is Ted Bundy in New Trailer for ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’

With Netflix producing Joe Berlinger's documentary series on Ted Bundy, it was a no-brainer they would pick up the director's Zac Efron-led narrative take o...

Claire Denis to Reteam with Robert Pattinson for Adaptation of Denis Johnson’s ‘The Stars at Noon’

This week marks the arrival of what will hopefully be Claire Denis' biggest film in the U.S. to date, courtesy of the distributing powers of A24. High Life ...

First Trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s Star-Studded Zombie Comedy ‘The Dead Don’t Die’

Featuring "the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled," Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die will arrive this summer and today Focus Features has...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 340 – Favorite Films of 2019 So Far and Most-Anticipated of the Summer

We divert from our usual review episode to recap our favorite films of 2019 so far, some of which have yet to be discussed on the podcast. Then we look ahead at the coming months with our most-anticipated films of the summer....

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

The Uprising Trailer: Andrew Garfield Leads a Rebellion for Paul Greengrass

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

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