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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...

The B-Side – Kevin Costner

The films discussed include A Perfect World, The War, The Postman, Thirteen Days, 3000 Miles To Graceland and Dragonfly....

Sundance Review: ‘Mope’ Attempts to Find Comedy in a Dark, Sad Place

First off, it is important that the definition of mope is clear: a mope is a person in the porn industry operating in the lowest possible positions, usually ang...

Sundance Review: ‘Corporate Animals’ Takes a Huge Bite Out of an Easy Target

A corporate team-building retreat goes way bad in Corporate Animals, written by Sam Bain and directed by Patrick Brice. From the jump, it's a great hook. That p...

Trailer for ‘Giant Little Ones’ Affectingly Explores the Damage of Homophobia

Considering the breadth of films that arrive at the Toronto International Film Festival, a few gems can get lost in the shuffle. One to highlight as it open...

Trailer for Theatrical Restoration of Sergey Bondarchuk’s 7-Hour Epic ‘War and Peace’

The most expensive Soviet film in history has been stunningly restored. Sergey Bondarchuk's seven-hour-plus epic War and Peace, of course adapting Leo Tolst...

Review: The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we're reviewing each short category. See the Live Action section below and the other shorts sections here. Animal Behavi...

Review: The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we're reviewing each short category. See the Live Action section below and the other shorts sections here. A Night at th...

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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