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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...

The B-Side – Kevin Costner

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

News

The Criterion Collection’s September Lineup Features Leos Carax 4K Set, The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater, Satyajit Ray & More

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

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

Trailers

Barrio Triste Trailer: Bad Bunny Collaborator Stillz’s Bold Directorial Debut Arrives In July

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Sophia Takal’s Act One Feels Like a Lucid Nightmare

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

Read This: Wonderful and Strange Peaks, the Life of Hannibal Lecter, a Century of Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese’s Filmography & More

“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

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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