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Review: ‘Boy Erased’ Tells a Story of Trauma with an Impersonal Lens

Few images might conjure as much terror and dread as seeing two Baptist church elders entering your home in the middle of the night. It's precisely what Jared E...

Review: ‘Monster Party’ Reverses ‘The Purge’ Conceit with Added Bloodlust

I have to think writer/director Chris von Hoffmann saw The Purge and wondered what could be born from reversing the good guy and bad guy roles. Those are generi...

Review: ‘Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain’ Looks at the Infinite Possibilities of a Technology Disruptor

Documentarian Alex Winter is solidifying his place within the tech world as a storyteller willing to look at modern systems stymying the old guard and exciting ...

Review: ‘Hunter Killer’ is an Expendable Throwback

Created for a world in which our President and the Russian President weren’t BFFs, Hunter Killer is an absurd and occasionally fun military thriller full of gra...

The B-Side – Jamie Lee Curtis

With the release of Halloween, we look at the underseen films from the original scream queen....

Sandra Bullock Goes on a Perilous Journey in First Trailer for ‘Bird Box’

In a stark turnaround from previous years, Netflix is having an incredible fall when it comes their original films, with the release of critically acclaimed...

The Film Stage Show Special Report – Chicago International Film Festival 2018 (Part 2)

We discuss more films at the Chicago International Film Festival, including The Third Wife, Diane, Joy, and El Angel....

Review: ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ is an Unremarkable and Superficial Reboot

David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s 2005 bestseller, was most successful as a mood piece, one that provi...

New to Streaming: ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ ‘The Guilty,’ ‘Incredibles 2,’ ‘Shirkers,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and more....

‘Vox Lux’ Trailer: Natalie Portman is a Pop Star in Brady Corbet’s Drama

One of the best surprises of the fall season is that Brady Corbet's second feature, following the harrowing The Childhood of a Leader, will be arriving much...

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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