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Camden Review: ‘Angels Are Made of Light’ Presents a Vastly Different Perspective on Modern Afghanistan

In the 12 years since his Oscar-nominated documentary Iraq in Fragments, director James Longley has been in search of a suitable follow-up. A project on Iran fe...

Review: ‘Don’t Leave Home’ Turns Idyllic Natural Beauty into an Ominous Force

Don’t Leave Home has an opening composition reminiscent of a postcard and a closing moment like a strange dream. Between these moments is a film that turns idyl...

Review: ‘Lizzie’ is a Feminist Tale About Finding Liberty Through Death

The morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden discovered the bodies of her father and stepmother who had been axed to death in their house. She went on to become...

TIFF Review: ‘Monsters and Men’ is a Triptych about Tough Choices with No Easy Answers

The conversation surrounding Black Lives Matter is (and should be) about the victims of police violence who've yet to see any killers in blue face real conseque...

TIFF Review: ‘Hotel Mumbai’ is a Dangerously Myopic Terrorism Thriller

By Bedatri D. Choudhury I remember the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks very well; my family and I were in Delhi for a cousin’s wedding and cooped up in a hote...

TIFF Review: ‘The Hummingbird Project’ is a Bizarre Meditation on Late Capitalism

By Bedatri D. Choudhury Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project depicts a strange bromance between cousins Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgår...

TIFF Review: American Dharma Finds Errol Morris Getting Lost in the Fog of War

It’s impossible to separate American Dharma, the latest film from legendary documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, from the controversy surrounding its subject. S...

‘Private Life’ Trailer: Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti Try to Have a Baby in Tamara Jenkins’ Long-Awaited Return

Tamara Jenkins’ 2007 film The Savages, starring Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a pair of dysfunctional siblings, was one of the best movies of ...

TIFF Review: ‘Mid90s’ is an Authentic Look at Growing Up That Occasionally Rings Hollow

The summer between middle school and high school is a formative one for any kid. There's this sense of moving away from childhood and towards young adulthood — ...

TIFF Review: ‘High Life’ is an Astounding Sensorial and Emotional Achievement in Sci-Fi Filmmaking

While High Life has understandably drawn all kinds of comparisons to the 60s and 70s cerebral sci-fi canon (notably Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey), for both...

News

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

First Look at Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms Follow-Up King’s Daughters Starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Catherine Breillat Sets Next Film With The German Cousin

Trailers

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Reviews

Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries

The Wizard of Kremlin Review: An Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian

Cannes Review: Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam Can’t Find a Rhythm

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

Interviews

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

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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