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The Coens Return to the Western in First Trailer for ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’

Perhaps the best surprise we got when it comes to the fall movie season is we were getting a brand-new film from Joel and Ethan Coen. The Ballad of Buster S...

TIFF Review: ‘Life Itself’ is a Convoluted Tapestry of Tragic Circumstances

Morbid or not: I love when stationary characters turn to the camera only to be hit by a vehicle coming from offscreen. There's something that's just immensely s...

TIFF Review: ‘Giant Little Ones’ Explores the Damage of Homophobia and Toxic Masculinity

Writer/director Keith Behrman knows exactly what he's doing when introducing a variety of people along the sexuality spectrum in his latest film Giant Little On...

TIFF Review: ‘Out of Blue’ is an Off-Putting Noir Full of Red Herrings

It's comforting to discover that the Martin Amis novel Carol Morley's Out of Blue adapts is considered a "comedic parody" because I couldn't wrap my head around...

TIFF Review: ‘Skin’ is a Harrowing Journey of Self-Recognition

Bryon 'Babs' Widner (Jamie Bell) hears the buzz of a faulty electrical connection, triggering a transition to an operating table and screams as the tattoos cove...

TIFF Review: ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Features a Charismatic Kristen Stewart Tricking the Literary World

Kristen Stewart’s young career is peppered with highs–most notably, Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper–but the actress has never been m...

Venice Review: ‘Memories of My Body’ Intelligently Understands Gender

Gender complicates everything. It dictates how our we live our lives. The image that we project is usually aligned with the image we were saddled with at birth,...

Venice Review: ‘As I Lay Dying’ Lethargically Transposes the Faulkner Classic to Contemporary Iran

In William Faulkner’s elegiac southern gothic tale As I Lay Dying there’s an oft-cited passage that resonates with the novel’s core theme of radical subjectivit...

TIFF Review: ‘A Faithful Man’ is a Self-Aware, Light-Hearted Romantic Farce

Beginning on a shot of the Paris cityscape–yes, the Eiffel Tower plainly in view and everything that surrounds it–Louis Garrel’s A Faithful Man self-awarely ann...

TIFF Review: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ is an Exquisite, Painful, and Timeless Love Story

Comparing a director’s latest film to his or her previous effort is almost always unwise, or at least, a bit foolish. When both films are extraordinary achievem...

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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