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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...

Venice Review: ‘Arrivederci Saigon’ Looks at the Vietnam War Through a Female Perspective

After Ken Burns’ exhaustive, comprehensive documentary series The Vietnam War aired last year there was little in the way of answers to the lingering question o...

Venice Review: ‘Soni’ Renders a Feminist Story Flat

When Alfred Hitchcock decided to shoot his parlor mystery-thriller Rope in what appeared to be one long, continuous take he unknowingly opened Pandora's box. Af...

First Trailer for SXSW Winner ‘Thunder Road’ Captures a Police Officer in Chaos

Officer Jim Arnaud has been having a rough go of it as of late. He lost his mother, his job, and custody of his daughter Crystal. These personal tragedies a...

Venice Review: ‘Shadow’ is a Stunning Wuxia Epic from Zhang Yimou

With its gorgeously choreographed sword duels, sabers slicing through paddles of blood and rain, watercolor bi-chromatic palettes and sumptuous costumes, Zhang ...

TIFF Review: ‘Angel’ Features a Luminous Breakthrough Performance by Fatou N’Diaye

Two lost souls struggling to reconcile their image meet in Senegal by chance. One's a prostitute — although she rejects the label and the registration card that...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

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

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

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

Reviews

Cannes Review: With Club Kid, Jordan Firstman Announces Himself as a Director to Watch

Cannes Review: Fatherland Finds Paweł Pawlikowski in a Heady, Aching Register

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

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

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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