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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...

TIFF Review: ‘Kingsway’ Effectively Shows How Sarcasm Can Heal Wounds

Love and suicide. Those are the words director Bruce Sweeney says inspired him to write Kingsway and are very much at the forefront of his dramedy about the dys...

TIFF Review: ‘The Most Beautiful Couple’ Explores the Toxicity of Reactions to Trauma

It starts with a rape. I won't lie: I sighed thinking Sven Taddicken's The Most Beautiful Couple was going to end up another drama about coping and retribution ...

TIFF Review : ‘The Truth About Killer Robots’ Looks at the Future from a Machine’s Point-of-View

The title to Maxim Pozdorovkin's documentary The Truth About Killer Robots is intentionally sensationalized for the same reasons a real newspaper article about ...

TIFF Review: ‘Jessica Forever’ Imagines a Surreal Sci-Fi World Where Orphans Have No Rights

Redemption is a tricky concept. Can you be redeemed without forgiveness from those you wronged? Are our actions in the aftermath enough to achieve some semblanc...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 308 – Madeline’s Madeline

We discuss Josephine Decker's formally daring new film and its depiction of the creative process and mental illness....

Venice Review: ‘Introduzione all’Oscuro’ is an Illuminating Tribute to an Undeservedly Obscured Figure

Gaston Solnicki’s previous film Kekszakallu, which placed him on the festival circuit radar, resembles a documentary. A film about a group of teenage women born...

News

Kenneth Lonergan Returns with Tomorrow Is a Drag; Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Matthew Broderick, and Vanessa Kirby Starring

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

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: The Meltdown Is an Elusive Chilean Chiller

Cannes Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales Is an Ambitious If Tedious Take on Kieślowski

Cannes Review: Gentle Monster Is a Masterfully Performed Drama In the Aftermath of Betrayal

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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