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Tennis and Cinema Intersect in U.S. Trailer for ‘John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection’

The best film we saw at the Berlin Film Festival this year was John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection. The title may suggest your typical sports documenta...

Review: ‘Outrage Coda’ is a Playfully Complex Yakuza Revenge Tale

Thrilling, talky, and densely plotted to a point of convolution, Outrage Coda closes Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage trilogy, which follows various warring yakuza crim...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 303 – Sorry to Bother You

We discuss Boots Riley's directorial debut, the anti-capitalist satire starring Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson....

Review: ‘Teen Titans Go! To the Movies’ is a Meta Animation Strictly for Kids

Picture this: a popular 1980s comic by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez called The New Teen Titans puts a bunch of sidekicks together to fight one of their rank's ...

First Trailer for ‘What They Had’ Starring Hilary Swank, Blythe Danner, and Michael Shannon

Hilary Swank is returning to the big screen in What They Had, the touching new drama from writer/director Elizabeth Chomko. The movie tells the story of Bri...

Review: ‘McQueen’ Weaves Beautiful Tapestries Out of Tragedy and Pain

By the time he was 25, Lee Alexander McQueen had gone on to launch his own fashion label. Before he was 30, he had designed costumes for David Bowie and Björk. ...

First Trailer for Jonah Hill’s Directorial Debut ‘Mid90s’

A Scott Rudin-produced solo directorial debut from an actor-turned-director that explores a coming-of-age story with shades of autobiography and a love for ...

Introducing The B-Side, a New Podcast Exploring the Forgotten Films of Established Stars

In this first episode, Dan Mecca and Conor O'Donnell discuss The B-Side to Tom Cruise's career, in advance of the release of Mission: Impossible - Fallout....

First Trailer for Blake Williams’ ‘PROTOTYPE’ Previews a Boundary-Pushing 3D Experience

In the years since the resurgence of 3D in Hollywood thanks to James Cameron, we've seen the dimension-expanding tool profiteered in a number of bastardized...

The Allegorical Power and Sheer Imagination of George A. Romero

As his debut Night of the Living Dead arrives on Criterion, we look back at the intelligent horror classic....

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: 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

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

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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