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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

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

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