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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...

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....

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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