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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...

TIFF Review: The Lie is an Overwrought, Silly Drama with High Emotions

All kids grow up. Some parents grow apart. And the ramifications of this combination can have drastic effects. Jealousies might crop up to cause rifts while nos...

TIFF Review: ‘Teen Spirit’ is a Stylish if Familiar Pop Star Drama

If you haven’t had enough underdog tales about kids from the wrong side of the tracks trying to make it big, Max Minghella’s directorial debut Teen Spirit hits ...

TIFF Review: ‘White Boy Rick’ Cuts Through the Bullshit of the American Dream

The pitch is as follows: Ricky Wershe Jr. (newcomer Richie Merritt) was a street hustler, drug kingpin, and FBI informant by the age of seventeen. If that doesn...

TIFF Review: ‘Halloween’ Honors the Spirit of John Carpenter’s Original

John Carpenter’s original Halloween is a testament to how much can be achieved through narrative economy and moody stylization. The film’s pioneering use of Pan...

TIFF Review: ‘Duelles (Mothers’ Instinct)’ Brings Melodramatic Suspense to an Idyllic Bourgeois Home

Director Olivier Masset-Depasse lets us know exactly what to expect out of Duelles (Mothers’ Instinct) from the start, introducing an idyllic bourgeois home wit...

TIFF Review: ‘Where Hands Touch’ Conveys an Interracial Nazi Romance with Complexity

Now is not the time to make a film romanticizing Nazism or allowing anyone who donned the swastika during World War II a modicum of sympathy. I'd argue there co...

TIFF Review: ‘Helmet Heads’ Features Broken Lizard-Esque Deadpan Humor in Central America

If Broken Lizard were Central American and deadpan, they might make something akin to Ernesto Villalobos' Helmet Heads. Think an extremely droll Super Troopers ...

TIFF Review: ‘In Fabric’ is Brazenly Weird and Wholly Retro

In Fabric is a film that’s wholly retro, and not just in how writer/director (and emerging remix artist) Peter Strickland embraces '70s Euro-horror tropes (and ...

TIFF Review: ‘The Front Runner’ is Jason Reitman’s Best-Directed Film

And so it began—sentiments that prove true only until the next example replaces it. We’re just two years removed from Donald Trump’s victory for president of th...

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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