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Venice Review: ‘Non-Fiction’ is a Compassionate, Captivating Symposium

Who needs a middle man’s subjectivity when you have algorithms predicting what people will like? Critics don’t matter much in Olivier Assayas’ talkative Non-Fic...

TIFF Review: ‘The Predator’ Brings Hard-R Carnage and Forced Humor

Writer Shane Black had a good year in 1987. He burst onto the action screenwriting scene with Lethal Weapon, co-wrote the cult classic children versus Universal...

TIFF Review: ‘Les Salopes or The Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin’ is a Thought-Provoking, Sex-Positive Drama

Can skin tell the difference between love and desire? It's an intriguing question Marie-Claire (Brigitte Poupart) can't help but want to answer as a dermatology...

TIFF Review: ‘Endzeit – Ever After’ Brings a Unique Touch to the Zombie Mythology

What if humanity's apocalypse wasn't the world's end? We've become so used to treating ourselves as rulers of this planet despite knowing so little about it and...

TIFF Review: ‘Phoenix’ is a Heartbreaking, Emphatic Portrait of Mental Illness

If our best laid plans are said to often go awry, what happens to the ones we hastily make in desperation? Writer/director Camilla Strøm Henriksen looks to supp...

TIFF Review: ‘Aniara’ is a Fascinating Character Study that Captures the Devolution of Mankind

So much of our desire to exist is based in control. We have the ability to move our homes, restart careers, and work towards a future of our choosing. No matter...

TIFF Review: ‘Blind Spot’ is a Technically Proficient, Manipulative One-Shot Drama

The boldness of Tuva Novotny to choose to make her directorial debut a one-shot film of harrowing emotion cannot be understated. Her Blind Spot takes us through...

TIFF Review: ‘Mouthpiece’ is a Surreal Affair with a Brilliant Conceit

Cassandra (played by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava) reminds her mother (Maev Beaty’s Elaine) that we (humans) used to only live until forty. I think we often ...

TIFF Review: ‘Girls of the Sun’ is an Oppressively Harrowing War Drama

It’s just like America to document ISIS as a fight we must combat—like the saviors we are. There’s a reason for this from our perspective, but our jingoistic th...

TIFF Review: ‘Loro’ is a Wild Ride into the Exploits of Silvio Berlusconi

If you watch “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” you know Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian tycoon-turned-politician is mired in scandals, controversy, and populi...

News

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

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

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

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

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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