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Maika Monroe Hunts Nicolas Cage in First Teaser for Oz Perkins’ Longlegs

In an era of marketing where most studios just drop a full-length trailer on YouTube and in theaters, hoping viewers will be impressed enough to buy tickets ev...

Posterized February 2024: Drive-Away Dolls, How to Have Sex, The Taste of Things & More

A lot of generic posters are hitting theater walls this month. That doesn't mean I still didn't almost put Argylle (February 2) below just because I ca...

Argylle Review: An Ugly, Exhausting Stale Corpse of a Blockbuster

It takes a very specific kind of brain trust to craft something as uniquely baffling as Argylle. If you've been to a multiplex in the last 7 or 8 months, you'v...

Rotterdam Review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Shadow of Fire Examines the Scars of War with Harrowing Restraint

Shinya Tsukamoto’s Shadow of Fire begins as a troubling but measured film, but about a half-hour in something happens that shatters its quietude. Suddenly, a m...

Rotterdam Review: Creature Horror The Soul Eater Offers Anachronistic Genre Thrills

You don’t need to have lived in the proverbial middle of nowhere to understand the kind of terror Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s The Soul Eater mines fr...

NYC Weekend Watch: Luis Buñuel, Nicholas Ray, SAPPH-O-RAMA & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA massive run of Luis Buñuel's Mexican films begins; “To Save and Proje...

New to Streaming: Farewell My Concubine, Dario Argento Panico, Kokomo City, The Beekeeper & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

The B-Side – Jodie Foster (with Katie Clark Gray)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...

20 Days in Mariupol Review: Oscar-Nominated Doc is a Vital Reminder of the Humanitarian Cost of a Military Invasion

The day after I finally got around to seeing 20 Days in Mariupol, the International Court of Justice ruled that there was sufficient basis to further investiga...

Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse Biopic Back to Black Gets U.S. Trailer and New Release Date

Marking her first film in six years, Sam Taylor-Johnson returns this year with Back to Black, a biopic depicting the life of the late Amy Winehouse. Led by Mar...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

Features

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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