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First Trailer for ‘Unfriended: Dark Web’ Plunges Into the Horrors of the Internet

The Sundance hit Searching won't be the only thriller taking place entirely on a computer screen this summer. Following its initial premiere at the South by...

Revenge is Plotted in Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Dominican Crime Drama ‘Cocote’

" shines a light on an underrepresented part of the world and casts a truly outlandish spell that confounds and overwhelms." So began our review of Nelson C...

Emma Thompson Defends Fionn Whitehead in First Trailer for ‘The Children Act’

After opening to critical acclaim at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, A24 and DIRECTV have just released the first trailer for The Children ...

‘Dumbo’ Takes Flight in First Trailer for Tim Burton’s Live-Action Remake

As Disney goes into its animation vault to pluck their beloved features and turn them into live-action tentpoles, despite making enough money to turn Mickey...

Review: ‘The Year of Spectacular Men’ Flips the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Script

The time has come to see the "manic pixie dream girl" trope from the other side. We've viewed countless depictions of attractively quirky women serving as plot ...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 298 – Hereditary

We discuss the Sundance horror hit, Hereditary, written and directed by Ari Aster....

Review: ‘Incredibles 2’ Narrows its Focus to Become a Super Sequel

“The thing is that many sequels are cash grabs,” Brad Bird said earlier this year. “And there’s a saying in the business that I can’t stand where they go, ‘You ...

Domhnall Gleeson Gets Spooked in First Trailer for Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘The Little Stranger’

“The first time I saw Hundreds Hall was July 1919. Nothing could’ve prepared me for the spell it cast when I saw the house again thirty years later.” The...

‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’: Paul Schrader’s Phantasmagoria of Cartesian Dissociation

We look at one of Paul Schrader's greatest achievements as it arrives on Criterion....

First Trailer for ‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind’ Celebrates a Comedic Master

This summer, it will be four years since Robin Williams passed, leaving a deep, unfillable imprint in the world of comedy and drama. To celebrate the late a...

News

Kenneth Lonergan Returns with Tomorrow Is a Drag; Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Matthew Broderick, and Vanessa Kirby Starring

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Reviews

Cannes Review: All of a Sudden Is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Most Empathetic, Humanist Film to Date

Cannes Review: The Meltdown Is an Elusive Chilean Chiller

Cannes Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales Is an Ambitious If Tedious Take on Kieślowski

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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