Festivals

TDF Review: How to Survive a Pandemic Examines the Greatest Global Medical Achievement in History

Two years on from Welcome to Chechnya, David France returns with another rip-roaring take on urgent real-world events with How To Survive A Pandemic, an on-the...

SXSW Review: Soft & Quiet is a Provocative, Timely American Nightmare

Warning: Some spoilers ahead. Told in real-time across one (seemingly) unbroken shot, Beth de Araújo’s Soft & Quiet is perhaps the most provocative film...

TDF Review: Ruth Beckermann’s MUTZENBACHER Provocatively Revisits a Controversial Text

That the Viennese author Felix Salten wrote the book Bambi was based on while also being an avid hunter—so much so that he’s said to have killed over 100 deer—...

SXSW Review: The Cow Milks a Simple Premise with Rich Atmosphere

Eli Horowitz’s The Cow offers a rather convoluted approach to an unfortunately straightforward story. For much of its runtime, however, the film successfully o...

SXSW Review: I Love My Dad Finds Patton Oswalt in a Cringe-Worthy Catfish Comedy

Inspired by actual events, I Love My Dad contains a cringe-worthy premise that should easily fall apart, as Franklin (James Morosini), a young-ish man, should ...

SXSW Review: A Woman on the Outside is a Powerful Doc About Disrupting the System

When a family member is sentenced to prison it’s often their family that “does the time”—having one less mother, father, brother, sister to raise a child. This...

SXSW Review: Apollo 10½ is a Warm, Wise, and Nostalgic Look at Growing Up in the Space Age

A delightful meditation on childhood in the summer of 1969 set literally in the shadows of NASA’s central operations in Houston, Richard Linklater’s contemplat...

7 Films to See at Locarno in Los Angeles

Considering many films premiering at the Locarno Film Festival can take years to get a release here in the United States—should they get any at all—Locarno in ...

SXSW Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is as Curious a Creation as Cage Himself

As unhinged as its muse, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a curious bit of fan service and perhaps a welcome evolution in the career of Nicolas Cage,...

SXSW Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once is a Rollicking Rollercoaster Ride Through a Pop-Culture Multiverse

A general rule film students learn the first few weeks of their intro class is that a film teaches you how to watch it within the first five minutes. Well, mos...

News

David Lynch Debuts New Remix — Listen

Eliza Hittman Sets Fourth Feature with MOTHERLOVE

Kokomo City Director D. Smith Sets Next Documentary with Blvd

Trailers

New Trailer for 4K Restoration of Time of the Heathen Captures a World After the Atomic Bomb

Jia Zhangke and Bi Gan Voice a Coming-of-Age Tale In Exclusive Trailer Debut for Liu Jian’s Art College 1994

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Covers Classic Terrain In First Trailer for Serpent’s Path

Reviews

Challengers Review: Non-Stop Lurid Entertainment Rides the Charisma of Its Stars

Omen Review: An Assured Debut That Never Falters in Ambition or Surprise

The People’s Joker Review: Superhero-Skewering Satire is Miraculous in Multiple Ways

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Love Streams, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ozu & More

New to Streaming: Dune: Part Two, Hundreds of Beavers, Problemista, Immaculate & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Frederick Elmes on John Cassavetes’ Infectious Confidence, Imitating Sven Nykvist, and Ang Lee’s Hulk

Becoming the Beast: George MacKay on Fighting for Bertrand Bonello’s Film, Learning French, and Modern Incel Culture

“I’m Not an Actor”: Léa Seydoux on Her Creative Self and False Public Perception

Podcasts

The B-Side – Robert Redford (with Blake Howard)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 534 – Monkey Man (with Jenny Nulf)

The B-Side – In Conversation with Larry Fessenden