IFFR 2024

Rotterdam Review: Ben Petrie Delivers Tension and Humor in Pet-Adoption Psychodrama Debut The Heirloom

In The Heirloom, a couple facing lockdown decide to adopt a pet. It’s wintertime in Toronto, and Eric and Allie are chipping away at their COVID-restricted liv...

Rotterdam Review: Swimming Home Squanders its Erotic Premise for a Lifeless Slow Burn

Jumper, Justin Anderson’s first short, opened on a naked man bathing in a pool. Conceived in 2014 for the tenth anniversary of British fashion designer Jonatha...

Rotterdam Review: Restlessly Inventive, Dream Team Pushes Cinema Toward New, Surreal Paths

A few weeks ago, as The Sweet East started gracing theatres across the States, Reverse Shot ran a sprawling conversation between critic K. Austin Collins and c...

Rotterdam Review: Toshihiko Tanaka’s Rei is an Ambitious Directorial Debut That Draws from Hamaguchi

It was more than eight years ago that the virtually unknown Ryusuke Hamaguchi premiered Happy Hour, a five-hour narrative masterclass about four thirty-somethi...

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...

News

S. Craig Zahler Sets Next Feature The Bookie & the Bruiser Starring Vince Vaughn and Adrien Body

Exclusive: Marco Bellocchio Retrospective Coming to NYC’s Quad Cinema Ahead of Kidnapped

First Poster and New Images From David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds Arrive Ahead of Cannes Premiere

Trailers

Good One Trailer: One of 2024’s Great Debuts Arrives This August

Lily Gladstone Uncovers Injustice In Fancy Dance Trailer

Alicia Vikander Challenges Jude Law’s Henry VIII In Trailer for Firebrand

Reviews

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Review: A Sluggish Continuation of the Franchise

Slow Review: Asexuality Drama Drowns In Naturalism

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg Review: Scarlett Johansson Gives Voice to Redemption Story

Features

Posterized May 2024: Evil Does Not Exist, I Saw the TV Glow, Gasoline Rainbow & More

New to Streaming: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, House of Tolerance, Humane, Femme & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Bulle Ogier, Hiroshi Shimizu, Marguerite Duras & More

Interviews

Eiko Ishibashi on Creating Gift and Evil Does Not Exist with Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Ethan Hawke on Wildcat, Flannery O’Connor, John Huston, and Not Making a Biopic

Jane Schoenbrun on I Saw the TV Glow, Trans Girl Time, Olivier Assayas, and Emma Stone’s Support

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Ep. 536 – Challengers (with Scott Nye)

The B-Side – In Conversation with Nancy Savoca

The Film Stage Show Ep. 535 – Civil War (with Ryan McNeill)