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Shin Kamen Rider Review: Bedazzled by Bugmen, Japan’s Great Pop Auteur Burrows Deeper into Fandom Pastiche

Fatally, perhaps, I went into Shin Kamen Rider as a Hideaki Anno fan first and a Kamen Rider fan… not so much. I knew about it, of course: the iconography of t...

Jia Zhang-ke’s Next Narrative Feature is We Shall Be All, a Project Two Decades in the Making

In the five years since Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhang-ke has directed one documentary, Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue, but we've heard many rumors of an...

Lars von Trier’s The Idiots Causes Chaos with 4K Restoration Trailer

The Idiots is something like a holy grail among Lars von Trier's corpus, long out-of-print and legendary (even among his provocations) for its comic treatment ...

First Teaser for Coup de Chance Finds Woody Allen Sans Subtitles

Update: Ahead of its correctly guessed Venice debut, an English-subtitled trailer for Coup de Chance has arrived. Find it below with the original story. It'...

Blue Jean Director Georgia Oakley on Kelly Reichardt’s Simplicity and the Everyday Erosion of LGBTQ+ Acceptance

One of the year's most accomplished directorial debuts, Georgia Oakley’s deeply felt, grounded drama Blue Jean is set in 1988 England amidst Margaret Thatcher’...

Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Will Feature Four Stories With Actors Playing Multiple Roles

Update: We spoke with cinematographer Robert Yeoman, who shared new details on Wes Anderson's next two features. Read here. Next week, Wes Anderson's Astero...

Cannes Review: The Old Oak Finds Ken Loach Bidding Farewell with a Rallying Cry

In The Old Oak, an English man and a Syrian woman become unlikely friends on one side of a simmering culture war. It's the latest from Ken Loach and, if report...

Cannes Review: Terrestrial Verses Finds Bureaucratic Comedy and Tragedy in Modern Iran

Iranian filmmaking’s reliance on formal restrictions and secrecy are given new variations in Terrestrial Verses, co-directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami,...

John Carpenter Has Directed a New TV Series from His Couch and Teases The Thing Sequel

Hardly anyone expected John Carpenter to get back in the director's chair and just as many have accused him of being overambitious in recent years. Which makes...

Past Lives Director Celine Song on Choosing Your Home and the Contradictions of Time

Past Lives is a human story. The debut from playwright-turned-director Celine Song, the drama encompasses 24 years of a relationship between Nora (Greta Lee) a...

News

MUBI’s May 2024 Lineup Features Radu Jude, Bertrand Bonello, Lee Chang-dong & More

David Lynch Debuts New Remix — Listen

Eliza Hittman Sets Fourth Feature with MOTHERLOVE

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

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