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Cannes Review: Pictures of Ghosts is a Memento Mori of Cinema for Kleber Mendonça Filho

If the death of cinema is imminent, at least Kleber Mendonça Filho can play it out with some vintage Tropicália. It’s becoming a nice leitmotif of the Brazilia...

Cannes Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Marks a Decent Send-Off for Harrison Ford

If you went to the movies in 1989 you might have heard Indiana Jones growl the line "it belongs in a museum." You'll hear him say it again in The Dial of Desti...

New Information on Quentin Tarantino’s The Movie Critic Arrives Courtesy Paul Schrader

Update: In Cannes to present––might this be a clue?!––Rolling Thunder, Tarantino told Deadline The Movie Critic "is based on a guy who really lived, but was ne...

Fast X Review: Louis Letterier Injects Big, Dumb Verve into Lumbering Series

Fast X is an incredibly dumb time at the movies. Not just in an F9 “they took a car to space” kind of dumb (there’s also plenty of that, which is fine), but in...

Cannes Review: The New Boy Forsakes Mysticism to Chart an Overwrought Spiritual Crisis

Back in 2017, Warwick Thornton landed in Venice with a western that offered some corrective to the white-savior narratives of countless others in the genre. Sw...

New to Streaming: Pacifiction, R.M.N., Millennium Mambo, Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV & 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...

NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Lost Highway, Michael Roemer & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaA New Leaf and Ishtar play, the former on 35mm, while a print of The Fifth Eleme...

The Night of the 12th Review: A Commendable, Diet Zodiac Procedural

A dramatization of true events, The Night of the 12th mines a particular subgenre of the crime picture, the “Cold Case” (its own Bush-era CBS procedural). The ...

Cannes Review: Monster is a Thrilling Reminder of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Powers

Few stories are as gratifying as the narrative jigsaw. How to fool the viewer into believing one thing without lying about what happened? It’s difficult enough...

The Thief Collector Review: Retired Teachers Steal $160 Million Painting in Riveting Yet Overstuffed Documentary

The various facets of the art of the heist––from motivation to execution to life on the lam (or in detainment)––make it perennially ripe for high-stakes cinema...

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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