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Our 20 Most-Anticipated 2023 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

It's the most exciting time of the year: the Cannes Film Festival is set to kick off next week, taking place May 16-27. Ahead of festivities we've rounded up w...

NYC Weekend Watch: New York Onscreen, Nagisa Oshima, Grand Illusion & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA retrospective on New York movies is underway, featuring Polanski, Scorsese, Spi...

Hypnotic Review: Ben Affleck Searches for Clues in Wacky, Nolan-Esque Sci-Fi Thriller

This is probably an odd thing to say, but whenever watching a modern potboiler I find myself asking, “What would Bertrand Tavernier think?” The kind of French ...

The Wicker Man 4K Restoration Trailer: Robin Hardy’s Landmark Horror Feature Gets 50th Anniversary Theatrical Release

50 years after its release and filmmakers, including Ari Aster, Mark Jenkin, Ben Wheatley, and Robert Eggers, continue to draw direct inspiration from Robin Ha...

Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos & Ben Whishaw Heat Up the First Teaser for Ira Sachs’ Passages

The summer just got quite a bit hotter. Directed by Ira Sachs, Passages brings together Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Ben Whishaw for a tale of fier...

New to Streaming: AIR, Sick of Myself, The Five Devils, The Covenant & 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...

First Clip From Close Your Eyes, Víctor Erice’s First Feature in Three Decades

There are not many directors who have amassed such a rich contribution to the world of cinema amongst so few films as Víctor Erice. The 82-year-old Spanish dir...

Cyprus Film Days Review: Part Eco-Thriller, Part Cancer Drama, The Fishbowl is an Incendiary, Uneven Homecoming

A body and an island become sites of resistance in Glorimar Marrero Sánchez’s The Fishbowl, a fitfully incendiary, entrancing portrait of a woman engaged in a ...

Oldboy 20th Anniversary Restoration Trailer: Park Chan-wook’s Revenge Thriller Returns to Theaters

After his return to feature filmmaking with last year's Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook recently jumped back into the world of TV with The Sympathizer, set t...

Poor Things Teaser: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo Get Weird For Yorgos Lanthimos

Five years after The Favourite, Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is back with Poor Things, which brings together Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Y...

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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