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Linoleum Review: Jim Gaffigan Faces an Existential Crisis in Heartfelt Sci-Fi Drama

If we lived in an alternate universe where Bill Nye never got his big break, relegated to shooting his lo-fi children’s show from his garage and submitting tap...

Berlinale Review: The Shadowless Tower is a Wistful, Engrossing Ode to Those Who Wander

Watching over Beijing’s Xicheng district is an enormous white pagoda, a relic of the Kublai Khan rule, so majestic and otherworldly in looks and stature it mig...

James Cameron Plans to Direct The Last Train From Hiroshima After Avatar 3

Before Avatar: The Way of Water was released and James Cameron proved he was, indeed, king of the box office, the director revealed he thinks he's got about si...

Berlinale Review: Dustin Guy Defa and Michael Cera Reunite in The Adults, a Sibling Drama of Raw Emotion

Six years after directing his last feature, Dustin Guy Defa returns with The Adults, a film of complicated shared histories and gradually revealing inner lives...

The Quiet Girl Review: Ireland Oscar Nominee is a Delicately Dull Tale of the Pains of Childhood

A thoroughly dull if not totally unpleasant work of nicecore cinema, The Quiet Girl is the case of a film being easy to dismiss but hard to hate. Are the inten...

Gianfranco Rosi Takes a Holy Journey in First Trailer for In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis

Following his acclaimed trio of documentaries Sacro GRA, Fire at Sea, and Notturno, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi pivots a bit with next feature, this time ...

Berlinale Review: Sydney Sweeney Astounds in Tina Satter’s Fascinating Reality

A good conceit can go a long way. In 2017, a former U.S. Air Force member-turned-NSA translator named Reality Winner leaked a document to The Intercept exposin...

Berlinale Review: Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry Takes a Mostly Playful Approach to Capturing the Rise of a Tech Company

In BlackBerry, the rise of a blue-chip tech company sets the stage for the dissolution of a longstanding friendship. Sound familiar? Just wait ‘til you hear th...

Berlinale Review: Perpetrator is Another Phantasmagoric, Feminist High-School Horror from Jennifer Reeder

Just when you thought filmmakers and creators had exhausted everything worth saying in American high school-set comedies and thrillers, along comes Chicago-bas...

Agnès Varda Will Receive Documentary Portrait with Viva Varda!

While Agnès Varda explored her own work throughout her career, including in The Beaches of Agnès, her TV series From Here to There, and her final film Varda by...

News

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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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