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Sundance Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything Remarkably Examines a Trailblazing Musician

Little Richard: I Am Everything is positively bursting with unforgettable anecdotes, so much so that choosing one standout is virtually impossible. So perhaps ...

Sundance Review: A Thousand and One Showcases Teyana Taylor as a Desperate Mother

In the beginning of A Thousand and One, the New York City streets are alive, detailed and humming with swagger. It’s 1993 and Inez struts through Brooklyn afte...

Sundance 2023 Winners Include A Thousand and One, Going to Mars, Scrapper & The Eternal Memory

While our Sundance Film Festival 2023 coverage continues to roll in, the respective juries at Park City have doled out their winners, with Grand Jury Prizes aw...

NYC Weekend Watch: Preston Sturges, Todd Solondz, Douglas Sirk & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA Preston Sturges retrospective continues, with The Palm Beach Story, T...

Sundance Review: Scrapper is a Remarkably Assured Debut

It feels serendipitous that Scrapper, a somber slice-of-life British melodrama, screened at the Sundance Film Festival just days after hysterical reporting on ...

Sundance Review: The Accidental Getaway Driver is a Kidnapping Thriller That Works Best in Low Gear

The premise is simple; it promises a comical, stranger-than-fiction thrill-ride. Late at night, an elderly Vietnamese cab driver begrudgingly agrees to a routi...

Sundance Review: Against the Tide Examines Shifting Ideals in a Bombay Fishing Community

At first glance, the two friends in Against the Tide couldn’t be more different. Both Koli fishermen, their similarities seem to stop at the generality of thei...

The B-Side – Michelle Pfeiffer (with Veronica Fitzpatrick)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in...

New to Streaming: TÁR, Happening, M3GAN, When You Finish Saving the World & 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...

The Criterion Channel Announce February Lineup: Black History, Derek Jarman, Douglas Sirk, Yo La Tengo & More

February, marking both Black History Month and Valentine's Day, is the kind of stretch from which a programmer can mine plenty. Accordingly the Criterion Chann...

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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