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Sundance Review: Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings is a Hilarious, Perceptive Look at Fracturing Trust

In a landscape that has mostly lost its taste for comedy, every Nicole Holofcener film feels like a revelation. While she has more on her mind than just making...

Sundance Review: Past Lives is a Beautiful Reflection on Diverging Existences

Whether miniscule or major, the millions of decisions we make form the winding path of our lives. Specific reasons for taking certain forks in the road can oft...

Sundance Review: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project Enters a Poet’s Brilliant Mind

More than 50 years ago, while a student at Fisk University, Nikki Giovanni was published in the journal Negro Digest. Since then she has become a heralded poet...

Sundance Review: Run Rabbit Run Revisits the Tropes of Family Trauma

Run Rabbit Run, the latest from director Daina Reid, has all the ingredients of the modern mother-daughter horror film. There are the strung-out bass notes and...

Berlinale 2023 Lineup Includes New Films By Christian Petzold, Hong Sangsoo, Philippe Garrel & More

2023 truly begins taking shape with next month's Berlinale, which will run from February 16 to February 26 and feature more than a few of our most-anticipated ...

Slamdance Review: Waiting for the Light to Change is a Strong, Precise Debut Exploring Anxieties of Young Adulthood

The five characters in Linh Tran’s Waiting for the Light to Change come together in awkward fashion, some reuniting and others meeting for the first time at a ...

Sundance Review: Earth Mama Brings Abundant Grace to an Impossible Situation

Conceived with a remarkable amount of filmmaking confidence, Savanah Leaf’s directorial debut Earth Mama follows the trials and tribulations of a pregnant sing...

Sundance Review: The Starling Girl is a Well-Made, Telegraphed Drama About Breaking Away From Religion

Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl finds the first-time feature director treading well-worn terrain. Starring Eliza Scanlen and Lewis Pullman as Jem Starling an...

Sundance Review: Fremont Tells a Patient, Slight Tale of Loneliness in a New Land

In Fremont, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) is often alone. She lives in a small apartment in Fremont, California, commuting each day to her job in a fortune cookie f...

Sundance Review: A Still Small Voice Captures Good People Navigating Constant Crisis

At times shockingly personal, the documentary A Still Small Voice will sneak up on most viewers. It follows both Margaret "Mati" Engel, a chaplain-in-training ...

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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