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Zendaya, Josh O’Connor & Mike Faist Find Romance in New Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers

Originally set for a release last fall, Luca Guadagnino's Challengers was delayed to this April due to the strike, a move which now affords them some promotion...

The End is Near for David Krumholtz in First Trailer for Bob Byington’s Lousy Carter

If you haven't been following him on Twitter, David Krumholtz has been one of the very few reasons to stay up to date on the happenings of that godforsaken sit...

Free Time Trailer: Colin Burgess, Rajat Suresh, Jessie Pinnick & More Search for Meaning in the Modern World

One of the most promising American indies of the year, Ryan Martin Brown's Free Time brings together Colin Burgess, Rajat Suresh, Holmes, James Webb, Eric Yate...

Berlinale Review: A Traveler’s Needs is Hong Sangsoo’s Funniest Film in Years

Two things can be true at once. The old debate over whether Hong Sangsoo's cinema is overly earnest or self-aware was always a bit reductive––when the most lig...

Sam Mendes to Direct Four-Film Beatles Biopic Releasing in 2027

Like a chimera of any intelligent person's least-favorite storytelling models, we are (in the sense of a diagnosis) finally seeing the cinematic universe inter...

Second Trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War Imagines a Divided Near-Future America

After dividing audiences with Men, Alex Garland is back with what looks to be his most ambitious directorial outing yet. Civil War, which follows a divided, ne...

Berlinale Review: Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara Superbly Examines Paradoxes of Intimacy

The films of Canadian director Kazik Radwanski are freedom in its purest form, or the purest this particular medium can contain. Being the opposite of prescrip...

Lost in Translation Gets Deluxe Double LP Vinyl Release; Marie Antoinette Documentary in the Works

It's a good time to be a Sofia Coppola fan. Alongside last fall's release of one of her finest films, Priscilla, we got an expansive book detailing her career....

Berlinale Review: With The Empire, Bruno Dumont Delivers a Slack, Soaring Space Oddity

Playing his signature brand of rural French absurdity in stark counterpoint to the grandiose strains of a space opera, Bruno Dumont returns with The Empire: hi...

Berlinale Review: Sleep with Your Eyes Open Vividly Captures the Migrant Condition

Tucked deep into Don DeLillo’s Underworld is an exchange between the novel’s protagonist, Nick Shay, and one of his teachers, a Jesuit priest. It concerns lang...

News

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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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