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Sundance Review: Stress Positions Stretches Its Unrepentant Insanity

Between The Sweet East and, to some extent, American Fiction, cinephiles seem to be increasing their appetite for politically incorrect commentary. Even if you...

Lovely, Dark, and Deep Exclusive Trailer and Poster: Acclaimed Psychological Horror Digs Up Mysteries

A selection at Fantasia Fest and Beyond Fest last year, Teresa Sutherland's Lovely, Dark, and Deep marks the directorial debut for the writer, best known for t...

Sundance Review: Suncoast is a Sob-Inducing, Nuanced Homage to Florida

Floridian residents of a certain age viscerally remember the name Terri Schiavo. She was a woman in a vegetative state who became the center of a national righ...

Sundance Review: Handling The Undead Deconstructs the Zombie Genre with Painful Dread

The first word that comes to mind when thinking of how to write about Thea Hvistendahl's Handling the Undead is: dread. To expand: slow, ponderous dread. Writt...

Sundance Review: Winner is a Whistle-Blowing Biopic Too Tongue-In-Cheek to Take Seriously

Ever since The Big Short, Adam McKay’s winking and sardonic explainer about the 2008 financial crisis, a redundant cottage industry of similar-minded criminal ...

Trailer for New Restoration of G. W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box Gives New Life to a Silent Classic

One of the most expressive, luminous performances in all of silent cinema is that of Louise Brooks in G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box. Now, thanks to a new restora...

Kleber Mendonça Filho on Pictures of Ghosts, the Future of Film Exhibition, and Stanley Kubrick Memories

Nothing gold can stay. So the saying goes and is thoughtfully illustrated in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest film Pictures of Ghosts. It’s a mosaic portrait of ...

Sundance Review: Daughters is an Insightful, Emotional Portrait of Brief Reunions

A striking film that evokes a wave of emotions, Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s Daughters is another picture––à la Rudy Valdez’s The Sentence, Garrett Bradley’...

Sundance 2024 Winners Include In the Summers, Porcelain War, Sujo, and A New Kind of Wilderness

While there's still a few days left of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including the opportunity to watch many titles from the comfort of your own home, the j...

Sundance Review: A Different Man Sets a Disfigured Sebastian Stan Into a Surrealist Identity Drama

There are a lot of ways A Different Man could go and a lot of things it could be. Aaron Schimberg’s uniquely uncomfortable, uncomfortably unique feature someti...

News

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Trailers

New Trailer for 4K Restoration of Time of the Heathen Captures a World After the Atomic Bomb

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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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