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Minari Trailer: Steven Yeun and Family Search for the American Dream

After winning over the hearts of audiences and the jury at this year's Sundance Film Festival, it's been quiet in the house of A24 when it comes to the release...

NYFF Review: Her Name Was Europa Explores the Mythological Powers of an Extinct Species

Humans want to believe in meaning and mystery. At times, an overwhelming sense of certainty can fill one's mind––about an idea, a truth, a religion, or a signi...

Eternal Beauty Review: Sally Hawkins Leads an Empathetic, Emotionally Complex Look at Schizophrenia

You cannot just watch part of Craig Roberts' latest film Eternal Beauty. You might think you could since it's seemingly as schizophrenic as its lead character ...

The Criterion Channel’s October Lineup Includes ’70s Horror, New Korean Cinema & More

The Criterion Channel's stellar offerings are continuing next month with a selection of new releases, retrospective, series, and more. Leading the pack is, of ...

Steven Soderbergh Reveals Cast of Crime Thriller No Sudden Move and Confirms The Knick Return

Update: Matt Damon has joined No Sudden Move in a small, unbilled role, Deadline reports. Right as the pandemic hit the United States, Steven Soderbergh was...

Death of Me Review: A Straightforward Thriller With Jumbled Ideas About Faith

The words faith and belief have been distorted beyond recognition these past couple decades, if not longer. They used to signify a person's innate ability to t...

The Best Films from Venice, TIFF, and NYFF 2020

With a mix of in-person, drive-in, and digital screenings, most of the fall film festivals soldiered on during the pandemic, reimagining what a normal year may...

NYFF Review: The Poignant My Mexican Bretzel Plays Like an Inversion of Stories We Tell

Assembled from a single couple’s trove of home movies—50 reels, nearly 30 hours, of 16mm footage captured at home and on vacation from the 1940s to the 1960s—M...

American Murder: The Family Next Door Review: Watts Tragedy Doc Avoids a Much-Needed Conversation

Director Jenny Popplewell went through the late Shanann Watts' cellphone and personal computer with her family's blessing to piece together her final days in a...

NYFF Review: Fauna Pokes Fun at Narcos With an Astute Nesting Doll of Performances

Early in Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda’s succinctly effective farce Fauna, Paco (Francisco Barreiro), a thespian with a non-speaking part in the po...

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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