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Wonka Review: Timothée Chalamet is Miscast in Beautiful, Belabored Prequel

When it was first announced Warner Bros. was in the early stages of developing a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel about Willy Wonka’s rise to fame and...

Slamdance Film Festival 2024 Unveils Lineup

Returning for its 30th anniversary edition next year, Slamdance Film Festival has now unveiled its full film lineup for 2024. Kicking off with Oscar-winning fi...

Charlie Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris Returns with Trailer for 4K Restoration

The lesser-known of Charlie Chaplin's canon might still place among the finest films ever made, and his greatest scholars and acolytes will tell you A Woman of...

The Best Documentaries of 2023

Going deep inside the human body, rethinking a Thelonious Monk interview, solitary island life, capturing one of the finest restaurants in the world, exploring...

Posterized December 2023: The Zone of Interest, Poor Things, The Iron Claw & More

Holidays and awards season collide with a plethora of Oscar contenders vying for screens––whether it's The Color Purple (December 25), Ferrari (Decembe...

Listen: Joe Hisaishi’s Full Score for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron

At long last, it's the week of Hayao Miyazaki in North America as GKIDS will be giving his stunning new animation The Boy and the Heron a wide release starting...

Matthew Modine Reflects on Abel Ferrara, Stanley Kubrick, Renny Harlin, Alan Rudolph, and His Feature-Directing Debut

The mark of an actor's career, I think, is what extent their filmography can reflect the time they're working. Matthew Modine is a prime case: we can point, fi...

Sean Price Williams on Rejecting Cynicism with The Sweet East and Making Nick Pinkerton Laugh

For the past decade-and-a-half, cinematographer Sean Price Williams has been a staple of the New York indie-film scene, lensing features for (naming just a han...

NYC Weekend Watch: Kijū Yoshida, Matthew Modine, Todd Haynes, Ennio Morricone & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterThe films of Kijū Yoshida are now playing in a massive retrospective....

New to Streaming: May December, The Holdovers, What Happens Later, Beyond Utopia, and 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...

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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