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U.S. Trailer for Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake Delivers Highly Stylized Neo-Noir

A follow-up to his awarding-winning Black Coal, Thin Ice, acclaimed Chinese genre filmmaker Diao Yinan is back with The Wild Goose Lake, a sumptuously stylized...

Heather Graham Cares for The Rest of Us in First Trailer for TIFF Drama

An official selection at TIFF, Gravitas Ventures has unveiled the first trailer for The Rest of Us, the debut feature from Aisling Chin-Yee starring Heather Gr...

Sundance Review: The Father Sets Anthony Hopkins & Olivia Colman in Quietly Brutal Drama

Directed and co-written by Florian Zeller from his own play, The Father doesn’t have much visual flair. It’s a first feature, largely takes place in one apartm...

NYC Weekend Watch: Hong Kong, Satantic Cinema, Jackie Brown & More

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile reperto...

Sundance Review: Tesla Offers a Fractured, Engaging Look at a Genius

A Michael Almereyda film can be a special thing. A few years back, the writer/director gave us Experimenter, an impressive kinda-biopic of Stanley Milgram star...

Sundance Review: Time is a Masterwork of Empathy, Exhaustion, Love, and Rage

In September 1997, sparked by desperation and noble intentions, Rob Richardson committed armed robbery. He was handed a 65-year prison sentence with no real ho...

The Rhythm Section Review: Blake Lively Leads a Clunky but Fascinating Bruiser

Notoriously masculine and unwelcoming, the realm of American action cinema as a genre often refuses to give female characters the same agency as their male cou...

Rotterdam Review: Arun Karthick’s Nasir is a Beautiful, Beguilingly Simple Drama

Here’s a film for which the label “low-key” feels particularly misleading, one whose power resides in its simplicity, in its ability to conjure grace out of a ...

Slamdance Review: In Tapeworm, Numbing Mundanity Rules Over Everything

In the opening minutes of Tapeworm, a man (Adam Brooks) pulls into a gas station to use their restroom, only to find it occupied. Unable to hold it in, he runs...

Sundance Review: The Killing of Two Lovers is a Haunting, Psychological Wake for a Marriage

Opening with a jarring, heart-stopping scene in which David (Clayne Crawford) points a gun at his sleeping wife, Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers is...

News

MUBI’s May 2024 Lineup Features Radu Jude, Bertrand Bonello, Lee Chang-dong & More

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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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