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First Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Laundromat’ Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman & Antonio Banderas

Does Steven Soderbergh have two great films in him this year? After High Flying Bird, he's reteamed with Netflix for the Panama Papers drama The Laundromat....

First Trailer for ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ Explores the Making of Ridley Scott’s Sci-Fi Landmark

Four decades after its release, it’s become etched in cinema history that Ridley Scott’s Alien was a landmark achievement in not only the science-fiction ge...

Locarno Review: ‘Overseas’ is an Engrossing, Piercing Portrait of People Pushed to the Margins

In a two-story building down a chronically flooded street, a dozen Filipino women brace for an encroaching departure. They are the domestic workers at the cente...

Timothée Chalamet is ‘The King’ in First Trailer for David Michôd’s Medieval Epic

Timothée Chalamet is getting medieval. For his next role, the Call Me By Your Name star is leading David Michôd's The King, which includes the impressive su...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Begins Shooting ‘Memoria’ Starring Tilda Swinton

Despite being a beloved figure on the international film circuit, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has mostly stayed in his own realm, crafting his dreamlike odysseys ...

‘The Fanatic’ Review: John Travolta Gets Absurd in Fred Durst’s Misguided Thriller

Over shots of Los Angeles, Fred Durst’s The Fanatic opens with an apathetic diatribe about the soul-sucking nature of the City of Angels. It's a“city of bullshi...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 361 – Ready or Not

We discuss Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett's horror-comedy....

‘End of the Century’ Director Lucio Castro on His Intimate, Epic Vision of the Bonds Across Time

We talk to the director about his strong vision, using contemporary gay sex mores to date his movie in our time, and using a unique kind of time travel to examine how relationships change....

Locarno Review: ‘The Fever’ is a Quiet, Heart-Breaking Story of Resilience in Brazil

By any conservative approximation, in the week that spanned the moment I left the Locarno screening of Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever and the minute I began writing th...

Locarno Review: ‘A Girl Missing’ is a Labyrinthine, Patchy New Drama by Koji Fukada

“Does someone who’s broken a family deserve a happy future?” teenage Motoko fires at middle-aged Ichiko halfway through Koji Fukada’s A Girl Missing. The woman ...

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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