Many were optimistic that the first Trump Presidential term would be, at the very least, a blessing for satire. Two years into his second term and a former member of his cabinet was the one to declare...

Misty Green is a disaster on all fronts. It’s a film that seems to hate its characters, the audience, and Black cinema in general. It’s a Hollywood satire with no insight. It’s a character study with ...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 25. Latif (Mahershala Ali) is a righteous man. A religious man. He sees himself in...

In his second decade of feature filmmaking, Andrew Haigh has stealthily become one of cinema’s most emotionally perceptive voices. His characters never anticipate what’s coming their way, and he uses ...

As Interview with the Vampire receives a new release on 4K UHD, director Neil Jordan tells Dan Mecca about the legacy of the lush, lurid epic and the idiosyncrasies of ironic Irish cinema.

While Quentin Tarantino is doing everything possible not to direct his tenth and potentially final film (including prepping the new stage play The Popinjay Cavaliers, a 1830s Europe-set swashbuckling ...

Alpha Gang is an incredibly silly and charming film, the kind of high-concept comedy American directors rarely get to make anymore. Thankfully, David and Nathan Zellner (last seen with 2024’s Sasquatc...

“My own destruction might be exactly what I want.” - Leo Italian cinema maestro Bernardo Bertolucci died in 2018, leaving behind one unfinished screenplay. For his fourth feature, burgeoning Italian w...

A list of 10 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Se7en (1995), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), An Unfinished Life (2005), Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Unforgiven (1992).

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss New Jersey legend James Gandol...

Think of this atmospheric, exciting survival thriller as The Wages of Fear (or Sorcerer, if you prefer) but on foot.

Does every die-hard fan of Rocky, Sylvester Stallone’s zeitgeist-capturing, Oscar-winning, sequel-spawning classic, know the backstory of Rocky? There is a very good chance that answer is yes, as the ...

The 2024 announcement of Mia Hansen-Løve's If Love Should Die had us hoping for a late-2025 premiere. As 2026 enters its final months we can admit that some things in life, as this writer-director has...

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 round-ups here. Abel Ferrara One of Americ...