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 ...

When, earlier this year, Olivier Assayas told me that his next feature would be "in the vein" of Personal Shopper, it didn't take much to parse that this meant the long-rumored reunion with Kristen St...

“I need to be myself / I can’t be no one else.” Has an opening line of a first release better captured the appeal, complexity, and intent of a band than Oasis’ 1994 debut single “Supersonic”? This sen...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA Yuen Woo-ping series continues, featuring two Once Upon a Time in China films by Tsui Hark, Wong Kar-wai's Hong K...

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...

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. Backrooms (Kane Parsons) T...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 25. The extended opening of The Incomer, written and directed by Louis Paxton,...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 23. Working with her sister Anna—a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a developme...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Tribeca coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 25. For her debut, writer-director Paula Andrea González-Nasser chose to explor...

You would think that any filmmaker—no matter the Oscar nominations, an enviable ability to work with A-list stars and complete unknowns at once, several iconic films to your name, a name that is itsel...

After first landing on my radar with the wondrous All These Sleepless Nights, Michal Marczak returned this year with another film blending the realms of fact and fiction. Closure, a documentary that i...

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 exciting as it can be to catch some of the most-anticipated films of the year in their festival debuts, it's perhaps even more enticing to seek out the work that one may not have a chance to see fo...

While I don't want to watch another second of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything before experiencing the film in theaters, A24 has now dropped the...

This is a big one. You're also forgiven for knowing nothing of it. Nearly 50 years ago, Leonard Schrader—brother of Paul, co-writer of Blue Collar and Mishima—originated the idea for a film concerning...

Starting this weekend, the Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival will screen films from 1926 at venues all around the city. Put on by the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society (PSFS), the festival is a recent and ...

In a year of strong starts, none is more astonishing than La Gradiva, the directorial debut of cinematographer Marine Atlan (Jessica Forever, The Girl in the Snow). Premiering at Cannes Critics' Week,...

You would think that any filmmaker—no matter the Oscar nominations, an enviable ability to work with A-list stars and complete unknowns at once, several iconic films to your name, a name that is itsel...

If you live in New York, you know this is the best time of year for filmgoing; if you don’t, you probably realize such and just wish you were here. The 64th New York Film Festival begins this Friday, ...

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...

Seventy-five year-old Indigenous Peruvian artist Sara Flores came to fame late in life, as she acknowledges in The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs. Yet her art and activism resonate with force and c...

“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...

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...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 BFI London coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 18. To international viewers, Bad Apples will play like a conventional dark ...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 18. Finding poetic beauty in the quotidian, Walter Thompson-Hernández’s If I G...

Forgiveness and redemption lie at the heart of Tim Blake Nelson’s The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, which sees the actor returning to the role of writer-director after more than a decade. Set in Ok...

On paper, hiring Takashi Miike to add his own spin to Bad Lieutenant, an unlikely franchise stemming from Abel Ferrara’s controversial 1992 film, makes perfect sense. Edward R. Pressman, the late prod...