Winner of the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, J.M. Harper’s Soul Patrol tells the story of the Vietnam War's first Black special operations team as they reunite to ...

Aiming to bring neophytes up to date without frustrating experts who could probably complete the interview footage’s sentences, Maiken Baird’s Edward Said: Between Worlds is a concise primer on one of...

One of the great time capsules of the year is Making Marie Antoinette, which features never-before-seen footage of Sofia Coppola at work on her 2006 period drama, all captured through the eyes of Elea...

Palme d'Or winner Fjord is a prickly film. The new feature from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu became a talking point during the festival circuit, both left- and right-wing supporters and detractor...

A few months after Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI, Amazon MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial. The film, designed to dramatize the recent history of Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and OpenAI,...

Aaron Sorkin is so pissed off about the Capitol siege on January 6 that he’s made a major studio movie about it. He knows all about who to blame because he won an Oscar for making a movie about them 1...

Julia Loktev's 13-year absence since The Loneliest Planet was once a blemish on film culture; now it's almost hard to remember. Her role as an artist saw some kind of renaissance with the unveiling of...

About halfway through The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt’s spare, somber, unflinching 2012 feature, teenager Jackie (Tallie Medel) begins attending therapy to address the underlying issue at the heart o...

Al Cook is both a true original and a derivative. He’s an Austrian blues musician who’s styled himself in the mold of Elvis Presley. With a salt-and-pepper pompadour and hairline to be jealous of, the...

At the beginning of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play Endgame, a blind curmudgeon named Hamm declares, “It's time it ended and yet I hesitate to—to end.” Confined to a chair, he bickers with his servant...

In 2021, the UNESCO World Heritage Center officially inscribed tbourida—a Moroccan equestrian military ritual dating back to the 16th century—onto its Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list. Th...

In 2021, the UNESCO World Heritage Center officially inscribed tbourida—a Moroccan equestrian military ritual dating back to the 16th century—onto its Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list. Th...

18 years ago, The Film Stage was born in the City of Buffalo. For those living in or near the Western New York city, the Buffalo International Film Festival should certainly be on your radar. Curatori...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterNYFF Revivals brings an Artavazd Pelechian program and Visconti's L'innocente. Museum of Modern ArtA Yuen Woo-pin...

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. Coyote vs. Acme (Dave Gree...

A highlight of the 2026 Directors' Fortnight is, unlike many Cannes selections, not long in waiting. Neon will release Arie and Chuko Esiri's Clarissa—a take on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway that lea...

As we go deeper into fall, the most impressive month of the year for new releases is here. Featuring no shortage of staggering, essential documentaries, as well as a few of the best international film...

It's a pleasure to report that, for the third consecutive year, I'll be attending the Tokyo International Film Festival. Past editions have offered a litany of worthwhile, even galvanizing premieres t...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! And sometimes we get to talk to stars about their own B-Sides! Today is a big one for us. The legend Josh Hartnett is on the podcast to talk abou...

There's lesser-seen and then there is Srđan Karanović's Virgina (Virdžina). But the 1991 Serbian feature is being wrested from dark corners of film history by Altered Innocence, who will release the n...

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...

At the top of our interview, director Garth Jennings pulls the laptop in close. He’s seated next to the subject of his new film: Jarvis Cocker, legendary Pulp frontman. We are Zooming to discuss their...

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...