It’s no surprise Rachel House gives the first credit at the end of her feature debut to Te Kāhui Tupua, the mountain at the center of The Mountain. Co-written by Tom Furniss (from his original story), the film follows a young girl (Elizabeth Atkinson’s Sam) who decides to climb their peak in order to request […]
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Following last week’s unveiling of the main sections of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, we now have the lineups for three sidebars. First up and most notably, Directors’ Fortnight has revealed its promising lineup, which includes Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam, starring Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough, Radu Jude’s Diary of a Chambermaid, Lisandro Alonso’s Double […]
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Following up one of his smallest-scale films, Suspended Time, Olivier Assayas’ latest is the epic political drama The Wizard of the Kremlin, based on Giuliano da Empoli. Starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin alongside Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Will Keen, and Jeffrey Wright, the Venice selection was picked up by Vertical for a […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 17. You might wonder if you’re watching the wrong movie during the prologue to Ben Wheatley’s Normal. The setting is Japan, three Yakuza are being reprimanded by their boss, and blood is splattering against the […]
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A few weeks ago, I landed in Copenhagen for this year’s CPH:DOX in the early hours of the evening, still a little dazed from covering the Oscars the night before. My plan that night was to catch a screening of Stillz’s Barrio Triste—the latest release from Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD productions and frankly, as my colleague […]
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With it being 13 long years since Spike Jonze last directed a narrative film and no feature projects in sight, his creative output has mostly been music videos, stand-up specials, ads, and shepherding the Jackass franchise. His latest directorial work has now arrived in the form of the surrealist three-minute video Shape of Dreams starring […]
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A few weeks ago, I landed in Copenhagen for this year’s CPH:DOX in the early hours of the evening, still a little dazed from covering the Oscars the night before. My plan that night was to catch a screening of Stillz’s Barrio Triste—the latest release from Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD productions and frankly, as my colleague […]
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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 celebrate our greatest living comedian: Steve Martin! Our B-Sides include The Man with Two Brains, The Lonely Guy, The Spanish Prisoner, and Novocaine. Our […]
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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. Dreams (Michel Franco) Following Memory, Michel Franco and Jessica Chastain reunited for Dreams, one of the most accomplished films of the director’s career, following a socialite who embarks on a […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaKen Jacobs’ XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX and The Whirled screen on Friday; Jack Harlow has programmed Secrets & Lies and a print of 8½, while Pete Ohs presents Agnieszka Holland’s Provincial Assets on Sunday; Final Fantasy shows on 35mm. Museum of the Moving ImageA massive retrospective of 2001 in cinema concludes […]
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