Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Cannes coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 23. Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize-winning writer and voice of the German resistance from abroad, fled Germany in 1933 to take refuge in California, where he lived for sixteen years before returning to Germany in 1949 […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 23 and hits Netflix on November 6. In a year of unknown quantities at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love has delivered the triumph for which fans of the elusive director had been […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 23. The thing about New York City is: it’s never as good as it was, yet it’s still better than anywhere else. The only thing constant is change, and the city is a paragon of […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 23. The jealousy of unhappy couples. The pettiness of mean girls. The frustration of insecure husbands. It’s a tale as old as time that’s curiously interpreted by writer-directors Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer in […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 23. Old ladies need movies as festivals like TIFF need world premieres. So is the case with A Talent for Murder, which can be applied to a subgenre known as Mirrenslop. Other highlights (or rather […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Fantasia coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 23. We enter Steve Pink’s Terrestrial with a tour through an opulent home––broken glass on the floor, a blood trail towards the door, and Allen (Jermaine Fowler) sat against the wall in a frozen panic. […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Sundance coverage under the title Little Death. The film arrives on MUBI on October 23. Maybe you’re vexed by the official description for Junk, the debut feature from music-video director Jack Begert. Maybe you want to know more than, “A middle-aged filmmaker on the […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 21. “War is not the hardest thing a person can go through. It’s not as hard as what comes after.” These opening words are the guiding theme of Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes’ One in […]
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As 2026 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our eyes on titles that may have slipped through the cracks or simply gone unseen, so—as we do each year—we’re sharing a rundown of the best titles available to watch at home. Curated from the Best Films of 2026 So Far list we published for the […]
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A dense, probing, ultimately terrifying exploration of the world’s richest man, Alex Gibney’s four-hour opus Musk isn’t going to reveal anything new about the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX that you couldn’t glean from the myriad books, podcasts, and articles. There’s no smoking gun to explain his laser-like focus on domination or even his intense […]
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