“Someone at Sony Ericsson did a very good job!” Shielded from Locarno’s scorching heat inside the air-conditioned lobby of the Kursaal theater, Alexandre Koberidze is extolling the virtues of the camera with which he shot his latest, Dry Leaf. Not the high-resolution equipment he used for his sophomore feature, 2021’s feted What Do We See […]
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Following up Evil Does Not Exist and Gift, Ryusuke Hamaguchi is returning this year with All of a Sudden. The French production, starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, landed at the top spot in our 100 most-anticipated films of 2026, and with a June 19 release set in Japan, a Cannes debut is all but […]
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Thornton Wilder’s meta-play Our Town, a staple of high school productions and English-class readings, has been used countless times onscreen—from its own adaptations to a memorable episode of The Wonder Years—as an entry point for talking about life on an earth that, as protagonist Emily Webb famously says, is “too wonderful for anybody to realize […]
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Before he heads off to embark on his James Bond film, Denis Villeneuve is concluding the saga that has taken up much of the last decade. Going by the more marketing-friendly title of Dune: Part Three rather than Dune Messiah, the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel once again brings together Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Anya […]
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One of the most acclaimed feature-directing debuts of the last year, Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron premiered at the Locarno Film Festival where it picked up the Best First Feature Award, and will now be arriving this spring from Janus Films. Ahead of an April 17 theatrical release, the first trailer has now landed. Here’s the […]
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan usually takes more than a few years between films as of late, and thus we’ve been waiting to hear what might be next. The Turkish filmmaker has now unveiled his latest feature, following About Dry Grasses, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where Merve Dizdar picked up the Best Actress […]
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Reuniting after 2017’s In the Fade, Fatih Akin and Diane Kruger’s WWII-set drama Amrum premiered to acclaim at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and will now be arriving soon. Also starring Laura Tonke, Jasper Billerbeck, and Lisa Hagmeister, the drama set during the final months of World War II was picked up by Kino Lorber, […]
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In 2022, Charli XCX emblazoned “they don’t build statues of critics” on a custom t-shirt––a little nudge and provocation rather than a knock-down to a great tradition of writing. And they do make (rightly) fawning documentaries about them, with Matty Wishnow’s The Last Critic premiering in SXSW’s Documentary Feature Competition and examining the pioneering music […]
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As far as dumb comedies go, Pizza Movie is a masterclass in throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. It doesn’t always land, but when it does, it really does. This is the latest production from Syracuse, NY-based American High, a company founded on making broad comedies mostly within a repurposed high school […]
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One of the great films of the year, Sho Miyake’s gorgeous, tranquil Two Seasons, Two Strangers picked up the Golden Leopard at Locarno last summer and will now get a U.S. release this April. Set for a North American premiere at New Directors/New Films on April 17 and 19, it’ll then begin its theatrical release […]
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