Summer is here with Woody and the gang, He-man, DC supers, “jackasses,” Spielberg aliens, and a Cindy and Brenda reunion all arriving to scoop up most of your local theater screens. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for everyone else. This season always carries a bit of a wild west atmosphere as a result. […]
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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. Amrum (Fatih Akin) There’s a reason behind the odd credit at the start of Amrum: “A Hark Bohm film by Fatih Akin.” While the two collaborated before on the latter’s In […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Tribeca coverage. The film opens in theaters on June 5. As humanity continues mining Earth’s resources with wanton abandon, the concerns of those with the most influence have been towards the skies––the space dreams of inhabiting another planet once we’ve depleted all this one […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on June 5. How do you tell when you stop being good people pretending to be bad and realize you’re just bad people who can’t even trick themselves into thinking they’re anything but? Caroline (Samara Weaving) asks […]
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Maybe it’s harder than it looks to present the end of the world calmly, especially in only 93 minutes. That’s one of the major achievements of the new, relatively lo-fi anime film Jinsei. Over a hundred years—all through the prism of pop music and Japanese identity—one quickly learns how much millennial- and zoomer-doom mindset is […]
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New York is hardly lacking for decent programming of Japanese cinema. Even by such standards, the city’s preeminent destination is without question. Now in its 19th edition, Japan Society’s Japan Cuts has announced a 2026 lineup characteristically blending national totems with upstart filmmakers, a few restorations of known and lesser-known repertory titles creating a vivid […]
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Following its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival last fall, Lauren Caster’s debut feature Rhythm Is a Dancer will now be arriving in theaters beginning July 10 from the Utopia imprint Circle Collective. Directed, written, produced, and starring Caster, the drama draws on her real-life story of being the daughter of a lesbian mom […]
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In her mosque’s perfect world, Fatima (Nadia Melliti) is on the right path. A good family. A tight-knit group of protective and loyal friends. A boyfriend ready to propose. A devout faith in Islam. In many ways, this teen is doing better on the wife checklist than her older sisters (besides kitchen skills). And maybe […]
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After the May movie season proved a paradigm-shifting testament to what truly attracts a large portion of the potential audience, we don’t expect such revelations this month. However, June has plenty of worthwhile options to seek out in theaters, from the return of the blockbuster maestro to favorites from Cannes, Sundance, TIFF, and beyond. 17. […]
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After spending much of the last decade in the world of Godzilla and Kong, Adam Wingard is getting back to his genre roots. His action horror feature Onslaught, which stars Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Alex Pereira, Michael Biehn, Drew Starkey, Rebecca Hall, Eric Wareheim, and Reginald VelJohnson, will get a release on September 4. A24 […]
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