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. Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron) James Cameron closes a chapter on big filmmaking at a time whenhis maximalist spirit is in increasingly short supply. Few filmmakers have the […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMA 35mm-heavy Masahiro Shinoda retrospective continues. Museum of Modern ArtThe expertly programmed Universal Westerns continues with King Vidor on 35mm, Clint Eastwood, and Don Seigel. Film at Lincoln CenterAn Elaine May retrospective begins. Film ForumA Guy Maddin series begins; Peter Hutton’s No Picnic and Satyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest screen in […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens on June 26. The laws of time and space are met with frisky ambivalence in Drunken Noodles, Lucio Castro’s anticipated third feature and surely the hottest title in this year’s ACID lineup. Most people familiar with the New York-based, […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens on June 26. Based on a real-life conversation shared by co-director Meriem Bennani and her own mother, Bouchra (co-directed with Orian Barki and co-written by them and Ayla Mrabet) opens with a phone call. Aicha (Yto Barrada) is checking […]
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Apologies in advance to Christopher Nolan, but the ensemble period epic we’re most looking forward to in July hails from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The Samurai and the Prisoner—led by Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Joe Odagiri, Munetaka Aoki, Ryota Miyadate, and Tasuku Emoto—premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and will begin a U.S. roll-out on […]
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Late Fame finds that not-so-common sweet spot between caustic and elegiac, Willem Dafoe (a vision of resparked enthusiasm) and Greta Lee (a vision of too-sparked eagerness) making a meal from Samy Burch (May December) adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s novella, while Kent Jones parlays his deep knowledge of New York into the city’s most photogenic screen appearance […]
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As we approach 2026’s halfway point, it’s time to take a temperature of the finest cinema thus far: we’ve rounded up our favorites from the first six months of this year, some of which have flown under the radar. Kindly note that this is based solely on U.S. theatrical and digital releases from 2026. Check […]
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The thing with Jackass is: there’s really nothing like it. Evolving from the skate videos of the 1990s, Jackass has persisted long enough to see its public perception come full circle: from lewd, obnoxious jerks to lewd, obnoxious sweethearts. The franchise never tried to be anything it wasn’t. In making the faithful leap from television […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens on June 26. Continuing in the low-key register of her Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Carla Simón returns with Romería, another tale of intergenerational dissonance. A film about the stories families choose to tell and the ones they bury deep […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens on June 26. Among Sundance’s great pleasures is the experience of a film steadily building buzz to the point where it becomes the talk of the fest. Seats become scarce and a unique electricity imbues a charge to those […]
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