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One of the first Black writers in television, Robert L. Goodwin scripted episodes of Bonanza, Love, American Style, All in the Family, and more. His sole directorial effort came in 1971 with Black Chariot, which follows a young South Central Los Angeles drifter who becomes involved with a Black militant organization and is forced to confront questions […]

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Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole has occupied a large-enough place in cinephilia these last 25 years that it’s sort of baffling to realize the film is just now getting an official stateside run. For this alone, Big World Pictures deserves credit; our thanks are issued twofold for doing so on a new 35mm print. The Hole […]

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Excavating her past in deeply moving ways, Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón has completed her family trilogy with Romería, following her debut Summer 1993 and Golden Bear winner Alcarràs. When a teenager visits the Atlantic coast of Spain to meet her paternal grandparents, she begins piecing together the mysteries of her past. Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review […]

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A standout at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where director Andrius Blaževičius picked up Best Director in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, How to Divorce During the War has been picked up by Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films for a U.S. release. Ahead of a theatrical run beginning August 21, the first trailer […]

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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Locarno coverage. The film opens on June 24. Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the excitement for that which doesn’t exist. That’s a good way of thinking about the cinema […]

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With the bevy of films NEON brought to Cannes Film Festival this year, it’s no surprise some of them will be rolling out in theaters starting this summer. On July 24 (the same day the distributor will release Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell), they will debut Hirokazu Koreeda’s Sheep in the Box in U.S. […]

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In 1973, Variety declared John Waters’ breakthrough film Pink Flamingos “one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.” In 2022, that same film received a Blu-ray release from the arbiters of official film culture at the Criterion Collection. From underground provocateur to national treasure with a star on the Hollywood Walk of […]

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While he can soon be heard in the next Minions movie, Jesse Eisenberg’s major cinematic contribution of the year is his third directorial feature, following up 2024’s Oscar-winning A Real Pain. The Debut, which stars Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu, Colton Ryan, Lilli Cooper, Maulik Pancholy, and Bernadette Peters, will be […]

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Nobody has ever quite treated images as a building block of narrative and mood like Otar Iosseliani, though you’re forgiven for having no sense of this. A favorite of those who attend the repertory sections of international festivals, the Georgian filmmaker has long been one of world cinema’s well-kept secrets. It’s with some bittersweet appreciation, […]

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One year on from their Wes Anderson set, the Criterion Collection will debut arguably their most ambitious release this decade: a career-spanning, all-4K Stanley Kubrick retrospective arriving on October 20. Comprising 30—yes, thirty—discs across UHD and Blu-ray editions, it collates previously issued editions of Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon; upgrades Paths of Glory, The […]

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