Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Berlinale coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. “The id grows tedious,” art critic Jackson Arn wrote recently, “when left to speak too freely.” The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude keeps his in check by grounding flourishes in pure mundanity. Near the end […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Berlinale coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. How do you even start to write about Chime, a film that keeps secrets guarded and lives off the shocks of its knife-edge turns? It’s safe to say the director is Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It’s […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Rotterdam coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. The first time I came across the name John C. Lilly I was––rather fittingly, for reasons that will become clearer in a minute––not exactly sober. Late in the night or early in the morning, […]
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“The idea of the young [Marcel] Pagnol visiting the older Pagnol is nowhere to be found in his books,” director Sylvain Chomet tells me when it comes to A Magificent Life, his first film in fifteen years, a wistful animated portrait of one of France’s greatest artists. “The story about him being encountered by himself […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. Tel Aviv native, defector, and auteur Nadav Lapid opens his fifth feature in a catastrophic state of carouse. A filmmaker known for his employment of trademark dance sequences, Lapid is back with an equally […]
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Museum of the Moving Image has unveiled its lineup for the 15th edition of First Look, the Museum’s festival of new and innovative international cinema, taking place April 23–May 3, 2026. Opening with James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s The Misconceived and closing with Isabel Sandoval’s Moonglow, the festival also includes Rachel Lambert’s Carousel, starring Chris Pine […]
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Chalk up another sure-fire Cannes Film Festival debut. Sheep in the Box, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first feature of 2026 (preceding his adaptation of Look Back), has been set for a May 29 release in Japan, priming it for a world premiere at the French festival. Ahead of the release, the first Japanese trailer has now arrived. […]
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Medieval life happened so long ago that our natural inclination is to view it from an alien remove and marvel at how someone actually lived like that. This is silly, of course: human nature stays fairly consistent throughout history, as do plagues, unrest, or the preparations needed for a holiday. Caroline Golum’s Revelations of Divine […]
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One of the finest-curated festivals in America kicks off next month. The third edition of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies, co-presented by Kino Film Collection and Mezzanine, will take place April 9–12 and feature acclaimed films such as Blue Heron, Maddie’s Secret, Chronovisor, With Hasan in Gaza, and more. Co-founded by Micah Gottlieb and Sarah Winshall, LAFM takes place on […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. It’s common for a successful artist to be asked about advice they’d give their younger self; one film from this year’s Cannes Specials selection does the opposite. In Sylvain Chomet’s animation A Magnificent Life, […]
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