Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. Julia Ducournau has turned 180 degrees since Titane, the gritty and bizarre thriller that Spike Lee’s Cannes jury awarded the Palme d’Or in 2021. There’s no doubt that all eyes are on her newest, […]
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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. Julia Ducournau has turned 180 degrees since Titane, the gritty and bizarre thriller that Spike Lee’s Cannes jury awarded the Palme d’Or in 2021. There’s no doubt that all eyes are on her newest, […]
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Unless you’re considering his perfect parodies in Clouds of Sils Maria and 2022’s Irma Vep, the words “Olivier Assayas” and “franchise cinema” don’t quite gel. If he were to make a late-in-life pivot, however, one could hardly ask for better means than his autobiographical films. Speaking to our own Nick Newman for the Metrograph Journal, […]
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Speaking with Christian Petzold last fall, the German auteur told us he was developing two films: one being a crime story for German TV, which would be his fourth installment of Polizeiruf 110, and another about “political-left witches who are killing capitalists.” He’s now got another project in the works, one that would mark the […]
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A film squarely in the wheelhouse of co-writer and director John Carney, Power Ballad plays the hits with a few heartfelt twists. It leans into the natural chemistry of its leads while exploring the cost of stardom, ownership, and identity within the music industry, following two Americans in Ireland: Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime rocker […]
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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. All That’s Left of You (Cherien Dabis) A sprawling, gripping drama that starts with the foundation of the state of Israel and the displacement of Palestinian families in Jaffa, […]
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One of the most substantial restorations of the year is for Maurice Pialat’s seven-part epic La maison des bois (The House in the Woods), which follows a family living in the French countryside post-World War I. Previously only available in quite low quality, the 4K restoration was completed in 2024 by the French National Audiovisual […]
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Nearly three years after the Cannes premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese has now embarked on shooting his next feature. Production began last month in the Czech Republic for Scorsese’s Patrick Marber-scripted adaptation of Peter Cameron’s haunting novel What Happens at Night, with a cast featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Mads Mikkelsen, […]
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I’ve done interviews in many settings: multiplexes, screening rooms, green rooms, distributor offices, post houses, cafés, hotels—many hotels—or whatever space could be found then and there. (A conversation with a veritable architect of the modern cinema wound up in a coat closet.) Christian Petzold is the first who has apologized for the room. I saw […]
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Following up 2022’s The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh is returning with John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Mariana di Girolamo, Ailín Salas, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey for Wild Horse Nine. Although not set for a release until November 6, Searchlight Pictures has gotten a jump on the promotion with the first trailer now […]
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