Despite July being a five-Friday month, I had fewer titles to choose from than June—the big-name releases hope to monopolize screens post-Independence Day. The Minions ride solo this weekend (save for Angel Studios) and Spider-Man slings his web in virtual isolation four weeks later… besides a Gregg Araki sex romp in wide release(!). Add Moana […]
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While he had quite a deal of fun in I Love Boosters earlier this summer, Will Poulter’s next performance is one of his most impressively dramatic. Adam Meeks’ feature debut Union County, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and will now be released by Oscilloscope Pictures on August 14, follows Poulter alongside Noah Centineo […]
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After highlighting the best films from the first half of this year, it’s time to venture into the second leg of 2026 with July’s lineup. Topped by a sure-fire selection for my year-end list, there’s also a samurai yarn by one of the world’s greatest directors, the return of a beloved cult filmmaker, and, of […]
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For as great a place as Japanese cinema holds in cinephilia, its modern iteration is hardly paid justice in stateside distribution or exhibition. I’ve been pleased watching the screeners for 2026’s iteration of Japan Cuts (which we’ll be covering in a separate feature next week) while wondering how many of these films will even land […]
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The opening titles of The Best Summer give us the only context we need: following the shoot of Billy Madison in 1995, director Tamra Davis took a camcorder and joined then-husband (and Beastie Boy) Mike D as the band toured Australia alongside South Youth, Pavement, Bikini Kill, Beck, Foo Fighters, and others as part of […]
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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss America’s Sweetheart: Julia Roberts! Our B-Sides include: I Love Trouble, America’s Sweethearts, Full Frontal, and Larry Crowne. Our lovely guest is Joe Reid […]
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A full decade since The Neon Demon—with mega-length streaming projects Too Old to Die Young and Copenhagen Cowboy perhaps comprising a separate, wholly worthwhile career—Nicolas Winding Refn returned to feature filmmaking with Her Private Hell. Neon will give the feature a theatrical run just two months later, and ahead of a July 24 release, a full trailer (featuring Sophie Thatcher […]
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One of the highest-grossing films in South Korean history upon its 2001 release, Kwak Jae-yong’s rom-com reinvention My Sassy Girl has now been restored in 4K from its original negative for its 25th anniversary. Set for a North American premiere at the 2026 New York Asian Film Festival on July 18 at Anthology Film Archives, […]
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My favorite discovery back at the 2024 New York Film Festival was Yashaddai Owens’ Jimmy, a jazzy, French New Wave-esque portrait imagining James Baldwin’s (Benny O. Arthur) arrival in Paris in November 1948. With a plethora of biographical dramas seemingly rinsing and repeating key moments of a famous subject’s life in a formally familiar fashion, […]
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Alex Cox has made (reportedly) his final film: a Western adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s classic novel Dead Souls. The book follows a drifter in Tsarist Russia who travels from town to town collecting the names of serfs who’ve died since the last census was taken and are thus considered taxable property—i.e. “dead souls.” Cox trades […]
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