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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The Ugly Stepsister opens in theaters on April 18. If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in...

Providing two of the most-demanded upgrades while adding a major American filmmaker to their ranks, Criterion has announced July 2025’s lineup. Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series––the former a 2017 release, the latter dating to the...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Berlinale coverage. Invention opens in theaters on April 18. Grieving comes in many guises. In Courtney Stephens’ Invention, speculative fiction blends with personal history to explore the ways we...

The last major Cannes sidebar lineup has now arrived with Directors’ Fortnight, and featured in the slate is perhaps our most-anticipated film across the entire festival: the world premiere of Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3. Also featured is Robin Campillo’s...

We’ve always loved setting trends at The Film Stage and are accordingly chuffed that, nine months after we screened a 35mm print at the Roxy, Roman Polanski’s late-career triumph The Ghost Writer comes to the Criterion Channel in next month’s...

Winner of Locarno’s Best Director and Best Performance awards last year, Laurynas Bareiša’s Drowning Dry went on to be selected as Lithuania’s entry for the Best International Feature Academy Award. Now, following a stop at New Directors/New Films, the beguiling...

Following last week’s unveiling of the Cannes 2025 lineup, the first sidebar slate has been unveiled with the Cannes Critics’ Week lineup. Particularly of note is the Opening Night film, Laura Wandel’s Playground follow-up Adam’s Interest starring Anamaria Vartolomei and...

Reteaming with Joaquin Phoenix after the divisive, impressively anxiety-inducing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster is back with his fourth feature. His western Eddington, set for a world premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival, has now been set for a...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMBard-bred films by Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Béla Tarr, and Luchino Visconti screen in Macbeth(s). Anthology Film ArchivesEssential Cinema brings Michael Snow’s Wavelength and Back and Forth screen on 16...

“To your people, your son is worth 1,000 of mine.” This striking line from Oscar-nominated director Farah Nabulsi’s feature debut The Teacher draws inspiration from the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, in which one Israeli soldier was released in exchange...