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Grace Pudel (the voice of Succession’s Sarah Snook) is wishing goodbye to her elderly friend Pinky (Jacki Weaver), who’s currently prone on her deathbed. Once she finally perishes, Grace––who’s somewhere in her 20s, yet wears a black beanie customized with...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumFilms by David Lynch, Tony Scott, David Cronenberg, and Jim Jarmusch play in “Out of the 80s,“ which includes Do the Right Thing on 35mm this Sunday; The Neverending Story plays on Sunday. Museum of the...

June proves another solid month for posters. Here’s hoping it’s the continuation of a trend that will keep pushing through to the winter and not one last gasp before the summer ushers in the usual avalanche of glossy photo collages....

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a film about retribution and redemption. Not just on screen, but in execution. After their last attempt at a blockbuster was shelved in the name of a tax loophole, directors Adil El Arbi and...

Accomplishing the rare feat of being nominated for a trio of Independent Spirit Awards (Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, and Best Cinematography) before it even secured distribution, Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s debut feature Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is now...

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. Am I OK? (Stephanie Allyne and Tig Notaro) A romantic comedy that functions best...

There’s always the risk of misusing 15 tightly mandated minutes on a director’s junket day. One imagines it increases twofold when the subject’s been of interest nearly your entire film-watching life, with whom you’d sooner exchange questions about a 2019...

Holding off on my first Seven Samurai watch since 9th grade proved wise. A 4K restoration overseen by Toho Co. Ltd. will arrive stateside next month courtesy Janus Films: July 5 at New York’s Film Forum, then July 7 at...

Any major change or innovation in a large area of a city usually means a certain population is getting left in the dust. World premiering at Tribeca Festival on June 11 and coming to Washington D.C.’s DC/DOX on June 15,...

If anything could revive the worn-out nepotism discourse, it would be this summer’s horror offerings. In August we have M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming thriller, Trap, built around an arena show for a pop superstar played by his pop-singer daughter, Saleka....