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Michael Shannon set himself up with quite a daunting challenge for his directorial debut: how can one capture oppressively bleak, soul-consuming feelings of guilt while not having the viewer feel trapped in a flat register of misery porn? Thanks to...

In towards which nobody could have anything but the most equitable reactions, well, the headline says it all, much as I find the development difficult to 100% conceptualize or, given today’s date, plainly believe. Seemingly salvaging The Movie Critic (or...

While our sprawling summer movie preview will arrive by the end of the month, we’ll first take a comprehensive look at the April releases to have on your radar. Featuring festival favorites from as far back as early last year...

The Academy Awards likely aren’t that important in the grand scheme of film history, but legendary actor Henry Fonda winning his first competitive Oscar merely five months before dying is perhaps one of those things that makes you think on...

Conan O’Brien can be forgiven for quipping “Over to you, Estonia” after Flow won Latvia its first Oscar last month. The concept of a shared Baltic Cinema is still a relatively obscure one: “We have this complicated identity, culturally,” Laurynas...

A group of students, primarily led by minority voices, launched encampments in protest of Columbia University’s financial ties to companies with the express purpose of advancing weapons and technology to fuel the war machine. Police were called in to forcefully...

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Christopher Nolan, Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, Theo Angelopoulos, Lynne Ramsay, Tsai Ming-liang, Michael Haneke, Lee Chang-dong, Terence Davies, Shōhei Imamura, Bi Gan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke, Wong Kar-wai, Yorgos Lanthimos, Denis Villleneuve, Céline Sciamma, Guillermo del Toro, Kelly...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Tendaberry is now on VOD and arrives on MUBI on April 25. A soulful coming-of-age story with far more on its mind than the here...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMMy ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective Mirror of Life begins, with numerous restorations making their North American premiere. Roxy CinemaEraserhead and An American Tail screen, the latter for free. Anthology Film ArchivesThe...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we talk about two legends: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger!...