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The thing with Jackass is: there’s really nothing like it. Evolving from the skate videos of the 1990s, Jackass has persisted long enough to see its public perception come full circle: from lewd, obnoxious jerks to lewd, obnoxious sweethearts. The...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens on June 26. Continuing in the low-key register of her Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Carla Simón returns with Romería, another tale of intergenerational dissonance....

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens on June 26. Among Sundance’s great pleasures is the experience of a film steadily building buzz to the point where it becomes the talk...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens on June 26. The laws of time and space are met with frisky ambivalence in Drunken Noodles, Lucio Castro’s anticipated third feature and surely...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens on June 26. Based on a real-life conversation shared by co-director Meriem Bennani and her own mother, Bouchra (co-directed with Orian Barki and co-written...

One of the first Black writers in television, Robert L. Goodwin scripted episodes of Bonanza, Love, American Style, All in the Family, and more. His sole directorial effort came in 1971 with Black Chariot, which follows a young South Central Los Angeles...

Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole has occupied a large-enough place in cinephilia these last 25 years that it’s sort of baffling to realize the film is just now getting an official stateside run. For this alone, Big World Pictures deserves credit;...

Excavating her past in deeply moving ways, Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón has completed her family trilogy with Romería, following her debut Summer 1993 and Golden Bear winner Alcarràs. When a teenager visits the Atlantic coast of Spain to meet her paternal grandparents,...

A standout at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where director Andrius Blaževičius picked up Best Director in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, How to Divorce During the War has been picked up by Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Locarno coverage. The film opens on June 24. Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the...