Festivals Videos
Busan 2026 Review: INHERIT, Seductive Thai Insect Horror
Director Banjong Pisanthanakun's thriller stars Davika Hoorne and Thitiya Jirapornsilp. (Watch the trailer.)
Tokyo 2026 Interview: SISTER BROTHER MANHOLE COVER, Milcho Manchevski on Satire and "The Death of Beauty"
Milcho Manchevski discusses the six-country co-production behind the film and the challenge of preserving artistic freedom amid political interference, funding pressures and festival expectations.
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: THE OBSESSED
Director Takahashi Wataru may not be a household name yet among anime fans, but the man has built an impressive resumee already. An assistant to Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli, he was one of the people working on the change from...
London 2026 Review: CLUB KID, Jordan Firstman's Warm and Tragic Bad Dad Dramedy
A stealth rebuild of a middling Adam Sandler film proves to be one of the year's best and most affecting films.
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIME
Six years ago, CGI-special effects specialist Hirota Yuusuke directed his first feature film, the anime Poupelle of Chimney Town, which I happened to like a lot. He just released his second feature, and it is... a sequel to Poupelle of...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: RHAPSODY, RHAPSODY, A Rom-Com Which Keeps It Real
It's the question which pops up in any interview with a director: "What will your next film be?" It is so common a question that if the mood allows for it, I will add "A romantic comedy perhaps?" and that...
BRUTE 1986: Cinephobia Releasing Acquires Marcel Walz's '80s Slasher Sequel
A glam metal band's music video shoot in an abandoned Western town devolves into a blood-soaked night of terror when they cross paths with a nearby family of ultra-violent lunatics.
London 2026 Review: INK, Danny Boyle's Unruly and Troublesome Free Press Polemic
Who freed the press? It's been a democratic right that's built civilisations and chipped away at them when they've crumbled, but in today's age of near-limitless information at the palm of your hand, who were the people who gave it...
A LONG WINTER Trailer: Andrew Haigh's Fest Favorite Sets Winter Release Date
Andrew Haigh’s new movie A Long Winter is hitting theaters soon after hitting the festival circuit at Telluride, Toronto, and NYFF. In 1951, high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Mike’s (Hechinger) world is thrown into uncertainty when his mother vanishes...
New York 2026 Review: ARTIFICIAL Doesn't Make a Bigger Splash
The NYFF premiere of Luca Guadagnino ‘s Artificial, which is set for a theatrical release in December, comes one year after the NYFF premiere of the director’s previous live-action feature, After the Hunt. Unlike the previous film, which was highly...
London 2026 Review: MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE, The Godmother of the Making-Of Doc Bids a Moving Farewell
Eleanor Coppola's kind-hearted chronicle of her daughter Sofia's epic is a delightful swansong.
New York 2026 Review: THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, Once Upon a Time in Bulgaria
A middle-aged man, Said (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov), comes back to his small Bulgarian hometown, situated not far from the borders of both Turkey and Greece. He is here to conduct some shady deal involving diesel fuel, but when his car...
New York 2026 Review: BITTER CHRISTMAS, Weird Act of Artistic Self-Deprecation
Pedro Almodóvar's latest feature film.
New York 2026 Review: BEHEMOTH!, Total Ungrip of the Heart
Pedro Pascal stars in director Tony Gilroy's new film.
Vlissingen 2026 Review: ISABEL Shows Mid-Life And Hangovers
Ten years ago, filmmaker Gabe Klinger released his debut feature with Porto (reviewed here by Shelagh), and in that film he put some serious question marks at the popular cinematic trope of people being destined for each other after having...
Tokyo 2026 Exclusive: SISTER BROTHER MANHOLE COVER Poster Premiere
Milcho Manchevski returns to Tokyo with an offbeat social comedy about survival, solidarity, and the families people create for themselves.
THE DARK GETS IN Teaser: Mock-True Crime Documentary to Premiere at Beyond Fest
When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path.
New York 2026 Review: POSSIBLE LOVE Examines Class Divide
It's surely one of the finest films of the year, and yet another masterpiece by Lee Chang-dong.
Toronto 2026 Review: THE SMELL OF APPLES, Subtle, Unsettling Coming-of-Age Drama Under Apartheid
John Trengove adapts Mark Behr's novel into a restrained, disquieting coming-of-age drama that filters apartheid-era privilege, racial hierarchy and paternal idealization through a child's limited understanding.
Toronto 2026 Review: TEHRAN, UNDER THE SKIN Reveals the Politics Beneath the Promise of Transformation
Afsaneh Salari's formally controlled documentary examines cosmetic surgery in Iran as an unstable expression of conformity, resistance, consumer desire, and bodily autonomy.
