International
SXSW 2026 Opening Night: I LOVE BOOSTERS, Boots Randolph to Kick It Off
Exciting news out of Austin, Texas, today, as SXSW 2026 announced its opening night film for its 40th year: the world premiere of Boots Randolph's I Love Boosters. Here's the official verbiage: "South by Southwest® (SXSW®) announced today that NEON's...
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ANCESTRAL BEASTS: Mongrel Media Boards Indigenous, Psychological Horror
Production has begun on an indigenous, psychological horror here in Canada called Ancestral Beasts. This will be the sophomore feature film from Red River Métis filmmaker and writer, Tim Riedel. Production has begun on home ice in Manitoba before coming...
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! 4K Review: Talking About the Weather
Powell & Pressburger completists will be pleased with the new transfer.
A USEFUL GHOST Poster and Trailer: A Very Queer Ghost Story
Earlier this year, our own Dustin Chang reported on a very queer tale, A Useful Ghost, that enjoyed its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Its official synopsis describes it like this: "March is mourning his wife Nat who...
Tokyo 2025 Interview: THE CHATTERBOXES Director Ken Kawai Discusses Crafting Humor From Language Barriers
A rising CODA director discusses his charming dramedy of communication errors.
Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION
Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS Review: A Phenomenal Directorial Debut
Jara Sofija Ostan and Mina Švajger star in Urška Djukić's remarkable film that's about more than coming of age.
Jacques Audiard Returns to Criterion with Two Acclaimed Crime Thrillers
Jacques Audiard made his Criterion debut back in 2017 with his seventh feature film, Dheepan, and eight years later he's back with two of his earlier titles. Like that movie, Read My Lips and The Beat That My Heart Skipped...
Now Streaming: STRANGER THINGS, BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI, THE BALTIMORONS
Plus: 'Left-Handed Girl,' 'The Beatles Anthology' and new 'Krypto Saves the Day!'
THE SECRET AGENT Review: Much Smarter Than It Pretends To Be
Kleber Mendonça Filho's epic stars Wagner Moura.
THE TALE OF SILYAN Review: Astonishingly Precise Visual Storytelling
The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and...
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ARROW Player in December: Santa, Satin and Style! ... ... Correction, That's Satan and Style!
With less than a month unitl Christmas we are here with a reminder that the gift that keeps on giving all year round, the ARROW Player, will be back next month with a bevy of holiday and horror-day treats. ...
Friday One Sheet: RELAPSE
Sometimes, all you need for an effective piece of key art is a well lit photo and a generous bit of negative space. Frost Foundry's poster for Paul Boyd's live-streaming drug addiction rock and roll drama, Relapse, is just that....
THE THING WITH FEATHERS Review: Big Bird and the Stages of Grief
There are a wide variety of memes on the Internet, where famous movie characters make alternative choices at the start of their story (Neo takes the blue pill, Harry doesn’t go with Hagrid, and so forth), and the end credits...
LEFT-HANDED GIRL Review: Vibrant Slice of Taipei Night Market Life
Shih-Ching Tsou directed and co-wrote Taiwan's official Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film; Sean Baker co-wrote.
Now Streaming: BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI Starts Flat
Wong Kar-Wai's first television series, now on The Criterion Channel.
Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT
Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...
NO MORE TIME Exclusive Trailer: Are You Paranoid or Is It Real?
While speculative films about outbreaks of illness and plague are not new to cinema, we definitely look at them differently, and have more personal and arguably somewshat accurate stories to tell along these lines, given that we have lived through...
DOWN RIVER: Trailer Drops For Southern Gothic Thriller Before December Release
Quiver Distribution picked up the North American rights to Brian Barnard's Southern Gothic thriller, Down River. The thriller lands on digital and on Demand on December 9, 2025, and Quiver sent out the trailer for the flick. Check it out below. ...
Now Streaming: MEAT KILLS, Or Rather Misguided People Do...
Hailed as "the bloodiest Dutch horror movie ever" and proudly touting the NC17 rating it got during its States-based festival run, Martijn Smits' Vleesdag a.k.a. Meat Kills seems to be gunning for the gorehounds. As such I almost didn't see...
