International Features

Opening This Week: THE BRIDE! Goes Bold, DOLLY Fights Back, HEEL Rebels

Plus: 'Andre Is an Idiot' and 'Hoppers.'

Now Playing: SCREAM 7 Not So Scary, GHOST ELEPHANTS Not a Myth

Plus: 'Dreams,' 'Micro Budget,' 'Bring the Law,' 'The Napa Boys,' 'EPiC,' 'A Better Tomorrow.'

Echoes: Sarmad Sultan Khoosat's LALI, Eccentric Auteur Blooms in Berlin

The 2026 Berlin Film Festival has concluded, and the winners have been announced, notably Yellow Letters. Despite not being able to win any prize at the 76th Berlinale, an all-Pakistani production definitely made waves at its premiere. Packed with the...

Opening This Week: SCREAM 7, DREAMS, A BETTER TOMORROW

Plus: 'Ghost Elephants,' 'Microbudget,' 'Bring the Law,' 'The Napa Boys,' 'EPic.'

Rotterdam 2026 Wrap: All Our Coverage

The 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam has concluded, so here's our reviews, features, and interviews (so far).

Friday One Sheet: LIVING THE LAND

There are some posters which communicate to the observer that, if they like their films with exceptional composition and visual mise en scène, then they are in good filmmaking hands. The key art for Huo Meng's Venice Silver Bear winner,...

Now Playing: BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS and Some Other Movies

Spoiler: 'Psycho Killer' is quite awful, and 'How to Make a Killing' is not much better. Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful' and two 'One Mile' films.

Politics of Time: The Films of Anocha Suwichakornpong at Metrograph

Metrograph, New York's Lower Eastside repertory/arthouse film institution, is surveying the works of Thai filmmaker, Anocha Suwichakornpong, starting February 21st through two consecutive weekend screening of her feature-length and short films, as well as streaming of her work for home...

Opening This Week: PSYCHO KILLER vs. HOW TO MAKE A KILLING

Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful,' 'One Mile' (both chapters), 'Kokuho.'

Sundance 2026 Wrap: We Came, We Saw, We Reviewed

Updated as of February 16, 2026. As our own Ryland Aldrich noted in his wonderful essay, Ryland's Musings From Two Decades of Sundance, the Sundance Film Festival celebrated its final edition in Park City, Utah, with a bang -- and...

Now Playing: BY DESIGN, CRIME 101, GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE

Also in theaters: 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Cold Storage,' 'The Mortuary Assistant.' Plus, on VOD: 'Broken Bird' and 'Sweetness.'

Friday One Sheet: ROSE OF NEVADA

Featuring neither flowers nor the desert state of America, Rose of Nevada is a deeply authentic, and thoroughly strange time-travel fishing movie that is mainly drama, but, as the red typesetting suggests, with elements of dread and horror. The credits...

Rotterdam 2026: BAZAAR (MURDER IN THE BUILDING), On Lions in the Highlands, Or, The Eternal Life of Alfred Hitchcock

With Bazaar (Murder in the Building), Rémi Bezançon delivered the intended closing film of IFFR: a playful homage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. One of Hitchcock's finest films, Rear Window, is about watching, listening, and cinema itself. Photojournalist Jeff, accustomed to...

Opening This Week: Indies Dominate, While Luck and Fun Battle Love

'Crime 101,' 'Sweetness,' 'Broken Bird,' 'Cold Storage,' 'By Design,' and 'The Mortuary Assistant' compete with two wide releases.

Now Playing: THE INFINITE HUSK, PILLION, JIMPA, More

Plus: Luc Besson's 'Dracula' and Renny Harlin's 'The Strangers: Chapter 3.'

Friday One Sheet: Calgary Underground Film Festival 2026

Western Canada's ever-expanding genre extravaganza, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (or CUFF for short) has put out its key art in anticipation of its April 16th launch. In keeping with its maximalist underground comix design ethos, and always using a...

Echoes: How Young and Veteran Filmmakers in Pakistan Differ in Style and Storytelling

Pakistani cinema has been shaped by both veteran and emerging filmmakers, whose contrasting approaches to style and storytelling define the industry today. While pioneers worked within technical and structural constraints to establish cinematic traditions, the new generation is pushing boundaries...

Opening This Week: Luc Besson's DRACULA, Renny Harlin's THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3

Plus: Aaron Silverstein's 'The Infinite Husk,' Alexander Skarsgard in 'Pillion,' Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in 'Jimpa.'

Now Playing: SEND HELP, ARCO, SHELTER, BACK TO THE PAST

Plus: 'July Rhapsody,' 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'A Poet.'