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Opening This Week: ANACONDA Bites, NO OTHER CHOICE Hunts Jobs, THE PLAGUE Plunges Into Terror
Plus: 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' 'Marty Supreme,' 'Song Sung Blue,' 'The Choral.'
DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA 4K Review: Barefoot in a Suit
Spike Lee directs an electrifying film that leaps off the stage in Criterion's sterling new release.
RETURN TO REASON Blu-ray Review: The Dizzying Avant Garde of Man Ray
The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the...
Camerimage 2025 Interview: SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE Director Scott Cooper and DP Masanobu Takayanagi Talk Defying Expectations
A biopic about one of the most famous musicians in rock, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere avoids the standard life story formula to focus on the trauma of creating the album Nebraska. With Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, and...
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...
THIS IS SPINAL TAP 4K Keeps Rocking
Directed by the multi-talented Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men, The Princess Bride, Misery, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally), This is Spinal Tap was released in 1984. Using the style of cinema verité for this proto-spoof documentary, Reiner...
Now in Theaters: Yamashita's Rock 'N' Roll Dream LINDA LINDA LINDA Is Back In A Gorgeous 4K Restoration
As the United States begins to send its teenagers back to school for the fall term, there is no better way to celebrate adolescent ennui than with the absolute joy bomb that is Linda Linda Linda! Thankfully for all of...
Now Streaming: Akiva Schaffer's HOT ROD, THE WATCH, POPSTAR, CHIP 'N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS
Where to watch the director's first four feature films.
Fantasia 2025 Review: FORBIDDEN CITY, Cooks Up Quality Kung Fu in Rome
This glossy Martial Arts extravaganza from Gabriele Mainetti (Freaks Out, They Call Me Jeeg Robot) is the real deal, and leading contender for action picture of the year. From its superb opening ‘bait and switch’ involving China’s One-Child policy, to...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE DEVIL'S BRIDE, An Impish Demon Vies For A Mill Owner's Daughter In This Chaotic Musical
Mischievous devil Pinchiukas makes a deal with mill owner Baltaragis to help him marry his true love and ensure the success of his business in exchange for the hand of his daughter in marriage in director Arunas Zebriunas’s raucous 1974...
OPUS Review: Mixing Splatter Horror and Black Comedy Into Satire
Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Stephanie Suganami, Young Mazino, and Tatanka Means star in director Mark Anthony Green's debut feature.
THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD Blu-ray Review: The Contrapuntal Biopic
Biopics usually follow one of two structures: the majority giving a general, sweeping account of a person's life, with various scenes focusing on 'important' events that would likely already be known by the audience; these are stories or breadth, not...
Tribeca 2025 Review: ON A STRING, Sharp Comedy About Struggling Musicians
Isabel Hagen directs herself in a sharp look at struggling musicians.
Criterion in August 2025: FIRES ON THE PLAIN, THE BURMESE HARP, CAIRO STATION Lead Summer Sizzlers
Plus: Vittorio De Sica's 'Shoeshine,' Edward Yang's 'A Confucian Confusion' and 'Mahjong,' Zeinabu irene Davis's 's 'Compensation,' and Alice Wu's 'Saving Face.'
SOME LIKE IT HOT Blu-ray Review: Criterion Re-issues the Perfect Comedy
Some Like it Hot is one of those films that I can't remember not having seen; and yet, every time I watch it, it still feels fresh and funny. There is so much I learned from it for the first...
SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES: First Teaser For Sequel to Metal Mockumentary
Variety shared a teaser for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues has arrived. Bleecker Street acquired the U.S. rights for the sequel and have set a September 12th theatrical date (hmmm... TIFF world premiere anyone?). Bleecker Street also have the...
SLY LIVES! (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS) Review: Sly Stone Doc Enlightens, Entertains
Win a well-earned Academy Award on your first try and chances are, you’d be tempted to call it a day and quit while you were ahead. For Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, though, winning a Best Documentary Oscar for Summer of...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE COLORS WITHIN Shines With Bright Hues
Back in 2016-2017, director Yamada Naoko shook up the anime industry with her high-school bully drama A Silent Voice. The film took an uncommonly candid view of life in school, with people often doing stupid things while still totally unaware...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: LET'S GO KARAOKE! Unites Audiences!
This year, director Yamashita Nobuhiro (Linda, Linda, Linda, Tamako in Moratorium) was the guest of honor at the Camera Japan Film Festival in Rotterdam. The programme showed no less than five films by him, all of which were released in...
Fantasia 2024: SINCOPAT, Short Film Short Review
During the opening credits of short film, Sincopat, many festival laurels are initially displayed onscreen. Then, following a loud ‘bang’ on the soundtrack, several dozen more appear. This is a first for me, but it is in sync with the...
