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Sundance 2026 Review: THE GALLERIST, Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega Co-Star in Ambitious Art-World Satire
Art-world satires come (The Square); art-world satires go (Velvet Buzzsaw). Few, if any, art-world satires leave any impression whatsoever beyond the transient or the ephemeral. Writer-director Cathy Yan’s (Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn,...
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: ARCO Director Ugo Bienvenu on Imagining the Future, Trusting Children, Avoiding Dystopia
French filmmaker and graphic novelist Ugo Bienvenu reflects on authorship in animation, the responsibilities of speculative storytelling, and the challenges of sustaining handcrafted cinema within a rapidly shifting global industry.
ARCO Review: The Boy Who Fell to Earth
Ugo Bienvenu directs an Academy Award-nominated animated film, featuring the voices of Natalie Portman, America Ferrara, Mark Ruffalo, Will Ferrell, Flea, and Andy Samberg.
Opening This Week: Sam Raimi's SEND HELP, Ann Hui's JULY RHAPSODY, Much More
Plus: 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Shelter,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'Arco,' 'Back to the Past,' 'A Poet.'
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Review: Nothing But Fool's Gold
Guy Ritchie's latest is a charisma-free endeavor as empty as its leads' smiles.
LADY IN THE LAKE Review: Out of the Water, Into Your Nightmares
Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram star in Alma Har'el's enthralling adaptation of Laura Lippman's mystery novel, debuting on Apple TV+.
Cannes 2023 Review: MAY DECEMBER, Delicious Ides
Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore star in a new film by Todd Haynes.
Review: THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER, One of the MCU's Best Franchises Gets Even Better
More than a decade ago, audiences around the world lost their collective minds at the mention of two words, “Avengers Initiative,” by SHIELD under-boss Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), seconds before Iron Man, the first entry in the ever-sprawling, metastasizing...
Natalie Portman Is LUCY IN THE SKY in First, Trippy Trailer
When I first heard about the project, the story of an astronaut who comes home from space and has trouble adjusting to "normal" life, I wondered how interest could be sustained for an entire feature. Now that I've seen the...
Review: VOX LUX, The Cult of Celebrity and the 'Difficult' Star
Music stars (real or imagined) and their various addictions and vices, have been fodder for films for many years. Brady Corbet's sophomore feature, Vox Lux, looks at the unusual beginnings and current troubles of mega-pop star Celeste, a stand-in for...
Review: ANNIHILATION, a Rainbow Hell of Genre Splicing
About ten years ago, I found myself musing about speculative fiction novels ripe for adaptation to the big screen. The subject of The New Weird literary movement came up via Alastair Reynold's Chasm City and China Mieville's Perdido St. Station, arguably the pinnacle of...
Rey Before Rey: Padmé Is the Protagonist of THE PHANTOM MENACE
Among many things, one area where The Phantom Menace falls behind the other Star Wars films is its lack of a clear hero's journey, driving the narrative as Luke's drives Star Wars and Rey's drives The Force Awakens. Fans like...
Review: SONG TO SONG, Where Angelic White People Have A Devil Of A Time
And so the prostitute says, "Create the Illusion, but don't believe it." I am not sure if that is Terrence Malick's thesis with Song To Song, an elliptical fairy tale of despondency, but the film does feature Val Kilmer wielding a...
Review: JACKIE, A Sublime And Intimate Look At An American Tragedy
Star-driven biopics are a dime a dozen in the annual awards race yet Pablo Larrain's searing new drama Jackie stands head and shoulders above the more conventional fare that flood theaters around this time of year. A deeply intimate story...
CAFE SOCIETY, ELLE, WILDERPEOPLE and More at Hong Kong Summer Film Fest
This year's Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival - curated by the HKIFF Cinefan programme - revealed its line-up this morning, with Woody Allen's Cafe Society announced as opening film and Paul Verhoeven's Elle closing festivities which run from 16-30...
Review: KNIGHT OF CUPS, A Malick For The New Day
Rejoice ye fans of Terrence Malick - your wily transcendentalist has emerged again! And though the film doesn't equal (ahem... transcend) his previous highs, Knight Of Cups at least finds the idiosyncratic auteur trying something new. Malick's style remains the...
Have Your Say: What Is Your Favorite 21st Century Western?
Last week, Jane Got a Gun premiered, and both Bone Tomahawk and The Hateful Eight are still on their world tours. The so-called "westerns" are no longer as rare as they used to be. Clearly, that genre is currently decades...
JANE GOT A GUN Gets a Loud, Bullet-Riddled Trailer
Jane Got A Gun has certainly had more than its fair share of problems, with original director Lynne Ramsay dropping out just as shooting began two years ago, and actors such as Jude Law and Bradley Cooper also coming and...
Berlinale 2015 Review: KNIGHT OF CUPS Sees Malick Repurposed
Rejoice ye fans of Malick - your wily transcendentalist has emerged again! And though the film doesn't equal (ahem... transcend) his previous highs, Knight Of Cups at least finds the idiosyncratic auteur trying something new. Malick's style remains the same;...
NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT to Open Berlinale '15
Spanish auteur Isabel Coixet's latest film, Nobody Wants the Night, will open the 65th edition of Berlinale, as well as being part of the official competition.Starring Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kukuchi, and Gabriel Byrne, little is known of the plot of...
