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Albert Birney on Reclaiming the Mantle of Techno-Optimism with ‘OBEX’

Interview: Albert Birney on Reclaiming the Mantle of Techno-Optimism with ‘OBEX’

Birney discusses where he sees connective tissue between cinema and video games.

by Marshall Shaffer
January 8, 2026
Greenland 2: Migration

‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Review: Disaster Sequel Trades Intimacy for Generic Peril

by Derek Smith
Interview: Lav Diaz on Revising His Processes for the Acid Trip of ‘Magellan’

Interview: Lav Diaz on Poking Holes in Mythology with His “Acid Trip” Version of ‘Magellan’

by Marshall Shaffer
My Neighbor Adolf

‘My Neighbor Adolf’ Review: A Dubiously Sentimental Portrait of an Unlikely Friendship

by Eli Friedberg
Wicked: For Good

‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: Jon M. Chu’s Breathlessly Stretched-Out Second Act

by Dan Rubins
November 18, 2025

For Good is never really emotionally affecting, even on the level of nostalgia.

Cactus Pears

‘Cactus Pears’ Review: Rohan Kanawade’s Gently Stirring Portrait of Grief and Longing

by Charles Lyons-Burt
November 16, 2025

The film creates an ouroboros where the future and the past circle back on one another.

Jalmari Helander on the Mayhem-Filled Fever Dream of Sisu: Road to Revenge

Interview: Jalmari Helander on the Mayhem-Filled Fever Dream of ‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’

by Rocco T. Thompson
November 16, 2025

The filmmaker discusses his influences and inventing weird ways to kill people.

Keeper

‘Keeper’ Review: Osgood Perkins’s Airless, Abstruse Cabin-in-the-Woods Chiller

by Alexander Mooney
November 14, 2025

Keeper is a latter-day Perkins horror film through and through.

Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value and Acting Within Acting

Interview: Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård on ‘Sentimental Value’ and Acting Within Acting

by Marshall Shaffer
November 14, 2025

The actors discuss how they approached the lightly satirical elements of Joachim Trier’s film.

Left-Handed Girl

‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: Shih-Ching Tsou’s Intimately Detailed, Taipei-Set Melodrama

by Marshall Shaffer
November 13, 2025

The film delicately teases out its characters’ intersecting ambitions and intertwined fates.

The Carpenter’s Son

‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Review: Lotfy Nathan’s Dreary Biblical Fantasy Reins In Nicolas Cage

by Mark Hanson
November 11, 2025

This biblical fantasy’s dreary, static solemnity invites comparison to Robert Eggers’s work.

The Running Man

‘The Running Man’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Mollifying Vision of Empowerment

by Jake Cole
November 11, 2025

Wright lends verve to the film’s action, but his expansion of the novel is a ruinous one.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t

‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: Smoke, Mirrors, and Nothing Beneath

by Derek Smith
November 11, 2025

The film’s convoluted plot is one big MacGuffin leading to the thwarting of a cartoon villain.

Arco

‘Arco’ Review: Ugo Bienvenu’s Animated Adventure Harbors Hope for a Burning World

by Justin Clark
November 10, 2025

The film attests to hope being a resource worth preserving in dark times.

Oliver Laxe and Sergi López on Sirât and the Memory of the Body

Interview: Óliver Laxe and Sergi López on the Trance-Inducing ‘Sirât’ and Body Memory

by Marshall Shaffer
November 9, 2025

Laxe and López discuss what they took away from grappling with the imminence of death.

Kokuho

‘Kokuho’ Review: Lee Sang-il’s Intimate and Grand Epic About the World of Kabuki Theater

by Ross McIndoe
November 9, 2025

Lee’s adaptation of Kokuho takes a novelistic approach to scene and character.

Ira Sachs and Linda Rosenkrantz on Reconstructing Peter Hujar’s Day

Interview: Ira Sachs and Linda Rosenkrantz on Reconstructing ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’

by Marshall Shaffer
November 5, 2025

Sachs and Rosenkrantz discuss what attracts them to the everyday lives of artists.

Predator: Badlands

‘Predator: Badlands’ Review: Dan Trachtenberg’s Violent and Disarmingly Sweet Monster Mash

by Justin Clark
November 5, 2025

The action is inventive and heart-pounding, but it’s also the least surprising part of the film.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’ Review: A Rousing Portrait of a Defiant Gaza Journalist

by Eli Friedberg
November 3, 2025

The film is more than a reflection on barriers and bridges in the age of screen omnipresence.

Christy

‘Christy’ Review: David Michôd’s Boxing Biopic Is Sydney Sweeney’s Defining Star Text

by Marshall Shaffer
November 2, 2025

The scrappiness that animates Sweeney as an actor finds natural expression through Martin.

Nuremberg

‘Nuremberg’ Review: Historical Drama Holds a Mirror to Our Current Era of Authoritarianism

by Rocco T. Thompson
November 1, 2025

James Vanderbilt’s film is in direct conversation with the moment in which it was made.

Radu Jude on His Meta Dracula and Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence

Interview: Radu Jude on His Meta ‘Dracula’ and Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence

by Marshall Shaffer
October 30, 2025

Jude discusses why cinema being in a state of constant crisis exhilarates him.

Hedda

‘Hedda’ Review: Nia DaCosta’s Entertaining, If Uneven, Reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Play

by David Robb
October 30, 2025

Hedda is more of a fun exercise in inventive adaptation than a fully-realized work.

Ballad of a Small Player

‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Review: A Hollow Portrait of a Gambler’s Redemption

by Chris Barsanti
October 28, 2025

The film is a fevered look at a man on the run from his crimes and himself.

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