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The Daily
Feb 28, 2025 — We’ve gathered some of the best writing on each of the nominees for Best Picture Oscar.
Essays
Jan 21, 2025 — In his first Hollywood film, British director Stephen Frears dives into the nihilistic world of Jim Thompson’s fiction, delivering an adaptation profoundly attuned to the novelist’s sense of ineluctable suffering.
The Daily
Dec 11, 2024 — Sean Baker’s eighth feature has been picking up awards and nominations and landing on several best-of-2024 lists.
The Daily
Nov 12, 2024 — The festival’s second edition reasserts its emphasis on “showcasing and advocating for personal, ambitious regional cinema.”
The Daily
Oct 23, 2024 — Selections from this year’s lineup will screen in New York and Los Angeles.
Oct 23, 2024 — This once-maligned horror film is an unsparing exploration of sexual violence, remarkably centered on a complex, fully realized female protagonist, played courageously by Barbara Hershey.
The Daily
Oct 17, 2024 — Featuring a Robert Kramer retrospective, this year’s Viennale opens with Leos Carax and closes with Mati Diop.
Features
Sep 25, 2024 — At a time when women were understood to be the primary audience for movies, Hollywood studios built vehicles for actresses that doubled as showcases for the industry’s many brilliant female screenwriters.
The Daily
Sep 16, 2024 — Ready or not, the win for Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation kicks off this year’s awards season.
On the Channel
Aug 13, 2024 — This month brings riveting courtroom dramas, New American Cinema classics, giallo shockers, pre-Code gems by women screenwriters, and a new episode of Adventures in Moviegoing.