After making stops at last year’s Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF, Francesco Sossai’s road trip comedy The Last One for the Road is ready to charm U.S. audiences in time for spring. It stars The Hand of God breakout Filippo Scotti […]

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One of the most moving dramas to come out of last year’s Toronto International Film Festival was writer-director Sophy Ramvari’s feature debut, Blue Heron. Winner of prizes at TIFF and Locarno, the film follows an eight-year-old girl (newcomer Eylul Güven) […]

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Known for her spellbinding, ambiguous dramas such as La Cienaga, The Headless Woman, and her period piece Zama, Lucrecia Martel returns with her first-ever documentary feature that uncovers shocking multiple murders and a history of colonialism across Latin America. With […]

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Following his eerie 16mm-shot features Bait (2019) and Enys Men (2022), Cornish writer-director Mark Jenkin is back with a haunting new seaside pic that has two fishermen caught in a time warp. Hot off a fall festival run that included […]

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In the aftermath of “Brat Summer” and her three acting roles out of Sundance, it’s safe to say that this is the generation of Charli xcx! The pop star and cinephile will make her fourth acting appearance of the year […]

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After a huge festival run last year that included Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF, cult Canadian actress and filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s Frankensteinian comedy Dead Lover is set to arrive in theaters stateside this spring. Glowicki, known for her roles in Strawberry […]

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After working together on Transit, Undine, and Afire, writer-director Christian Petzold and actress Paula Beer are back again with a new psychological drama in a stunning setting. Miroirs No. 3, named after the classical piano piece, follows Berlin music student […]

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After examining the life of photographer Nan Goldin and her fight against the Sackler Family in her documentary All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras investigates the political turmoil of the 20th Century through the reporting of […]

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After an extensive festival tour that went from Cannes, TIFF, and to NYFF, Lav Diaz’s hypnotic new epic, Magellan, is finally set for a stateside release. It stars Gael Garcia Bernal as the eponymous Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan as he […]

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Following his magnificently bleak period piece Godland, writer-director Hlynur Pálmason offers a reprieve from the overcast skies of human despair with his compassionate new family drama, The Love That Remains. Set in his native Iceland and shot on 35mm film […]

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