One of the biggest risk-taking directors of all time, John Boorman, signed on to direct what was the highly anticipated second chapter of “The Exorcist” series, Exorcist II: The Heretic. What people didn’t anticipate would be the critical disaster that […]

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Following his winning 2018 narrative debut Diane, film critic & programmer-turned-director Kent Jones returns with a New York tale that pays tribute to a bygone artistic generation. Late Fame stars Willem Dafoe, giving one of his best performances, as former […]

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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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It’s not so often we get to witness a new film from Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi, but when we do, it’s something truly unique to behold. Years after resurfacing with her Oscar-nominated drama On Body and Soul, she’s back with […]

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Known for his jaw-dropping and often steamy thrillers, French auteur François Ozon is back with an ambitious adaptation of a literary masterpiece. The Stranger, adapted by Ozon from Albert Camus’ 1942 novella, received plenty of acclaim following its world premiere […]

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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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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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Having premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it picked up the prestigious Golden Lion for Best Film, Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother will certainly be a different kind of family drama to come out this holiday season. A […]

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One of the most perplexing, divisive, yet bold and original films of the last year was Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. The legendary director, who had tried getting the film made for 30 years, funded the $125 million to make it […]

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Following the dysfunctional family comedy The Meyerowitz Stories, the Oscar-winning Marriage Story, and the more ambitious White Noise, Noah Baumbach is reteaming with Netflix once again for a more introspective comedy. Jay Kelly stars George Clooney as the titular character, […]

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