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‘Paper Tiger’ Review: Adam Driver Gives a Career-Best Performance in James Gray’s Devastating Tragedy
Cannes: Like all of James Gray's best films, "Paper Tiger" is both sweepingly mythic and hauntingly personal all at once.
Asghar Farhadi Lives in Iran, but Won’t Make Movies There
Back in Cannes with Kieślowski-inspired "Parallel Tales," starring Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel, the two-time ...
How Aleshea Harris Combined Influences from Across History to Create Her Tragic, Absurd Debut ‘Is God Is’
The playwright-turned-filmmaker explains how studying "O Brother, Where Art Thou" shaped her vision of classical trag...
‘The Diary of a Chambermaid’ Review: Radu Jude Delivers a Surprisingly Touching Meta-Adaptation
Cannes: The Romanian satirist’s latest loosely adapts Octave Mirbeau’s novel into a sharp-witted mother-daughter epistolary.
‘Atonement’ Review: Emotionally Powerful Anti-War Film Shows That Bullets Fire Both Ways
Cannes: Reed Van Dyk's intimate, psychologically astute, and true portrait of the human cost of U.S. imperial violenc...
‘Sheep in the Box’ Review: A Married Couple Adopt a Robot Copy of Their Dead Son in Hirokazu Koreeda’s Emotionally Stilted Riff on ‘A.I.’
Koreeda begs us not to delegate our imaginations to AI in a winsome grief drama that lacks feeling.
‘La Libertad Doble’ Review: It’s ‘Slow Cinema: The Return’ in Lisandro Alonso’s Latest
Cannes: Twenty-five years after his debut feature, the Argentinian director offers an unexpected and satisfying continuation.
‘Forever Your Maternal Animal’ Review: Three Costa Rican Women Are Adrift in Valentina Maurel’s Ambiguously Rousing Family Drama
Cannes: In the French-Costa Rican director’s stirring follow-up to “I Have Electric Dreams,” an already fractured fam...
Crash Out with ‘Maximum Overdrive’: Director Stephen King’s One and Only Feature Film
This gruesome sci-fi thriller from 1986 sees the legendary horror author go ham on a rural truck stop.
‘Outlander’ Stars Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan Bid an Emotional Farewell to the Series — and React to the Finale
Spoilers: After 12 years, 101 episodes, and eight seasons, stars Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan unpack an emotional ...
‘Gentle Monster’ Review: Léa Seydoux Learns the Truth About Her Husband in Marie Kreutzer’s Tough Study of Child Sex Abuse
Cannes: A tough and unflinching social drama about the predators among us — and how difficult it can be to see them f...
‘The Blow’ Review: This Achingly Poignant Familial Drama Speaks a Tactile Visual Language
Cannes: First-time director Julien Gaspar-Oliveri's feature about the uneasy reconnection of a father and son lands w...
SAG-AFTRA’s AI Deal Shows that Hollywood — for Now — Still Values Human Actors
The tentative agreement reached between the guild and the studios closes some key loopholes in AI protections for lik...
For ‘Survivor’ Legends Who Keep Coming Back, Outplaying and Outlasting Is a ‘Religious Experience’
In the lead-up to the Season 50 finale, "Survivor" regulars Ozzy Lusth, Dee Valladares, and Stephenie LaGrossa Kendri...
‘John Lennon: The Last Interview’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Beatles Doc Struggles Against Irrelevance (Even Without the Generative AI)
Cannes: The appallingly ugly AI-generated imagery only highlights the project’s flimsy reason to exist.
Harvey Weinstein Rape Trial Ends in a Mistrial with Hung Jury
The disgraced producer has now been on trial three times for a rape accusation from an aspiring actress in 2013.
Who Will Win the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or?
Cannes: We rank the contenders out of the 2026 edition so far, with at least one film destined to take home a prize f...
‘Heathers’ Live-Read Event Targets All-Star Cast, Including Taylour Paige and Adam DiMarco
Exclusive: Film Independent’s latest live read is coming to New York City with director Meredith Alloway and a predic...
‘All of a Sudden’ Review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Long and Thoughtful Plea for a More Hopeful Future
Cannes: A terminal play director and an overworked eldercare provider stroll through Paris and try to solve capitalis...
Laika Needs ‘Wildwood’ to Be About More Than the Stop-Motion Craft That Went Into It: ‘Prestige Alone Isn’t Enough’
The Portland-based animation studio's first movie in seven years is aggressively working to position itself as a thea...