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New York Times
Featured Films
The finest of Italian and world cinema
Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice Review A Chaotic Genre Mashup That Struggles to Find Its Voice
Margo’s Got Money Troubles Review A Glossy Drama That Avoids Its Own Reality
Why “Project Hail Mary” Feels Like the Last Optimistic Sci-Fi Blockbuster
The Housemaid: Proper Pulp Fiction That Doesn’t Pretend to Be Anything More
Why The Office still works as one of the most rewatched shows in modern television
Agora: The Gods We Choose
The Night of the 12th
Cam (2018): Remove the Protection from My Copy
The Bride Was Announced as Horror but Built as Something Else
Frankenstein Was Taken Seriously but Never Fully Believed
Prisoners: A High-Quality Adaptation of a Raw Script
Spoorloos: One director, one film - two completely different versions.
Bugonia: A Tragicomedy on the Limits of Madness
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Reviews, news and interviews from the world of cinema
Mr Benn movie in development as Kirk Jones brings the classic British character to the big screen
For a character that only appeared in 13 short episodes, Mr Benn has had an unusually long cultural life.First broadcast on the BBC in the early 1970s, the seri...
Sofia Laurent 
Extraction 3 confirmed with Chris Hemsworth return and summer production start
Production on the third installment of the Extraction franchise is set to begin this summer, with Chris Hemsworth returning as Tyler Rake, the Australian black-...
Sofia Laurent 
Ryan Gosling and the Daniels’ next film — a project the industry is already watching
Some films arrive with marketing campaigns.Others arrive with silence — and that silence says more than any announcement.The upcoming project from Daniel Kwan a...
Jason Blake 
Scream 8 moves forward as Poker Face writers Lilla and Nora Zuckerman join the franchise’s next chapter
The Scream franchise is not slowing down. If anything, it is recalibrating.Following the commercial and cultural momentum of Scream 7, development is now offici...
Jason Blake 
Horror is no longer about fear and slasher films prove it
The assumption that audiences are tired of horror — particularly long-running slasher franchises — sounds convincing on paper. Sequels multiply, familiar masks ...
Sofia Laurent 
Jon Favreau Brings The Mandalorian and Grogu to the Big Screen for Disney’s Next Star Wars Film
For the first time in several years, Star Wars is preparing to return to cinemas with a project that does not start from scratch, but from something already pro...
Jason Blake 
Weapons prequel expands as Zach Shields joins Zach Cregger to develop Gladys origin story
The expanding universe of Weapons is moving forward with a new creative partnership that signals both ambition and strategic continuity. Filmmaker Zach Cregger ...
Jason Blake 
European Cinema Is Reclaiming What Hollywood Left Behind
Hollywood still dominates scale. It still controls distribution, visibility, and the global rhythm of releases. But scale is no longer the same as cultural cent...
Elena Varga 
It’s Fake Americana Is Formulaic and Degrading
But Spettacolo shows redemption through creativity.Afavorite David Mamet line obliterates the “sure-fire” entertainment offered by the new film adaptation of St...
Luca Moretti Spotlight
Mr Benn movie in development as Kirk Jones brings the classic British character to the big screen
For a character that only appeared in 13 short episodes, Mr Benn has had an unusually long cultural life.First broadcast on the BBC in the early 1970s, the seri...
Extraction 3 confirmed with Chris Hemsworth return and summer production start
Production on the third installment of the Extraction franchise is set to begin this summer, with Chris Hemsworth returning as Tyler Rake, the Australian black-...
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