The Smashing Machine is a movie with a lot of heart and soul. It’s also a movie with great love for its subjects: the people involved and, for better and worse, the industry they helped build. It's in ...

Billy Crudup is one of our truly great actors. Early into Jay Kelly, written by Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer and directed by Baumbach, Crudup appears for a one-scene turn that jump-starts the ...

The films of Mark Jenkin ooze a hypnotic, seasick sensibility; to watch them is to be lulled by their restless jumps through time and space, their ability to convert his home turf of Cornwall into a ...

With the summer movie season now quietly winding down, fall is upon us. As we do each year, after highlighting the best films ...

After highlighting the 50 must-see films confirmed to be arriving in theaters this fall, we turn our attention to the ...

After premiering her documentary feature GES-2 at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, Nastia Korkia returns to the festival ...

There is a distinct '70s sheen to the Criterion Channel's September lineup: a decades-spanning Robert Altman retrospective with everything from Nashville and The Long Goodbye to That Cold Day in the ...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA series on New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina includes Déjà Vu on 35mm; the Michael Caine ...

Paweł Pawlikowski's Joaquin Phoenix- and Rooney Mara-led The Island was, as cinematographer Łukasz Żal told us, "just two-and-a-half weeks before shooting" when the 2023 strikes shut down production.

The line “you did the best you could” is spoken at a crucial moment in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. It’s a platitude often used as a band-aid to cover up all manner of sins. But here, in ...

Jim Jarmusch is back with Father Mother Sister Brother, which finds him returning to the episodic structure of Night on Earth and Coffee and Cigarettes, tracing three familial stories starring Cate ...

Casting news rarely (never?) resounds like word of Daniel Day-Lewis' return. Eight years since an ostensible retirement with ...