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Hope for Us Yet

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
November 1, 2018
In Happy as Lazzaro’s time-tripping parable of an innocent adrift, Alice Rohrwacher continues to shine a light into the darkness of modern times

Sing Your Life: Marnie at the Met

By Michael Koresky
October 19, 2018
Red alert: the story of trauma famously portrayed in Hitchcock’s film now takes flight as an opera

Excerpt: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan: The Triumph of Tribalism

By J. Hoberman
October 6, 2018
Barbarians at the gate: Conan set forth a big, dumb anthem to destruction that can be heard to this day

The Turning of the Earth

By José Teodoro
September 10, 2018
Alfonso Cuarón’s richly realized Roma surrounds us with the bourgeois Mexico City of his youth, seen through the eyes of another

Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold
September 4, 2018
Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

The Paragon of Animals

By Michael Koresky
September 4, 2018
With their multi-part yarn The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers mosey on back to the Old West to survey the eternal disappointment that is man

Eat Me

By Abby Sun
September 4, 2018
In Caniba, close encounters with a cannibal and his brother lead filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor into new realms of power, fear, and desire

Top of the World

By Paul Schrader
August 20, 2018
A golden crossroads moment in Hollywood comes alive in letters from a gutsy young critic to his brother

Moving Through Time

By Dennis Lim
August 20, 2018
With Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan mesmerizes again with a virtuosic noir trip where experience and dreams become one

Where Are We with Bergman?

By Olivier Assayas
July 13, 2018
A filmmaker reflects on the Swedish master’s legacy in a changed world (and a world he changed)