Features

Never the Same River Twice

By Matías Piñeiro

August 4, 2025

Water colors: the Argentine filmmaker pens and paints a tribute to Hong Sangsoo’s latest “river film," By the Stream

If You Build It

By Mark Asch

July 28, 2025

Seat yourself: three independent cinemas opening in New York City are betting that audiences still prefer collective experiences of art and urban space

From Cell to Screenplay: Finding My Voice Behind Bars

By Kwaneta Harris

July 7, 2025

New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison

Structural Integrity

By Swagato Chakravorty

July 7, 2025

Circuit cities: the Mumbai-based collaborative art studio CAMP experiments with media technology in playful and political ways

Animal Magnetism

By Erika Balsom

June 30, 2025

Bull in the heather: Albert Serra‘s challenging and visceral portrait of a matador is one of the year’s best films

Modern Love

By Guy Lodge

June 30, 2025

Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy

Country Living

By Olivia Crough

June 23, 2025

This whole world: the films of Pierre Creton model a communal life removed from urban capitalism, nationalism, and traditional family structures

Kampung Film Festival 2025: Oceanic Feeling

By Sasha Han

June 16, 2025

Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local audience

Cannes 2025: Lamming It

By Devika Girish

June 9, 2025

End of the road: new films by Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Julia Ducournau, and Sergei Loznitsa explore the politics of time

Impossible Reality

By Tom Gunning

May 30, 2025

Get a grip: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning celebrates the tenacity and power of the human body struggling against technology