Cinema Curator

The exhaustively extended awards season finally being over isn’t the only reason to celebrate this month. Led by my current frontrunner for the best film of 2026, there’s plenty of new releases to look forward to, also including a bold formal experiment, a controversial festival premiere, a journey into space, and much more. 10. undertone […]

Few subjects constitute a better benchmark than Werner Herzog, who quite literally needs no introduction and to whom I will, accordingly, not grant such. He is presenting his new film, Ghost Elephants, a documentary concerning South African naturalist Steve Boyse and his quest for a near-mythical species of elephant. (Our own appreciative review, from the […]

Following up the wonderful Happy as Lazzaro and La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher has assembled quite the ensemble for her next feature. Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, and La Chimera star Josh O’Connor will lead the Italian director’s next film Three Incestuous Sisters. Based on The Time Traveler’s Wife author Audrey Niffenegger’s 2005 novel, the […]

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMThe World of Black Film features Malcolm X, Daughters of the Dust, Set It Off, Black Orpheus, and more. Film ForumSatyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest begins playing in a new restoration; Snow White shows on Sunday. Film at Lincoln CenterA Raymond Depardon retrospective continues. Museum of […]

“Between 1969 and 1977, Elvis played 1,100 shows, sometimes 3 times a day.” The postscript of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert—the extravagant, divisive Australian once-wunderkind’s first documentary, and hopefully not his last—says something essential about the late Elvis we witness afresh with new eyes and ears: the rock n’ roll legend gave everything […]

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we celebrate one of our great Welshmen: Anthony Hopkins! Our B-Sides include When Eight Bells Toll, Juggernaut, Spotswood, and Instinct. Our guest is the great Brian […]

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Arco (Ugo Bienvenu) With his debut feature, Arco, Ugo Bienvenu puts a unique, thought-provoking twist on the solarpunk genre. He gives us a glimpse of the sort of sustainable utopia […]

Following one of 2022’s great breakthroughs, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, we’ve been curious to see what Daniel Goldhaber would direct next. He quickly embarked on a remake of the 1978 cult horror film Faces of Death. While it wrapped three years, with Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and […]

After two theatrical releases last year, the ever-prolific Steven Soderbergh is back this spring with The Christophers, which brings together Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, James Corden, and Jessica Gunning. Following its premiere at TIFF last fall, NEON has picked up the dramedy for an April 10 release and now the first trailer has arrived. Here’s […]

Looking for what to see in theaters? Our feature, updated weekly, highlights our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restorations receiving a proper theatrical run. While we already provide extensive monthly new-release recommendations and weekly streaming recommendations, as distributors’ roll-outs can vary, this is a one-stop list to share the […]

Her films’ texture and intimacy can be so intense as to make one forget Sofia Coppola’s never delved into the documentary field. (Unless Bill Murray really spends his time singing at Bemelmans, in which case I stand corrected.) This perhaps lends logic to Marc by Sofia, her portrait of fashion mogul Marc Jacobs that premiered […]

Enjoying much-deserved appreciation for his formally bold return to the 28 Days Later franchise, Danny Boyle also had another reason to celebrate last year: the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs, his Aaron Sorkin collaboration that found a unique structural conceit to explore three key periods in the complicated life of the late tech genius. In […]