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    • Joseph Kosinski's Formula 1 Racing Movie With Brad Pitt Lands At Apple With 30-Day Theatrical Release

      Joseph Kosinski's Formula 1 Racing Movie With Brad Pitt Lands At Apple With 30-Day Theatrical Release

      Charles Bramesco
      June 7, 2022 5:42 pm
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    • Vengeance

      ‘Vengeance’ Review: A Mostly Successful Comic Mystery From B.J. Novak [Tribeca]

      Jason Bailey
      June 12, 2022 9:25 pm
    • Breaking The Ice

      ‘Breaking the Ice’ Review: Clara Stern’s Ice Hockey Drama Is A Focused But Minor Character Study [Tribeca]

      Christian Gallichio
      June 12, 2022 11:54 am
    • Good Girl Jane, tribeca

      ‘Good Girl Jane’ Review: Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s Piercing Debut Tracks The Grooming Of A Young Teenage Girl [Tribeca]

      Robert Daniels
      June 12, 2022 11:18 am
    • American Dreamer

      ‘American Dreamer’ Review: Peter Dinklage Can’t Save This Messy Comedic Drama [Tribeca]

      Jason Bailey
      June 12, 2022 10:55 am
    • ‘Aisha’ Review: Letitia Wright Stuns in a Moving Character Drama [Tribeca]

      Jason Bailey
      June 12, 2022 10:44 am
    • Ben Affleck, Batman, Matt reeves

      Matt Reeves Says Ben Affleck’s Unmade Batman Film Was Action-Driven & “James Bond-ian”

      Christopher Marc
      June 11, 2022 1:38 pm
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    • Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll

      Natasha Lyonne: Directing 'Is The Single-Minded Focus Of My Life At This Point'

      Charles Bramesco
      June 10, 2022 3:50 pm
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    • Jurassic World Dominion

      ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’: Colin Trevorrow & Emily Carmichael On Real-World Considerations In Blockbusters, Legacy Cast Members & Much More [Deep Focus Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      June 10, 2022 11:34 am
    • Ms. Marvel

      ‘Ms. Marvel’ Review: An Animated Kamala Khan Lights Up The MCU In Charming Teen YA Series

      Rodrigo Perez
      June 9, 2022 9:43 am
    • Jurassic World dominion

      ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Review: Colin Trevorrow’s Latest Is Unapologetic Nostalgia Executed Skillfully & Shamelessly

      Marshall Shaffer
      June 8, 2022 3:00 pm
    • John Cena, Peacemaker, James Gunn

      James Gunn Challenges His Audience With ‘Peacemaker’ [Interview]

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 7, 2022 10:00 am
    • Tribeca Film Festival 2022

      Tribeca 2022 Festival Preview: 24 Films & TV Series To Watch

      Jamie Rogers
      June 7, 2022 9:53 am
    • ‘Crimes Of The Future’: Viggo Mortensen Initially Wanted A Smaller Part, Léa Seydoux On Cronenberg’s World [Interview]

      Marshall Shaffer
      June 5, 2022 10:32 am
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    • What we do in the shadows season 4

      'What We Do In The Shadows' Season 4 Teaser: FX's Comedic Vampire Series Returns July 12

      Charles Bramesco
      June 6, 2022 2:38 pm
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    • Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll

      Natasha Lyonne: Directing ‘Is The Single-Minded Focus Of My Life At This Point’

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 10, 2022 3:50 pm
    • Menudo: Forever Young

      ‘Menudo: Forever Young’ Trailer Depicts The Rise, Fall, Abuse & Exploitation Of A Seminal Boy Band

      Molly Cottee Tantum
      June 10, 2022 1:48 pm
    • The Janes

      ‘The Janes’ Review: A Bittersweet Look At Abortion Rights Issues & Setbacks

      Marya E. Gates
      June 10, 2022 11:05 am
    • Underground Railroad

      ‘Underground Railroad,’ ‘Bo Burnham: Inside’ & ‘Summer of Soul’ Round Out 2022 Peabody Award Winners

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 9, 2022 2:40 pm
    • Colin Farrell Widows

      Apple Formally Orders New Mystery Series ‘Sugar’ With Colin Farrell

      Ned Booth
      June 9, 2022 1:00 pm
    • Ms. Marvel

      ‘Ms. Marvel’ Review: An Animated Kamala Khan Lights Up The MCU In Charming Teen YA Series

      Rodrigo Perez
      June 9, 2022 9:43 am
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    • Jurassic World Dominion

      ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’: Colin Trevorrow & Emily Carmichael On Real-World Considerations In Blockbusters, Legacy Cast Members & Much More [Deep Focus Podcast]

      Charles Bramesco
      June 10, 2022 11:34 am
      Features, Interviews, News, Podcasts
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    • Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll

      Natasha Lyonne: Directing ‘Is The Single-Minded Focus Of My Life At This Point’

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 10, 2022 3:50 pm
    • Matt Rogers, Fire Island

      Matt Rogers Loves That For You [Interview]

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 8, 2022 5:58 pm
    • Ms Marvel Podcast

      ‘Ms. Marvel’: Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah Talk About What Influenced The Coming-Of-Age Superhero Tale [The Playlist Podcast]

      Charles Barfield
      June 8, 2022 11:13 am
    • Robert Eggers The Northman

      Robert Eggers & Alexander Skarsgård Discuss ‘The Northman,’ The Joy Of Research & More [The Discourse Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      June 7, 2022 2:32 pm
    • John Cena, Peacemaker, James Gunn

      James Gunn Challenges His Audience With ‘Peacemaker’ [Interview]

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 7, 2022 10:00 am
    • Jeremiah zagar hustle

      Director Jeremiah Zagar On ‘Hustle,’ “Stealing” From ‘Raging Bull’ & Working With Adam Sandler [The Playlist Podcast]

      Charles Barfield
      June 6, 2022 12:10 pm
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    • Corner Office, Tribeca

      'Corner Office' Review: Jon Hamm is Wasted in a Stylish But Empty Corporate Satire [Tribeca]

      Charles Bramesco
      June 10, 2022 9:34 am
      Festivals, Reviews
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    • Vengeance

      ‘Vengeance’ Review: A Mostly Successful Comic Mystery From B.J. Novak [Tribeca]

      Jason Bailey
      June 12, 2022 9:25 pm
    • Breaking The Ice

      ‘Breaking the Ice’ Review: Clara Stern’s Ice Hockey Drama Is A Focused But Minor Character Study [Tribeca]

      Christian Gallichio
      June 12, 2022 11:54 am
    • Good Girl Jane, tribeca

      ‘Good Girl Jane’ Review: Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s Piercing Debut Tracks The Grooming Of A Young Teenage Girl [Tribeca]

      Robert Daniels
      June 12, 2022 11:18 am
    • American Dreamer

      ‘American Dreamer’ Review: Peter Dinklage Can’t Save This Messy Comedic Drama [Tribeca]

      Jason Bailey
      June 12, 2022 10:55 am
    • ‘Aisha’ Review: Letitia Wright Stuns in a Moving Character Drama [Tribeca]

      Jason Bailey
      June 12, 2022 10:44 am
    • Andrew Bujalski THERE THERE

      There’s Not Much ‘There There’ in Andrew Bujalski’s Latest [Tribeca Review]

      Jason Bailey
      June 11, 2022 10:22 am
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    • Ms Marvel Podcast

      ‘Ms. Marvel’: Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah Talk About What Influenced The Coming-Of-Age Superhero Tale [The Playlist Podcast]

      Charles Bramesco
      June 8, 2022 11:13 am
      Interviews, News, Podcasts, Television
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    • Jurassic World Dominion

      ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’: Colin Trevorrow & Emily Carmichael On Real-World Considerations In Blockbusters, Legacy Cast Members & Much More [Deep Focus Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      June 10, 2022 11:34 am
    • Robert Eggers The Northman

      Robert Eggers & Alexander Skarsgård Discuss ‘The Northman,’ The Joy Of Research & More [The Discourse Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      June 7, 2022 2:32 pm
    • Jeremiah zagar hustle

      Director Jeremiah Zagar On ‘Hustle,’ “Stealing” From ‘Raging Bull’ & Working With Adam Sandler [The Playlist Podcast]

      Charles Barfield
      June 6, 2022 12:10 pm
    • ‘The Boys’: Jack Quaid

      ‘The Boys’: Jack Quaid Talks Season 3, Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ & ‘Scream’ [Bingeworthy Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      June 3, 2022 11:15 am
    • Will Poulter, The Score

      Will Poulter Talks About His Heist Musical ‘The Score,’ Joining The Marvel Cinematic Universe & More [The Discourse Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      May 31, 2022 1:20 pm
    • summer movie preview playlist podcast

      Summer Movie Preview 2022: ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Thor: Love & Thunder,’ ‘Nope’ & More [The Playlist Podcast]

      Charles Barfield
      May 27, 2022 3:46 pm
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    • Resident Evil

      'Resident Evil' Trailer: Netflix's New Riff On The Zombie Franchise Turns Into A Series On July 14

      Charles Bramesco
      June 6, 2022 1:13 pm
      News, Television, Trailers
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    • Of Medicine and Miracles

      ‘Of Medicine and Miracles’ Clip: Academy Award-Winner Ross Kauffman Follows The Story Of Cancer Pioneers & Survivors [Tribeca Exclusive]

      Jamie Rogers
      June 11, 2022 10:57 am
    • Anonymous Club

      ‘Anonymous Club’ Trailer: Courtney Barnett’s Intimate Doc Journey Comes To America In July

      Molly Cottee Tantum
      June 10, 2022 1:49 pm
    • Menudo: Forever Young

      ‘Menudo: Forever Young’ Trailer Depicts The Rise, Fall, Abuse & Exploitation Of A Seminal Boy Band

      Molly Cottee Tantum
      June 10, 2022 1:48 pm
    • American Pain

      ‘American Pain’ Clip: “We’re The Disneyland Of Pain Clinics” [Tribeca Exclusive]

      Jamie Rogers
      June 10, 2022 10:35 am
    • Stranger Things

      ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Vol. 2 Teaser Suggests You Can’t Stop What’s Coming

      Molly Cottee Tantum
      June 9, 2022 5:24 pm
    • Next Exit

      ‘Next Exit’ Trailer: Mali Elfman’s Latest Asks What Happens When Death Isn’t The End

      Molly Cottee Tantum
      June 9, 2022 3:14 pm
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    • We Are Lady Parts |

      'We Are Lady Parts' & 'The Wonder Years' Latest 2022 Peabody Awards Winners

      Charles Bramesco
      June 8, 2022 2:21 pm
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    • Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll

      Natasha Lyonne: Directing ‘Is The Single-Minded Focus Of My Life At This Point’

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 10, 2022 3:50 pm
    • Stefani Robinson

      Stefani Robinson Does Double Duty On ‘Atlanta’ & ‘What We Do In Shadows’ & Does It Flawlessly [Interview]

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 10, 2022 9:28 am
    • Underground Railroad

      ‘Underground Railroad,’ ‘Bo Burnham: Inside’ & ‘Summer of Soul’ Round Out 2022 Peabody Award Winners

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 9, 2022 2:40 pm
    • Matt Rogers, Fire Island

      Matt Rogers Loves That For You [Interview]

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 8, 2022 5:58 pm
    • Best Picture, Oscars

      Bill Kramer Voted In As New Academy CEO

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 7, 2022 5:24 pm
    • Hacks season 2

      ‘Hacks,’ Sort Of’ & ‘Philly D.A.’ Win 2022 Peabody Awards

      Gregory Ellwood
      June 7, 2022 3:03 pm
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Lynch/Oz

‘Lynch / Oz’ Review: Alexandre O. Philippe Curates A Deep Dive Into David Lynch’s ‘Wizard Of Oz’ Obsession [Tribeca]

Charles Bramesco
June 10, 2022 9:37 am
News, Reviews
“The Wizard of Oz” is the all-movie; in my film school days, professors would use King Vidor’s canon cornerstone as a teachable exemplar for just about everything, from the usage of color to the dream-logic of...
Stars At Noon

‘The Stars At Noon’ Review: Margaret Qualley & Joe Alwyn Sweat It Out In Claire Denis’ Seductive Misfire [Cannes]

Charles Bramesco
May 26, 2022 8:59 am
Features, Festivals, News, Reviews
“The Stars at Noon” finds the French filmmaker Claire Denis shooting in Panama doubling for Nicaragua; directing a cast of Yanks, Brits, and assorted Central Americans; and working from a script switching betw...
elvis baz-luhrmann

‘Elvis’ Review: Baz Luhrmann Turns Raw, Gyrating Machismo Into Charisma That’s Just Loud [Cannes]

Charles Bramesco
May 26, 2022 8:43 am
Features, Festivals, News, Reviews
There’s really no overstating the sociocultural impact of Elvis Aaron Presley, whose music and celebrity cleaved the twentieth century in half as an Ozymandias colossus foretelling the future of fame: merchand...
Funny Pages

‘Funny Pages’ Review: Owen Kline Examines The Limits Of Privilege In Sharp New Comedy [Cannes]

Charles Bramesco
May 24, 2022 11:43 am
News, Reviews
It’s the plight of the plightless: a kid from a comfortable, upper-middle-class background wants to be some manner of artist, except that he’s (and it does seem to be a he more often than not) bereft of the ex...
Crimes Of The Future

‘Crimes Of The Future’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Unfinished Business With The Flesh Is Booming [Cannes]

Charles Bramesco
May 23, 2022 5:33 pm
Features, Festivals, News, Reviews
David Cronenberg has unfinished business with the future, which is tricky, seeing as it already constitutes a significant slice of his past. His new film — titled “Crimes of the Future,” as in committed by rat...
Three Thousand Years Of Longing

‘Three Thousand Years Of Longing’ Review: George Miller Returns With A Sumptuous Banquet Of Storytelling [Cannes]

Charles Bramesco
May 21, 2022 8:16 am
Features, Festivals, News, Reviews
As if unleashing all the pent-up narrative impulses tamped down for the hard-bitten minimalism of “Mad Max: Fury Road,” Australia’s proudest son George Miller returns to Cannes’ out-of-Competition section with...
Luzifer -Franz-Rogowski

‘Luzifer’ Review: Franz Rogowski Stars In Peter Brunner’s Chilling Arthouse Drama

Charles Bramesco
April 22, 2022 10:12 am
News
Around the secluded mountainside cabin in the Austrian Alps where filmmaker Peter Brunner sets his fierce and freakish “Luzifer,” every day is sacred. As Christians so intensely devout that they don’t even see...
The bubble

‘The Bubble’ Review: Judd Apatow’s Pandemic Filmmaking Blockbuster Comedy Is An Epic Disaster

Charles Bramesco
March 31, 2022 9:13 pm
Features, News, Reviews
“For once in my life, I wanted to make a movie without having all the responsibilities.” So moans Jeff, the director on the film-within-a-film in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Beware of a Holy Whore.” The West G...
Flux Gourmet

‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Peter Strickland Delivers Sensory Overload In His Most Bizarre, Possibly Best, Film [Berlin Film Festival]

Charles Bramesco
February 11, 2022 4:00 pm
Features, Festivals, News, Reviews
Just as the Tiktok-ers and Instagrammites of the world had completed the mainstreaming of ASMR, master of the tactile Peter Strickland has returned to restore the unsettling, alien quality to sensation. In “Fl...
jackass forever

‘Jackass Forever’ Review: The Next Generation Shines In The Psychotically Entertaining Sequel

Charles Bramesco
February 3, 2022 10:54 am
News, Reviews
In the same way that the good punk bands generally don’t do reunion tours, something felt off about the "Jackass" gang getting back together as many are hitting the big 5-0. When piss and vinegar are the two a...
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