From The Editors
Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance
Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.
Unnamed Footage 2026: Micro Review Roundup
Due to unexpected technical issues and an equally frustrating amount of time resolving those issues we found ourselves crunched for time to get full coverage of the Unnamed Footage Film Festival. No thanks to these time constraints and other...
HAMLET Review: Thrillingly Cinematic Internal Journey Into Personal Hell
Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, and Joe Alwyn star in director Aneil Karia's modern-day adaptation.
Director in Focus: Steven Soderbergh's Silky Smooth Charms, From BUBBLE to THE CHRISTOPHERS
The director continues to assert his stylish independence with deceptively mainstream films and television series.
Now on Digital: THE BRIDE! Comes Home
Maggie Gyllenhaal's divisive horror-romance stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, and Annette Bening.
THE YETI Review: Chilling Premise Undone by Lukewarm Craft
Brittany Allen and Jim Cummings star in this lackluster old-school creature feature.
THE INVITE Trailer: Invite The Neighbors Over For Dinner, They Said. It'll be Fun, They Said.
Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
Frontières 2026: Frontières Platform in Cannes Announced
Our friends at Frontières have announced the thirteen projects participating in this year's Frontières Platform in Cannes.
MERMAID Review: Curious Mix of Crime Thriller and Theatre of the Absurd
Tyler Cornack's action-comedy-horror stars Johnny Pemberton, Avery Potemri, Kevin Nealon, Kirk Fox, Julia Larson, Devyn McDowell, Tom Arnold with Robert Patrick and Kevin Dunn.
THE BEARDED GIRL: Watch The Trailer Premiere For Jody Wilson's Drama Fantasy
The story of a bearded girl who is tired of being a freak.
BUFFET INFINITY: Arrives in Cinemas April 24th, Watch The Trailer, Now!
Echoing the Canadian comedy classic SCTV, crosscutting between original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County.
FIND YOUR FRIENDS: Shudder Acquires Izabel Pakzad's Feature Debut Thriller
Amber and her friends visit Joshua Tree for a fun girls' trip but face hostility from locals. As tensions escalate and Amber's dark past surfaces, their rebellion ignites - turning their desert getaway into a jaw-dropping game of revenge.
Echoes: Why Are AI-Driven Films Being Proposed as Any Kind of Solution in Pakistan?
Facing a lack of funding and infrastructure, why has the Pakistani entertainment industry turned to AI?
THE LAND OF SOMETIMES Review: Careful What You Wish For
Ewan McGregor, Alisha Weir, Andrei Shen, Asa Butterfield, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mel Brooks star in the British animated musical adventure.
New Directors/New Films 2026 Preview: STRANGE RIVER, TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, and More
Presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, the 55th edition of New Directors/New Films takes place from April 8 through April 19, 2026, with filmmakers scheduled to attend in person. With a focus on innovative...
Opening This Week: FACES OF DEATH Goes Digital, THE CHRISTOPHERS Confronts Art, CHAO Gets Romantic
Plus: 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'
STAR WARS: MAUL - SHADOW LORD Review: The Galaxy's Most Dangerous Survivor Returns
After the Clone Wars, Maul plots to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.
Diagonale 2026 Review: PORTRAIT OF NOWNESS Assembles a Fragmented Mosaic
Co-created by Juri Rechinsky and Mario Hainzl, the film constructs a first-person docu-experiment in which body-camera footage across multiple continents reframes notions of everyday life through contrasting conditions of normalcy.
Diagonale 2026 Review: THE STORIES Turns Familiar Tragicomic Family Saga Tropes into Finetuned Crowd-pleaser
Abu Bakr Shawky's film unfolds as a multi-generational family saga that situates an intimate love story within the shifting social and political landscape of Egypt from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Diagonale 2026 Review: WAX & GOLD Probes Memory and Myth of Ethiopia's Beloved Autocrat
Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann uses the spatial and historical layers of the Hilton Addis Ababa to examine how the legacy of Haile Selassie is constructed, negotiated and contested through personal memory, archival material and competing narratives.
