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TV/Streaming
It Gets Harder Before It Gets Better: Netflix’s “North of North” Returns For a Warm Second Season
Festivals & Awards
Highlights of the 2026 London Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2026: Saints, A Common Story, The Riverbank
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2026: At Night, Foreign Travel, Joy of Joys
Interviews
The Possibility of Forgiveness: Reed Van Dyk, Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass, and Kenneth Branagh on “Atonement”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2026: The Spiral, Half, Anchors Aweigh
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2026: Trash Mountain, Babies, Everybody Wants to F*ck Me
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2026: In the Heart of the South, Idda, Magazine
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2026: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See This Year
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2026: Alpha Gang, The Liberation, The Idiots
Festivals & Awards
Locarno 2026: I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming, Hearing, Bruton
Festivals & Awards
Locarno 2026: Objet A, Tear Gas, Fire Flower (Hanabi)
TV/Streaming
USA Network’s “Anna Pigeon” Is a Satisfying TV Throwback
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2026: Wrap-up and Awards
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2026: Lover, Not a Fighter, If Pigeons Turned to Gold, Only Beautiful Things to Look At
Features
Retreating From The Elephant: The Perpetually Impending Demise of Indie Cinema
Festivals & Awards
60th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Announces Official Selection and Juries
TV/Streaming
“For All Mankind” Spinoff “Star City” is One Small Soviet Step Backward
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Nagi Notes, Ashes
Festivals & Awards
Notes from the Red Carpet of the 2026 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2026: Chili Finger, Kill Me, Family Movie
Festivals & Awards
At This Year’s Oscars, The Show Must Go On
The Unloved
The Unloved, Part 147: The House Bunny & Observe and Report
Women Writers Week
Women Writers Week 2026: Table of Contents
Women Writers Week
Milestones of 1956: Looking Back at Hollywood 70 Years Ago
Women Writers Week
I’ve Started Seeing Somebody: The Monstrous-Masculine in Larry Fessenden’s “Habit”
Festivals & Awards
Berlinale 2026: A Politicized Festival with Great Political Cinema
TV/Streaming
“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” Maintains Momentum in Confident Second Season
Festivals & Awards
Remembering the Forgotten Movies of the 2026 Oscar Season
DVD/Blu-Ray
