Telluride is not on my annual festival calendar—too distant, too costly—and I’m at Toronto rarely, only with a film. So as a ...

Kicking and Screaming (1995), writer-director Noah Baumbach, having crafted a notable career both in Hollywood and outside of ...

By conventional measures, the 2020s have not been very good for the movies. At mid-decade, there’s the nagging sense that the ...

Released 30 years ago, Michael Mann’s Heat is an almost-three-hour-long odyssey through Los Angeles and the minds of two ...

In Netflix’s A House of Dynamite, the United States’ government and military chain of commands scramble to respond as a ...

The phrase “word-of-mouth indie theatrical hit” sounds as outdated in 2024 as “coming soon to LaserDisc.” And yet, the slapstick fur-trapping adventure comedy Hundreds of Beavers has graduated from ...

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things required a full calendar year of production in Atlanta, a marathon of 240 ...

Almost no film has devastated me as much as Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab. In an age of ...

The following essay about Amos Poe appears in Filmmaker’s Winter, 2026 print edition in a section, Reflections, that looks ...

The 15th edition of U.S. in Progress—an industry market cum post-production prize competition held during the Polish-based ...

Toward the end of my interview with Gregg Araki, I remind him of his scene from Michael Almereyda and Amy Hobby’s 1995 ...

After I put my kid to sleep, I found myself standing by the window, looking out over the valley of apartment buildings. The ...