Across THE CURRENTS, Milagros Mumenthaler’s attention to metaphor and subjectivity also invites comparison to Virginia Woolf’s formalist yet compassionate illumination of characters’ inner landscapes. #73SSIFF

Released on this day 25 years ago, #LightYears was the first of several comebacks in Kylie Minogue's career. See where it lands on our ranking of the singer's 16 studio albums! slantmagazine.com/music/every-kylie-minogue-album-ranked/

Cardi B's 'Am I the Drama?' is charming both because of and in spite of its rowdy pugnacity. Read our review.

The road to SILENT HILL F’s unnerving vision of hell is paved with tedious mechanics. Read @justinofclark.bsky.social's review.

“Sexy, scary…an anxious and unabashed gay drama about social repression and its impacts” raves @slantmagazine.com PLAINCLOTHES is now playing!

This year marked the 10th anniversary of Sufjan Stevens's nakedly autobiographical 'Carrie & Lowell.' Revisit our review.

Throughout BLACK PHONE 2, Scott Derrickson collapses dreams, reality, past, and present sidelong into a singular cinematic haunted space. Read @roccotthompson.bsky.social's #FantasticFest review.

PRIMATE is high-strung in its eagerness to get down to the carnage, so much so that the human story feels almost totally inconsequential. Read @roccotthompson.bsky.social's #FantasticFest review.

Sarah McLachlan's #BetterBroken leans further into easy listening, but it's also a reminder that the singer is one of pop's foremost poets. Read our review.

Gints Zilbalodis’s critical and commercial darling FLOW gets instantly enshrined in the Criterion Collection with a flawless transfer and a bevy of bonus features. Available next week on 4K UHD Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/swtt48x6

The Criterion Collection rolls out the red carpet for THE FRENCH DISPATCH, Wes Anderson’s ode to France, French cinema, and The New Yorker. Available on 4K UHD Blu-ray on September 30. tinyurl.com/596fatbh

HIM leaves you wishing that the aspirational way the sport is presented in real life had been read for filth. Read @justinofclark.bsky.social's review.

Released on this day 25 years ago, Madonna's 'Music' saw the singer expressing her fears and joys with a confidence we hadn't heard in nearly a decade. Revisit our review.

Read our interview with David Osit about his documentary PREDATORS, the popularity of To Catch a Predator, what Chris Hansen thinks about the film, and more.

Jacques Audiard's THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED gets a long-overdue release on Region 1 Blu-ray next week from the Criterion Collection. tinyurl.com/yc428fv4

David Osit’s trenchant PREDATORS moves beyond recounting the controversial To Catch a Predator’s history. See the documentary starting this Friday @filmforumnyc.bsky.social.

A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY cloyingly asks us to embrace the sincerity of its impersonal romance.

In its sophomore year, FX's 'English Teacher' continues to thrive in a comfortable groove. Read our review!

Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark comedy ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER turns overreaching into an art form. Read Keith Uhlich's review.

Mark Jenkin’s ROSE OF NEVADA plunges us into a world that feels simultaneously naturalistic and otherworldly. Read Mark Hanson's #TIFF50 review.

The Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s ART makes it hard to imagine its characters loving any version of each other.

Jacques Audiard’s early-aughts breakthrough READ MY LIPS, available next week on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray, still pulsates with passion and urgency. tinyurl.com/5n8eh7zx

Across MY SUNSHINE, Okuyama Hiroshi spins poetry from seemingly inconsequential moments. Read Charles Lyons-Burt's review. tinyurl.com/2s36243j

Read our interview with Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey about PLAINCLOTHES, its richly fragmentary style, its frank sex scenes, and more. tinyurl.com/5crn2hct

In the harsh light of 2025, PLAINCLOTHES’s snapshot of its 1997 setting doesn’t look like yesterday. Read @roccotthompson.bsky.social's review. tinyurl.com/37dv3x8y

R.I.P. Robert Redford (1936-2025)

Olivier Assayas’s knack for fostering insight through irony is nowhere to be found in THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN. Read Alexander Mooney's #TIFF50 review. shorturl.at/Abv7g

THIS IS SPINAL TAP, available tomorrow on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray, laid the groundwork for the modern improv comedy with its laser-precise skewering of the heyday of ’80s heavy metal and the vagaries of making it as a touring act. Read @jakecole.bsky.social's review. tinyurl.com/36npfv56

Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s SWIPED, a biopic about Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, can’t escape the shadow of The Social Network. tinyurl.com/42b5rx64

Mike Figgis’s MEGADOC is an anthem of aspiration and struggle that leaves no doubt about Francis Ford Coppola’s beliefs around the making of Megalopolis. In select theaters Friday. tinyurl.com/2rjtau8w

Piero Messina’s ANOTHER END tenaciously and hauntingly casts a net woven of implications over what’s come before. In theaters and on VOD this Friday. Read Diego Semerene's review. tinyurl.com/3w77v9va

Lizzie Borden’s ultra-low-budget BORN IN FLAMES is one of the most exciting films of 1980s, and Criterion honors it with a solid transfer and substantial extras. Available tomorrow. tinyurl.com/3rnrrv3c

HIGH AND LOW comes to native 4K, courtesy of the Criterion Collection, with a transfer that captures the film’s formal mastery in sparkling detail. Read @jakecole.bsky.social on Kurosawa's classic. tinyurl.com/2p9rpnz5

Mona Fastvold’s protean fable is tremulous, tricky, and intrepid, much like its pious protagonist. Read Alexander Mooney's #TIFF50 review. tinyurl.com/y7bzn4vx

HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG is a work of vast, idiosyncratic personality. Read @nivmsultan.bsky.social's review.

Despite the retro vérité aesthetic that Benny Safdie employs to give Mark Kerr’s story a stylish new coat of paint, all that THE SMASHING MACHINE ultimately does is whip up a feeling of déjà vu. Read Mark Hanson's #TIFF50 review.

The past comes off in Mascha Schilinski’s SOUND OF FALLING as an onerous, if unseen, weight on the present. Read Pat Brown's #TIFF50 review.

Scarlett Johansson’s direction keeps things simple and intimate across ELEANOR THE GREAT in a way that Tory Kamen’s overambitious screenplay doesn’t. Read @justinofclark.bsky.social's #TIFF50 review.

Read our interview with Hal Hartley about his new film WHERE TO LAND, the film's origins, fundraising, and drawing from his own life.

Oliver Hermanus's THE HISTORY OF SOUND movingly conjures the feeling of music’s creation of a suspended present tense. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

The careful balance of “stupid and clever” that solidified the legend of This Is Spinal Tap is less steady in its much-belated sequel, SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES. Read @jakecole.bsky.social's review.

The real Jeffrey Manchester may in fact have been polite, but Derek Cianfrance’s ROOFMAN doesn’t convince you that it needed to be as well. Read Mark Hanson's #TIFF50 review.

From Madonna rolling around in a wedding dress in 1984 to Doja Cat slithering off a couch onto the floor at this year's show, we've ranked our 20 favorite MTV VMA performances.

RENTAL FAMILY is a grueling schlep toward its climactic stretch, in which the film ties off every loose end and stoops to mawkish feel-goodery of the highest order. Read Alexander Mooney's #TIFF50 review.

With Hal Hartley’s previous film closing out a trilogy begun in 1997, and the filmmaker now at age 65, WHERE TO LAND feels very much like his first late-career work. Read Seth Katz's review.

Yeon Sang-ho’s THE UGLY plays a long game with audiences that frustrates far more than it illuminates. Read @midfalutin.bsky.social's #TIFF50 review.

Francis Lawrence ferociously stages Stephen King’s novella THE LONG WALK as a passion play about class solidarity. Read @justinofclark.bsky.social's review.

Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN (#TIFF50) resonates most profoundly on a mythic, archetypal level. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

Opening in NY this Friday, Neo Sora’s HAPPYWEND wobbles between sober social commentary and outright satire. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

Dag Johan Haugerud's DREAMS gracefully envelops us in the joys and confusion of feverish passion with no outlet. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.