From Almodóvar and Farhadi to Joel Coen and Lars von Trier, here are the titles generating the most buzz ahead of the 79th Cannes Film Festival. By Scott Roxborough, Patrick Brzeski First, the reality ...

He whispered in the ears of the powerful, strode the battlefield like a god of war and ultimately embodied both of those extremes in performances of exquisite complexity. Robert Duvall’s death on ...

Whenever I browse through social media or Letterboxd to see what movies young film lovers are discovering, I often see the usual suspects: pictures made by Hitchcock, Coppola, and Scorsese, with a ...

Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get ...

"The Karate Kid" and "The Wrecking Crew," a 2008 documentary about a group of esteemed studio musicians, have joined a revered band of movies – the latest 25 films selected for the National Film ...

The Film Independent Spirit Awards have given three $25,000 cash grants to emerging filmmakers Tony Yang, Rajee Samarasinghe and Tatti Ribeiro at its annual Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominees ...

Three hundred seventeen films are eligible for this year’s Academy Awards, according to a list released on Thursday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Of those, 201 are eligible in ...

Your 2026 movie-going calendar is already filling up, and fast. Over the course of a calendar year, we here at IndieWire watch hundreds of new films. Some of those titles make it to our best of the ...

Every year, the awards gods decree that a certain group of films are the most noteworthy. Many of the same titles end up appearing on every list of critics association awards, guild nominations and ...

The A.V. Club is Paste Magazine‘s source for TV and film coverage. The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood ...

Still from Peter Hujar's Day (2025), dir. by Ira Sachs (image courtesy Janus Films) A day in the life of Peter Hujar, a bungled museum heist, Meredith Monk's 60-year career — these subjects brought to ...