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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on June 5.

How do you tell when you stop being good people pretending to be bad and realize you’re just bad people who can’t even trick themselves into thinking they’re anything but? Caroline (Samara Weaving) asks this aloud earlier than you might expec...


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Maybe it’s harder than it looks to present the end of the world calmly, especially in only 93 minutes. That’s one of the major achievements of the new, relatively lo-fi anime film Jinsei. Over a hundred years—all through the prism of pop music and Japanese identity—one quickly learns how much millennial- and zoomer-doom mindset is just as present in the land of the ...


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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Tribeca coverage. The film opens in theaters on June 5.

As humanity continues mining Earth’s resources with wanton abandon, the concerns of those with the most influence have been towards the skies––the space dreams of inhabiting another planet once we’ve depleted all this one has to offer. But...


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New York is hardly lacking for decent programming of Japanese cinema. Even by such standards, the city’s preeminent destination is without question. Now in its 19th edition, Japan Society’s Japan Cuts has announced a 2026 lineup ch...


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Following its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival last fall, Lauren Caster’s debut feature Rhythm Is a Dancer will now be arriving in theaters beginning July 10 from the Utopia imprint Circle Collective. Directed, written, produced, and starring Caster, the drama draws on her real-life story of being the daughter of a lesbian mom and sperm-donor dad. Ahead of...


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