It’s been nearly a decade since Gore Verbinski’s last feature film A Cure for Wellness hit theaters, but the director best known for creating the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise hasn’t been ...

The promo features Heidbreder donning a movie usher’s red vest, black sunglasses and a microphone headset as he implores commuters in the 6th Ave subway tunnel to check out the BAM series, which is ...

As both a resident of Minneapolis and a film and TV critic, it’s been surreal to see my home city become, over the past few weeks, the kind of place you might see in an especially on-the-nose ...

Scott Meslow, a Minneapolis native and film/TV critic, describes civilian footage of anti-ICE efforts as the “inverse of a ...

At the final Park City edition of Sundance last week, my 14th consecutive one, I contemplated this line from Butch Cassidy ...

Tyler Coates examins why the best documentary has become the toughest Oscar category to predict in recent years.

Brief descriptions of new films that premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival by Sundance veteran filmmaker David Leitner.

When I first discovered the works of Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch—academic anthropologists who opted to make films rather than books about their research subjects—my appreciation of ...

With the 63rd edition of the New York Film Festival kicking off tomorrow (Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt is the Opening Night Film), we at Filmmaker offer a list of 20 recommendations, the majority ...

For a film about the end of the world, Mare’s Nest is hardly lugubrious. Then again, you could say the same about Ben Rivers’s entire oeuvre. Few directors who’ve kicked off their careers after the ...

Ari Aster previously used the horror genre as a lens to examine dysfunctional family dynamics in Hereditary and break-up messiness in Midsommar. He then pivoted to the manic surrealism of Beau is ...

Back in 2022, a scrappy feat of independent filmmaking came across my radar. Written and directed by Florida native Justin Zuckerman, Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater is a Mini-DV shot journey of a ...