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Jane Schoenbrun Says A24 Passed on ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’: “I Want to Destroy” the Systems That Make Movies

Schoenbrun struggled to get ‘Camp Miasma’ made after A24 passed on the project. MUBI eventually came aboard, financing the film with a $10 million budget.

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‘One Night Only’ Makes Sex Boring — Brutal Reviews Greet the ‘Sex Purge’ Rom-Com as Callum Turner’s Bond Hopes Takes a Hit

“One Night Only” is essentially a rom-com version of “The Purge,” where premarital sex is banned except for one night a year. Yet it spends so much time justifying its concept that it forgets the sex.

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NYFF 2026 Main Slate Announced! Chris Rock’s ‘Misty Green’ Surprises! ‘Fjord’ and ‘La Bola Negra’ Snubbed!

Overall, the Main Slate selection will have tons of Cannes stalwarts, with films from Hamaguchi, Almodóvar, Grisebach, Marre, Wollner, Pawlikowski, Sachs, Zvyagintsev, and Harari.

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Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ is 4 Hours, Will Have Intermission — Hits Theaters in October

The most anticipated doc of the fall festival season has got to be Alex Gibney’s “Musk,” which is dated for theatrical release on October 16, 2026.

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Eli Roth Admits ‘Ice Cream Man’ Used AI After Previously Saying It Didn’t: “I Misspoke”

The film arrives unrated, set to screen in 2,000+ theaters this weekend, but is already plagued by disastrous early reviews, amounting to a 29% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

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3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
August 19, 2019

This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

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‘Brand New Day’ Hits $1 Billion in Just Six Days; Record-Setting $47M Monday

August 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has already reached billion-dollar club . The Marvel sequel has surpassed $1 billion worldwide in just six days, making it the second-fastest movie ever to reach the milestone. Only “Avengers: Endgame” got there faster, with the 2019 blockbuster pulling in a staggering $1.2 billion during its three-day opening weekend.

Domestically, “Brand New Day” has now grossed $407M, becoming the fastest film ever to cross $400M at the U.S. box office, doing so in just four days. The film is also rewriting the record books with the biggest Monday in domestic box office history — a remarkable hold for a superhero movie that clearly isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

And that Monday was a monster. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” reportedly pulled in a record-breaking $47M on Monday, further cementing its extraordinary run and putting it firmly on track for an enormous theatrical haul. At this point, the question isn’t whether the latest Spider-Man can cross $1 billion — it’s just how high this thing can go. I’m betting $2 billion could happen.

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‘The Odyssey’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Epic Is a Flawed but Astonishing Spectacle — Rave Reviews Confirm Best Picture Frontrunner

There is something undeniably powerful about a film that swings this hard, that embraces myth, spectacle, and the strange dream logic of ancient storytelling.

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Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Social Reckoning’ Gets Reshoots, Won’t Premiere at Venice Film Festival

About a month ago, Variety published a piece saying that “The Social Reckoning” was being submitted to the Venice Film Festival. I can confirm now that will definitely not be happening.

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Joel Coen’s ‘Jack of Spades’ Delayed to 2027

The film stars Josh O’Connor, Lesley Manville, Frances McDormand, and Damien Lewis, but no plot details have been revealed. All we know is that it’s a “gothic mystery” set in 1880s Scotland.

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Christopher Nolan’s Place in Cinema History: Genius, Overrated, or Something In Between?

Nolan has changed what a modern blockbuster can be, and that alone is a significant legacy. The bigger question is whether he has truly transformed cinema itself, or simply reinvented the blockbuster.

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Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Tops the Best Films of the 1930s, According to 100+ Critics

We’ve gone through the decades. The ‘40s ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘2000s, and ‘2010s. — all revisited, argued over. Now, here are the results for the best films of the 1930s.

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Critics Poll: ‘Citizen Kane' Named Best Film of the 1940s

The results are in, and according to critics, this decade filled with cinematic riches did not have a better film than Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.” Nobody should be surprised by this result. “Citizen Kane” changed cinema forever.

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Critics Poll: ‘Vertigo’ Named Best Film of the 1950s, Over 120 Participants

It was a closer race than anticipated, but Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” has topped our best of the ’50s poll, besting Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s “Singin’ in the Rain” by just two votes.

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Critics Poll: Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Tops Our 1960s Critics Poll

We’ve already covered the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Now we have the results for the Best Films of the 1960s.

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