UPDATED, MAY 17: Since our last report, a raft of competition heavy hitters have arrived on the Croisette, bringing strong reviews and word-of-mouth. While Americans […]
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‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Stars as a Hotheaded Director
Javier Bardem plays a hotheaded filmmaker, one of those “brilliant assholes” mostly incapable of making great art without wringing it out of tyrannical behavior, in […]
‘The Diary of a Chambermaid’ Review 2026: Radu Jude’s Meta-Adaptation
Loosely adapted from Octave Mirbeau’s Decadent novel, and transformed farcically as only filmmaker Radu Jude can, “The Diary of a Chambermaid” is yet another socioeconomic […]
Paper Tiger Review: James Gray Directs Adam Driver in Mob Tragedy
It’s the final weekend of summer in 1986, upwardly aspirant Jewish families across Queens are still crowding around country club pools to make sure they […]
Asghar Farhadi ‘Parallel Tales’ Cannes Interview
Asghar Farhadi returns to the Cannes competition for the fifth time with his 10th feature, “Parallel Tales,” loosely inspired by the late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof […]
‘Is God Is’ Director Aleshea Harris Interview
When the playwright and now film director Aleshea Harris began writing the script for “Is God Is,” she was on food stamps; subletting an apartment […]
Sheep in the Box Review: Hirokazu Koreeda Riffs on Spielberg’s A.I.
A master sentimentalist like Hirokazu Koreeda riffing on a movie as soul-obliterating as Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” sounds like a surefire recipe for the […]
‘Survivor 50’: Why Legends Keep Coming Back
Welcome to Pour One Out! In this series, IndieWire celebrates some of our favorite characters on TV that have come to the end of their run this season, […]
SAG-AFTRA’s AI Deal Shows that Hollywood Still Values Human Actors
There’s a contingent of actors who will see anything short of an outright ban on AI and synthetic performers in Hollywood as a failure on […]
Crash Out with Stephen King’s ‘Maximum Overdrive’ (1986) — Anniversary
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark honors fringe cinema in the streaming age with midnight movies from any moment in film history. First, the BAIT: a weird genre pick, and why we’re […]