In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) mutters to herself from some dark corner of the ...

Natalia Keogan highlights five films (and two amazing musical acts) to catch at the 2026 True/False Film Fest.

I found a way to look into the universe,” says non-fiction Australian filmmaker Josef Gatti in his feature debut Phenomena. Paradoxically, it turns out that the wonders of the universe ...

In his final Considerations column before Oscar voting closes, Tyler Coates celebrates the unpredictability of this year’s potential winners.

Toronto-based writer Dylan Adamson delves into the mysterious backstory of The Napa Boys, the latest from comedians Nick ...

The BAFTAs were rife with scandals and upsets, but as Oscar voting come to a close, will the PGA and Actors Awards provide more clarity?

In Filipiñana, tension often lives inside the image itself: a desiccated pine tree creaks against a bright blue sky; mangos left to rot on the branch. There is beauty here, but also decay. Rafael ...

As 2025 unfolded, returning to the ritual of asking filmmakers about the films that moved them feels both fragile and necessary. This exercise appears days after yet another grotesque display of ...

In Netflix’s A House of Dynamite, the United States’ government and military chain of commands scramble to respond as a ballistic missile of unknown origin speeds toward the Midwest. The non-linear ...

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 ...