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KVIFF 2025: “Bidad” Director Soheil Beiraghi on Filming Undercover,...

Of the films competing for the Crystal Globe at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, only one—Soheil Beiraghi’s “Bidad,” the title of which translates to “Outcry”—was kept secret until...

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MGM+ Adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Institute” Won’t Keep Students Awake

A bit of “Minority Report,” a dash of “Stranger Things,” a lot of “The Shining,” and even a dollop of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” blend into a gray, bland soup in MGM+’s disappointing “The...

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Ari Aster Talks with Chaz Ebert about “Eddington” at Music Box

This Saturday, July 12th, Chaz Ebert will moderate a Q&A with writer/director Ari Aster about his latest film, “Eddington,” following a special promotional screening at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre...

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Our 10 Most Anticipated Films of the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival

The world’s largest genre film festival, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the most exciting, not to mention lengthy (it typically runs two, sometimes nearly three weeks),...

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KVIFF 2025: Stellan Skarsgård on “Sentimental Value,” Ingmar Bergman, and...

At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, no honorary award is more prestigious than the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, bestowed annually on an individual...

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30 Minutes On: “Nashville”

For this series, MZS starts writing on a chosen film and stops 30 minutes later. On a film turning 50 this year… Robert Altman’s “Nashville” is a portrait of the United States on the eve of the...

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Book Excerpt: It Can’t Rain All the Time by Alisha Mughal

We are extremely proud to present an excerpt from a new book about “The Crow,” available today. Alisha Mughal, who has written pieces for us about “Fatal Attraction,” “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” and...

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KVIFF 2025: Sand City, The Visitor, Better Go Mad in the Wild

It’s always surprising, when watching films from all over the world at a festival as diverse as this year’s 59th Karlovy Vary International Festival, how strong thematic parallels start to emerge....

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Our Minds Have Been Colonized: Ari Aster on “Eddington”

It may be about time, or perhaps far too soon, to craft a movie that explores the realities of living through Summer 2020. Regardless, director Ari Aster’s pugnacious and genre-pliant “Eddington” is...

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KVIFF 2025: Awards and Wrap-Up

Experiencing it for the first time during its 59th edition, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival proved—at least for this critic—both formidable and revitalizing. The same can be said for the...

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