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Hollywood’s banner year continues with record-breaking new blockbusters—plus, some really great independent comedies.

Between Obsession and Backrooms, the kids are taking cinemas by storm.

I monitored the box office, read the trades, and spoke to smart people who work in each sector of the industry—and there’s one consensus.

If you want answers, turn to someone whose work you’ve certainly seen in the wild: the short-form-video prodigy Adam Faze.

Amid the big screen’s apocalyptic news cycle, the Materialists director is hopeful for good reason.

Among the Oscar hopeful’s many unsung heroes is Sev Ohanian—a producer who just might’ve cracked the code of the modern event movie.

Expect big things this year, including the final Dune installment, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and Greta Gerwig’s Narnia.

This year, the big screen reflected the grueling nature of modern life.

Here's where The Phoenician Scheme lands in the celebrated director's filmography.

The auteur's latest finds a renegade tycoon confronted with usual Wesworld fare—assassins, the government, his daughter. But there's something deeper behind his usual flair.

The Academy Awards not only overlooked the year’s most exciting cinematic achievements but reminded us why the Oscars will forever be the Oscars—staid, showy, and frequently questionable.

Director Rachel Morrison told us how she conveyed the inherent thrill and triumph of boxer Claressa Shields’s story—while making this year’s best biopic. (Sorry, Timmy.)