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Venice Film Festival audiences went fully in for Robert Pattinson’s immersive performance as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen in “Primetime,” which…
Not everything labeled “old-fashioned” needs to carry negative connotations. A handwritten letter, your grandma’s rice pudding, the cocktail — all nice…
Nothing sharpens the mind like working within constraints. Made on a shoestring production grant of €200,000 ($234,000) and given three weeks to write a…
Outside of Pattinson's big swing as "To Catch a Predator" host Chris Hansen, Lance Oppenheim's feature debut "Primetime" serves as a showcase for stars Merritt…
Two action flicks, Paramount’s “By Any Means” and A24’s “Onslaught,” arrived in theaters on Friday. But neither could dethrone “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,”…
Telluride Day One boasted two world premieres with heart-rending performances.
Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 this year. So when Maggie Gyllenhaal was approached to make a movie about her, she asked for a weekend to daydream about…
EXCLUSIVE: Was the Indian born “anti-guru” U.G. Krishnamurti a destroyer or a builder? Was he cruel or compassionate? The answer to both questions may be…
Reviews are rolling in for A24’s new movie Primetime, which is debuting at the Venice Film Festival today. Robert Pattinson stars in the Lance…
Venice: One of the few female filmmakers to break out of Bangladesh, Rubaiyat Hossain’s fourth feature resists genre categorizations. But it makes a meal of a…
The Venice Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Primetime, directed by Lance Oppenheim, starring Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, and…
Three teenagers, unclothed, stand close to one another in a forest, gently caressing the wounds they have inflicted on one another. This is the climactic…
IndieWire's Brian Welk reflects on his experience as a jury member for the upcoming AI film festival taking place in Venice.
It’s astonishing, the sick and twisted things grown men will say to vulnerable children — or rather adults pretending to be children — in chat rooms on the…
Venice: Filmed in secret, Ahmed Hassouna’s discerning doc wears its heart unassumingly on its sleeve and holds its no-frills camera setup sturdily in its hands.
“Can you get tighter in on him?” Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) demands of the technician editing his latest “To Catch a Predator” segment. He has noticed…
Lance Oppenheim scuzzies up his fiction feature debut about hidden-camera, reality-TV exploitation with a grim style and often twisted performances from…
Telluride: Tez Steinberg’s two solo rowing expeditions are impressive, even if Bryan Fogel’s profile feels unexamined.
It’s that time again — Saturday mornings are for The Weekend Read. If you missed some of our meatier features from the past week, fear not, here’s a selection…
For anyone whose happy place is an old-school library reading room, all aged dark wood and green-and-gold reading lamps casting warm islands of light in the…
