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Announcing our newest Los Angeles Film Critics Association event on March 26: a double feature of THE IRON GIANT and THE INCREDIBLES! 🍿 Writer/director Brad Bird will join us between films for Q&A moderated by Peter Debruge, Chief Film Critic for @variety. See two timeless classics for one ticket

ANORA winning best picture (following Cannes breakouts faring well in that category these past few years) puts the festival in a curious new position ... giving art cinema a platform, while finally being seen as a potential Oscar launchpad. variety.com/2025/film/colu…

Discover the luscious queer classic that redefined how male bodies can be celebrated on screen: James Bidgood's PINK NARCISSUS (the same labor of love/lust that inspired the look of Pierre et Gilles, Charli XCX and David LaChapelle). variety.com/2025/film/colu…

If you were scared about what last night's "second screen" M3GAN experience means for the movies, don't worry. It was a total dud: a half-baked marketing gimmick that didn't seem to convert anyone to using their phones during the film. variety.com/2025/film/colu…

Le présentateur de "Fort Boyard" et "Tout le monde à son mot à dire" sur France 2, Olivier Minne, quitte le service public pour rejoindre le Groupe M6. bit.ly/4d2ksdF

EDDINGTON = about as much fun as a knife to the head. Ari Aster's ultra-cynical & intentionally triggering take on the division, paranoia & hypocrisy wrought (or maybe just exposed) by the pandemic on a once-"great" ghost-town America feels like breathing poison gas for 2½ hours.

We had such a great team of critics covering Cannes this year. Much thanks to Owen Gleiberman Guy Lodge Jessica Kiang Tomris Laffly Murtada Elfadl Siddhant Adlakha Catherine for their eloquence and insights! Here's a roundup of our best of the fest: variety.com/lists/best-mov…

We should honestly replace box office and minutes watched with kilos sold.

Start saving your allowance, kids! The Criterion Collection Collection unveils the ultimate Wes Anderson box set (10 films across 25 years, minus his last two for Focus Features, in both Blu-ray & 4K), neatly packaged for maximum dweebiness. criterion.com/boxsets/8208-t…

This sounds like a slanted way of encouraging what already happens. For a couple years now, enthusiastic tweets for most studio movies (including those by you, Justin 🔜#TIFF50 #TIFF25) break and get rounded up in gushy "first reactions" reports before the films are shown to trade critics.

I'll be returning to one of my favorite film festivals, Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, this year. The pandemic really disrupted my fest calendar, and looking forward to old friends & also seeing how things have evolved. (It's the town that inspired the Grand Budapest Hotel.)

I've been waiting for someone to make the case for ALPHA. (At Cannes, every film elicits every kind of reaction, but that one seemed to spark only haters.) Look forward to reading, Devika Girish

I love this line from your piece, which is true (but also the curse of the critic, to whom so many turn for Answers): "I cannot say I understood what exactly happened, but understanding is overrated in cinema."

Carlos López Estrada (Directors Branch) knows that directing is about more than vision - it’s about preservation. In the latest Filmmaker Framing interview, he joins Andrea Kalas (Production & Technology) for a candid conversation about the creative and technical choices that

Today! 💫 THE PASSAGE directed by Roberto Minervini United States, Belgium, 2011, 85 min World premiere of new restoration: 5pm BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS. Q&A with Minervini and Variety’s Peter Debruge (Peter Debruge) to follow the film. 🎟️: studios.wearebraindead.com/movies/the-pas…

After all that buildup, NYT's #1 movie of the century is … PARASITE? Give me a break! What would you have picked? bit.ly/4k9ttDF My ballot: Borat Eternal Sunshine The Gleaners & I I Am Love The Piano Teacher The Rider Secret Sunshine The Tree of Life WALL•E Yi Yi

In addition to the 5 films named to Variety's Best Movies of 2025 (So Far) list (variety.com/lists/best-mov…), watch out for these 5 upcoming gems: - Dreams (Sex Love) - It Was Just an Accident - Nirvanna - The Band - The Show - The Movie - Souleymane's Story - The Sound of Falling

Between SUPERMAN and THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, it looks like superhero studios are going retro in an effort to win back the fans. I appreciated that FF stands alone, whatever role it may play in Marvel's world-consuming master strategy. variety.com/2025/film/revi…

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ sing-along event has now SOLD-OUT over 300 theater screenings. Theaters are reportedly asking Netflix to extend the run.