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Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Venice Film Festival. Searchlight Pictures opens “The Testament of Ann Lee” in select theaters on December 25. Hot on the heels of “The Brutalist,” Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet have returned with another sweeping historical epic about a European iconoclast who comes to America in…
Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Independent Film Company releases “The Plague” in select theaters on December 24. The experience of engaging with a film can give you a reference for expressing a personal idea that you didn’t previously have the words for. This transference makes a moot…
The scale of “Marty Supreme” matches the ambition of its protagonist, Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet). While Mauser’s manic quest to become the face of table tennis as a world champion takes him everywhere from the bowels of the Lower East Side to Japan (and back again), the challenge for casting director Jennifer Venditti in her…
Saar Klein is a two-time Oscar-nominated editor for his work on Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” and Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line.” In other words, he knows his way around an auteur’s particular and often mercurial vision. For the hostage thriller “Dead Man’s Wire” — based on the true story of Tony Kiritsis’ kidnapping of…
In the spirit of us both being fans of Japanese anime, specifically the shōnen genre that filled Cartoon Network and Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block, like “Dragon Ball Z” and “My Hero Academia,” I ask Critics Choice and Golden Globe Award nominee Michael B. Jordan what arc his career is currently in. As we sit…
Writer/director Craig Brewer‘s “Song Sung Blue” is an exuberant ode to chasing dreams. It’s as deliriously romantic as it is clear-eyed about the brutal tragedies and struggles its real-life heroes, Mike (Hugh Jackman) and Claire Sardina (Kate Hudson), experience. In Brewer’s hands, the true story of a husband and wife who form a Neil Diamond…
Joachim Trier isn’t 100 percent comfortable with the fact that his Oscar contender, “Sentimental Value,” is being labeled a melodrama. But then again, he was never comfortable with the idea of ever making a film that could be interpreted as one. On the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, the self-described “counterculture punk” said his decision to tackle…
Clint Bentley’s latest film, “Train Dreams,” has a hard balance to strike between the meditative, almost shy, and quite heartbreaking interiority of its protagonist, logger and lumberman Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), and the harsh, cyclical world in which he lives. The look of the film needs to support both a grounded sense of the period…
Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) has announced filmmaker Jessica Sanders as the recipient of the 2025 Lynn Shelton Of a Certain Age Grant, as IndieWire shares exclusively. Co-founded by Duplass Brothers Productions (DBP) with NWFF, the grant is now in its sixth year. It awards $25,000 to a U.S.-based woman, nonbinary, or transgender filmmaker, age 39…
Now here is something rare: good news. It was announced earlier this year that, after 26 years, the beloved film festival Ebertfest, founded by iconic film critic Roger Ebert and currently run by his widow Chaz Ebert and festival director Nate Kohn, was coming to a likely end at its longstanding home at the Virginia…
