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A24 dropped the trailer for its latest film “Past Lives,” a romantic drama about two childhood friends who reunite 20 years after they last saw each other.

Played by Greta Lee (“Russian Doll”), Nora came to America from South Korea with her family as a young girl, and hasn’t seen Hae Sung since then. When he comes to New York for a week, they fall into an easy familiarity, picking up where they left off.

The video opens with Greta reminiscing on their friendship as she explains to her husband (John Magaro) the meaning of “In-Yun”: “It means providence. Or fate.”

Asked if she believes in it, she says, “That’s just something Koreans say to seduce someone.”

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The fantasy film “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” released in theaters 10 months ago, scored a big victory Sunday at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards, winning awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan and Best Editing for Paul Rogers.

Brendan Fraser won the award for Best Actor for his emotional role as an overweight man in “The Whale.” In a possible precursor to the Oscars, the award marks Fraser’s first major prize of the season. Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett scored the Best Actress award for her acclaimed and awards-magnet role as a music conductor in “Tár.”

In other top film categories, Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) won Best Supporting Actress, backing up her recent Golden Globe win and solidifying her Oscar chances. Other film winners included Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”) for Best Original Screenplay, and...

When thinking about the best documentaries, it’s hard not to have lofty thoughts. These projects span film and TV and invite you to not just think about a specific corner of the world in a new way but see it through someone else’s eyes. Whether fascinating stranger-than-fiction stories or radicalizing tools for empathy, the best documentaries also reinvent non-fiction storytelling, reminding us of its place as a rarefied art form.

A lot of these stories are self-reflections from the greater world of entertainment. We digest what informs, but it’s also really easy to take lengthy deep dives into why the culture responds to what it does (and who are the people at the center of that). But there are many cases where documentaries invite you to elevate your consciousness and consider an area of life that you never thought could sustain more than a passing fascination, much...

Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio" is a beautiful tour de force. Here the Mexican auteur reimagines the old tale, keeping its Italian setting but building his own world, thanks in part to the film's lush and distinctive stop-motion animation. "Pinocchio" is entirely del Toro's, bringing sweetness to the dark and monstrous aesthetic of the "Pan's Labyrinth" creator. The film follows Pinocchio to the underworld and imagines an afterlife that feels as at home here as it would in his 2017 Oscar-winner "The Shape of Water." Similar to that film, "Pinocchio" uses its otherworldly quality to explore aspects of the human experience that can feel difficult to approach when considered head-on. Here, the focus is on fathers and sons and how the pressures of masculinity can make it particularly important and fraught.

Del Toro begins "Pinocchio" with a long exposition of Geppetto's past. In it, we learn the toy maker had a...

Monday night, Paramount hosted an early screening of Damien Chazelle’s highly anticipated new film “Babylon,” and reactions to the comedic epic set in the Golden Age of Hollywood are as wild and grandiose as the era it depicts.

Out Dec. 23, the film is the Oscar-winning “La La Land” writer-director’s first feature since 2018, and in his own words, his most ambitious project yet. The A-list cast is led by “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” co-stars Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, as well as newcomer Diego Calva. Olivia Wilde, Flea, Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire and Spike Jonze among many others also star in this fictionalized account of big dreams and bigger debauchery in 1920s Hollywood.

A first trailer, released in September, promised entertainment and chaos in equal measure, with characters narrowly avoiding certain death on movie sets, falling off of balconies at sumptuous parties and snorting lines of coke.

Welcome to IndieWire ’90s Week, an unfettered celebration of the decade that every millennial will always think of as “10 years ago.”

This completely random celebration of the last years of the 20th century — a critical tribute to the spirit of a time that no reboot or legacy sequel could ever quite manage to capture — kicks off with our ranked mega-list of the decade’s 100 greatest films, and follows that up with interviews with the people who made them, essays about how the impact these modern classics had on the world at large, close listens of the scores and needle-drops that still reverberate in our ears, and more.

Below, you’ll find a comprehensive schedule of the ’90s Week goodness to come, which will update with links to our stories as they go live over the course of the week. Cowabunga, dudes!

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As if. While the ‘90s may still be linked with a wide variety of dubious holdovers — including curious slang, questionable fashion choices, and sinister political agendas — many of the decade’s cultural contributions have cast an outsized shadow on the first stretch of the 21st century. Nowhere is that phenomenon more obvious or explicable than it is at the movies.

The ’90s began with a revolt against the kind of bland Hollywood product that people might kill to see in theaters today, creaking open a small window of time in which a more commercially viable American independent cinema began seeping into mainstream fare. Young and exciting directors, many of whom are now major auteurs and perennial IndieWire favorites, were given the resources to make multiple films — some of them on massive scales. Meanwhile, the industry establishment responded to the sudden influx of new talent by entrusting its biggest tentpoles to...

A Latina music manager and singer set out to dream big and disrupt the music scene.

The documentary “Mija” centers on Doris Anahí Muñoz and singer Jacks Haupt, both of whom hail from undocumented Mexican-American families. The film premiered at Sundance 2022 before being acquired as the first feature under the new Disney Original Documentary banner. “Mija” premieres August 5 in select theaters and will be available to stream on Disney+ later in 2022. IndieWire exclusively premieres the trailer, below.

Audiences in New York City will be treated to a special premiere in Central Park on August 3 as part of the Summerstage series, with a performance from both musicians and documentary subjects, Muñoz and Haupt.

Emmy nominated director Isabel Castro helms and produces her debut feature after directing the docuseries “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak.” The former Vice producer captures Muñoz’s family missing her brother, who was deported five years prior,...