In a rare move, two films tied for the best live-action short film Oscar — something that’s happened only six times before. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Elliot Tuttle's film, billed by IndieWire as one of the most daring American films of recent vintage, will be released in May. The film has now been picked up by fledgling distributor Obscured ...

Whenever I browse through social media or Letterboxd to see what movies young film lovers are discovering, I often see the usual suspects: pictures made by Hitchcock, Coppola, and Scorsese, with a ...

Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get ...

"The Karate Kid" and "The Wrecking Crew," a 2008 documentary about a group of esteemed studio musicians, have joined a revered band of movies – the latest 25 films selected for the National Film ...

While President Donald Trump is pushing Americans to see his wife’s documentary “Melania” which premieres this week, the Library of Congress is reminding us that the country’s cinematic history is ...

The 2026 edition of the Sundance Film Festival marks the event’s last year in Park City before it moves to its new home in Boulder, Colorado. This year’s festival will also celebrate Sundance founder ...

Three hundred seventeen films are eligible for this year’s Academy Awards, according to a list released on Thursday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Of those, 201 are eligible in ...

In Eden Rock, the pregnant Chloe van Heerden (Reine Swart) returns to the house of her estranged mother Ruby (Thandi Puren). She refuses to tell her mother who the father is. She delivers the boy Liam ...

Your 2026 movie-going calendar is already filling up, and fast. Over the course of a calendar year, we here at IndieWire watch hundreds of new films. Some of those titles make it to our best of the ...

The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2025. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...