Oscars 2026 Ratings Fall 9 Percent to 17.9 Million Viewers, Lowest Since 2022
It's a significant dip from last year when the show received 19.69 million viewers.
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Was ‘Sinners’ Just Too Scary to Beat the Anti-Horror Bias for Best Picture?
"Sinners" won four Oscars, but those categories honored individuals rather than the film as a whole.
‘Manhood’ Review: Penis Enlargement Documentary Curves Left of Center
SXSW: Daniel Lombroso's certainly bizarre but sensitive portrait follows a PhalloFill entrepreneur (it's what it sounds like) and two of his clients a…
‘V for Vendetta’ Oral History: The Wachowskis, Natalie Portman, and Many More on the Dystopian Classic at 20 Years Old
Director James McTeigue, stars Stephen Rea and Natasha Wightman, and more on shaved heads, Warners' reaction to the queer Valerie Page scene, and why …
‘Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story’ Review: A Rediscovered Y2K-Era Album Is Only Half the Story
SXSW: Actress and first-time filmmaker Ayden Mayeri dives deep into her own pre-teen years for a disarming and wise look at female coming-of-age.
‘Dead Lover’ Smelled an Opportunity to Get Audiences Into Theaters with ‘Stink-O-Vision’
Director and star Grace Glowicki talks about her midnight movie and how some scratch-and-sniff cards are more than just a gimmick.
‘Dune: Part Three’ Trailer: Denis Villeneuve Prepares to End His Space Opera with an Ambitious Epilogue
Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya return for the third film in the series (don't call it a trilogy!), which adapts parts of Frank Herbert's "Dune Messiah.…
Dune: Part Three Trailer: Denis Villeneuve Concludes His Sci-Fi Trilogy
Before he heads off to embark on his James Bond film, Denis Villeneuve is concluding the saga that has taken up much of the last decade. Going by the …
‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Review: Lisa Kudrow’s Brilliant Satire Confronts Hollywood’s Collapse with a Smile
Valerie Cherish returns to HBO in a final season that begins with the indomitable actress leading a sitcom written by AI and expands into an existenti…
Blue Heron Trailer: Sophy Romvari’s Acclaimed Feature Debut Arrives This April
One of the most acclaimed feature-directing debuts of the last year, Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron premiered at the Locarno Film Festival where it …
Nuri Bilge Ceylan Sets Summer Shoot for New Film Pale Sun
Nuri Bilge Ceylan usually takes more than a few years between films as of late, and thus we’ve been waiting to hear what might be next. The Turk…
Amrum Trailer: Fatih Akin Reteams with Diane Kruger in WWII-Set Cannes Selection
Reuniting after 2017’s In the Fade, Fatih Akin and Diane Kruger’s WWII-set drama Amrum premiered to acclaim at last year’s Cannes Fi…
‘Amrum’ Trailer: Diane Kruger Commands Fatih Akin’s Timeless, Loud-and-Clear WWII Resistance Drama
Exclusive: Kino Lorber, the distributor behind 2026 Best Documentary Feature Oscar winner "Mr. Nobody Against Putin," will release the Cannes 2025 fav…
Warner Bros. Releases Over 50 More Looney Tunes Classics from the Vault
The second volume of Warner Archive's "Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault" series is another must-own Blu-ray treasure for animation enthusiasts.
SXSW Review: The Last Critic Hails the Great Music Scribe Robert Christgau
In 2022, Charli XCX emblazoned “they don’t build statues of critics” on a custom t-shirt––a little nudge and provocation rather than a knock-dow…
SXSW Review: Pizza Movie Is a Strange Dumb Trip That Understands the Assignment
As far as dumb comedies go, Pizza Movie is a masterclass in throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. It doesn’t always land, but when it do…
Two Seasons, Two Strangers Trailer: Sho Miyake’s Golden Leopard Winner Arrives This April
One of the great films of the year, Sho Miyake’s gorgeous, tranquil Two Seasons, Two Strangers picked up the Golden Leopard at Locarno last summ…
The Criterion Collection’s June Lineup Features John Waters, Jafar Panahi, Lav Diaz, Med Hondo, and More
Representing their busiest month in recent memory, June offers nine releases and eleven titles from the Criterion Collection. Perhaps of greatest note…
Gabe Klinger on Finishing Movies, Navigating Festivals, and Isabel
Take one step into the world of festivals and you’ll understand that making a movie isn’t just “making a movie.” Even if one h…
“It Scared a Lot of People”: Jane Alexander on Testament, Nuclear Threats, and Her Accomplished Career
Jane Alexander has one of those careers that seems impossible. Four Academy Award nominations in fourteen years. A Tony Award in 1969 for the Howard S…