Raunchy comedy I Want Your Sex starring Olivia Wilde as an artsy dominatrix and Cooper Hoffman as her muse is spinning some R-rated counter programming to Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The Gregg Araki film from Magnolia Pictures, which world premiered at Sundance (see Deadline review), hits about…

The busiest weekend for indie film openings in weeks has a mix of wide and limited releases, narrative features and docs, genre, special engagements and festival fare from Berlin, Cannes and Venice (2025). The Odyssey has landed, and awards season is on the horizon.   Bleecker Street this frame…

Sundance double prize-winning documentary American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez, the story of the groundbreaking Chicano activist and director, opens at Film Forum in NYC. Friday night's screening — with Valdez, director David Alvarado and Lou Diamond Phillips — is sold out, and the weekend…

Sony Pictures Classics' comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass opens wide along with IFC erotic thriller Night Nurse. Buzzy Barrio Triste by longtime Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz and documentaries including Ross McElwee's Venice award-winning Remake and Jessica Earnshaw's Baby Doe are other…

July 4 weekend is a quiet one for new indie releases, leaving the field to Angel Studios' PG-13 wide release Young Washington on 2,700 screens. From Angel and Wonder Project, the film, timed to the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S., stars British actor William Franklyn-Miller as the…

A24 hopes to hit a sweet spot in an underserved genre as it serves up comedy The Invite directed by and starring Olivia Wilde with Seth Rogen, Ed Norton and Penélope Cruz. Angelina Jolie is back on the big screen, and in Paris, in Couture. Cannes premieres from Romeria to Drunken Noodles to The Wave…

Maddie's Secret by John Early is doing brisk business at the IFC Center as screenings fill up for opening weekend of the Magnolia Pictures’ comedy. Critically acclaimed Rose Of Nevada from 1-2 Special and Sony Pictures Classics' Unidentified also debut in limited release along with music docs on Greg…

RuPaul is back on the big screen joined by a handful of limited indie openings from Cannes-premiering Promised Sky to award-winning documentary The Gas Station Attendant and O Horizon starring Maria Bakalova. The weekend is sprinkled with limited release restorations including Alejandro González…

TIFF-premiering romantic crime thriller Carolina Caroline and animated adventure The Last Whale Singer open in moderate release. The Little Sister from Cannes, documentary Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC, She’s The He and anime Jinsei are new limited debuts. John Carney's Power Ballad with Paul Rudd and…

Ask E. Jean by Ivy Meeropol is holding over for second week at IFC Center in New York after a full-house opening weekend and adding the NuArt in LA before expanding. Over 40 theaters are booked for the next month as the distributors build a network to support the documentary about the writer and…

Neon's surreal crime comedy I Love Boosters opens wide for the Memorial Day holiday frame a bit crowded with The Mandalorian And Grogu, Focus Features’ breakout Obsession and studio holdovers. Boosters reviews are great, and director Boots Riley urged fans to turn out. "We didn't get the…

Vertical opens Olivier Assayas’ political thriller The Wizard of the Kremlin, delving into the Byzantine politics of post-Soviet Russia and the rise to power of Vladimir Putin, on 582 screens. It stars Jude Law as Putin, a cold-blooded, ruthlessly power-hungry KGB agent. Paul Dano is spin doctor and…