Kyle Buchanan

A City’s in Grave Danger. Why Would Superman Save a Squirrel?

“Let’s be too earnest. What is wrong with all of us that we have to protect ourselves constantly by being less earnest?”

James Gunn and I went long on the “Superman” squirrel scene and other deleted moments: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/m...

Superman Is Not Cool. And That’s Great.

Joined my colleagues Gilbert Cruz and @kylebuchanan.bsky.social on the Culture Desk podcast to talk SUPERMAN, the very good boy Krypto, politics, history, the future of DC and all that jazz:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/p...

“I wanted to be famous so I could find a way that people would love me. Over the years, I’ve learned it doesn’t make you feel that — it just makes you feel worse.”

I interviewed James Gunn: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/m...

Glad you enjoyed!

I profiled the new Superman, David Corenswet: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/m...

Readers Choose Their Top Movies of the 21st Century (Gift Article) The people have spoken. Here are the movies they voted for.

Over 200,000 people cast their own ballots for the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century. So how do their picks stack up against Hollywood’s?

Here’s a brand-new list tabulating the readers’ top 100! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Still got questions about the NYT’s Best 100 Movies list? Hop into today’s Reddit AMA and we’ll do our best to answer: www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

Tomorrow, the top 20 films will be revealed. Any guesses for the top five?

#41-60 is now up! Did one of the movies you put on your ballot place in this section? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#80 to #61 is now up on the list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century.

The best part of the Times’ list of the 100 Best Movies since 2000 has to be the public ballots. Love these Sofia Coppola picks! Love that Luca Guadagnino picks 9 very Luca movies but also John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century (Gift Article) More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films released since Jan. 1, 2000. See how their ballots stacked up.

So excited to have this out!

I’ve been working on The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century for months. We polled over 500 major directors, actors, and other people in and around Hollywood to find out the best films released since 2000. You’re gonna be obsessed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

MATERIALISTS is going to spark a lot of conversations. I had a long, fascinating one with its director, Celine Song. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/m...

Last Year’s Cannes Winners Won Big at Oscars. Can the 2025 Crop Do the Same?

The last two editions of Cannes have produced 3 Best Picture nominees each. Will this year follow suit? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/m...

I wrote about why you can’t trust the reported times of a Cannes standing ovation: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/m...

I wrote about TITANE director Julia Ducournau’s new film ALPHA, and the perils of following up a major Cannes hit www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/m...

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I interviewed Kristen Stewart about her directorial debut, starring in her wife’s own directorial debut, and baring her metaphorical breasts

That said, I also forecasted some early Palme odds here: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/m...

What will win the Palme d’Or at Cannes? I know the answer with total certainty: It will be the movie I end up skipping because I’m too tired. In that way, I wield a power that surpasses even that of the jury

I wrote about Tom Cruise and the intriguing meta narrative of his big Cannes premiere www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/m...

Tom Cruise is signing autographs outside his Cannes premiere. I would like to think he’s just scrawling “Movies!!!” and then underlining it

Bonsoir from the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE premiere at Cannes

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Hello from the Cannes jury press conference. Here is Jeremy Strong making his entrance in a bucket hat

Bonjour from Cannes! For the next two weeks, I’ll fill you in on all the major movies and fun run-ins from the Croisette. Until then, here’s what I’m keeping my eye on: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/m...

The director of THUNDERBOLTS gave me the scoop on the movie’s marketing name change to THE NEW AVENGERS, which rolled out in full this morning: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/m...

David Cronenberg was much more sanguine about A.I. than I expected

I interviewed David Cronenberg www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/m...