One of our early favorites to seek out in the new year is The World to Come, Mona Fastvold's long-awaited follow-up to her debut The Sleepwalker. Set in the 19...
The most remarkable thing about The Marksman is how actively it insists on not setting itself apart. Almost willfully mediocre, Robert Lorenz’s neo-western fea...
As his delightful reunion with Fran Lebowitz, Pretend It's a City, arrives on Netflix, it's afforded the opportunity for Martin Scorsese to step into the spotl...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...
Don DeLillo's rarely been adapted for film and Noah Baumbach's never adapted a novel*. Does that make them certain bedfellows? Well, no, probably not even a li...
While there's no release date confirmed quite yet, near the top of our most-anticipated films of 2021 is Joel Coen's new Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of ...
From The Bourne Identity to Mr. & Mrs. Smith to Edge of Tomorrow, Doug Liman's scale has come a long way since his smaller-scale breakouts Swingers and Go....
When encountering the societal and economic structures of everyday life, it’s not a rare dream for many to wonder what life may look like off the grid and out ...
Following his indie sci-fi features Another Earth and I Origins, director Mike Cahill has spent the last few years helming TV but now he's back with his third ...
The films of Naomi Kawase don't always receive major releases in the United States, but thankfully that's not the case for her newest feature, True Mothers. In...
