Concrete Utopia Review: South Korea’s Oscar Entry Delivers Class Satire and Genre Blockbuster Thrills
Just as Pulp Fiction triggered a wave of inferior gangster flicks with a penchant for witty, fast-paced dialogue and Get Out paved the way ...
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Wonka Review: Timothée Chalamet is Miscast in Beautiful, Belabored Prequel
When it was first announced Warner Bros. was in the early stages of developing a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel about Willy Wonk...
La Syndicaliste Review: Isabelle Huppert-Led Procedural Works as Companion Piece to Elle
I’ll admit I didn’t expect to see an overt Vertigo homage in the middle of this rather matter-of-fact Isabelle Huppert procedural. Fixating...
Shayda Review: Australia’s Oscar Entry is a Well-Realized Debut Touching on a Raw Nerve of Trauma
Director Noora Niasari’s debut Shayda––and Australia’s submission for Best International Feature at next year’s Oscars––is quite literally ...
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New to Streaming: May December, The Holdovers, What Happens Later, Beyond Utopia, and More
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...
14 Films to See in December
It's the final month of the year, which means much of our attention will be turned to sharing various best-of-2023 rundowns throughout December. The month also...
The B-Side – In Conversation with The Fugitive Director Andrew Davis
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...
La Syndicaliste Review: Isabelle Huppert-Led Procedural Works as Companion Piece to Elle
I’ll admit I didn’t expect to see an overt Vertigo homage in the middle of this rather matter-of-fact Isabelle Huppert procedural. Fixating for a second on the...
Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2023 Includes Trenque Lauquen, Fallen Leaves, and Anatomy of a Fall
Established in the 1950s by André Bazin, Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, France’s Cahiers du cinéma has been a bastion for international fil...
Shayda Review: Australia’s Oscar Entry is a Well-Realized Debut Touching on a Raw Nerve of Trauma
Director Noora Niasari’s debut Shayda––and Australia’s submission for Best International Feature at next year’s Oscars––is quite literally a lifetime in the ma...
The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters
We're thrilled to launch a new feature on The Film Stage highlighting our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restoration...
Furiosa Trailer: George Miller Brings Us Back to the Apocalypse
Amidst the year-end lists, catch-up for year-end lists, and efforts not to think about year-end lists, it's with a heavy heart I announce we must start thinkin...
The Road to a Masterpiece: The Radical Cinema of Kijū Yoshida
There was a time when Japanese filmmaker Kijū Yoshida was a cinephile’s mark of exquisite taste. While not entirely obscure, his work has been less-discussed t...
Isabelle Huppert on How Every Performance Is Like Acting for the First Time
Isabelle Huppert is one of cinema's most fearless and compelling performers: she can be both powerfully raw and impenetrably composed at once. It is even more ...