Challengers Review: Non-Stop Lurid Entertainment Rides the Charisma of Its Stars
Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers opens in an intentionally disorienting manner: We are in New Rochelle, New York for a tennis challenger. Wear...
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Omen Review: An Assured Debut That Never Falters in Ambition or Surprise
When considering a film, it can be healthy to have some skepticism, no matter what genre or subject matter is at hand. With regards to Omen...
The People’s Joker Review: Superhero-Skewering Satire is Miraculous in Multiple Ways
It’s a genuine miracle that The People’s Joker has managed to make it to screens unscathed, especially considering the legal battles which ...
SXSW Review: Secret Mall Apartment Finds Artists Making a Home in the Belly of the Gentrification Beast
Shedding light on a quirky 2007 story that made national headlines, Secret Mall Apartment takes us deep into the bowels of the Providence P...
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Watershed British Feature Pressure Returns In Trailer for New Restoration
The first British feature written and directed by a Black feature did not come, improbably and somehow, until 1976. This alone would make Horace Ove's Pressure...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Lineup Unveiled
Ahead of a festival kicking off in just about a month, Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, have unveiled...
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...
The Film Stage Show Ep. 534 – Monkey Man (with Jenny Nulf)
Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Jenny Nulf to discuss Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man.
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First Footage from Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and Guy Maddin’s Rumours Arrive
Rarely do we make note of single-digit seconds' footage, but when it's two films that ranked among our 50 most-anticipated films of 2024––one landing very high...
Explore the Sweet West in Trailer for the Ross Brothers’ Acclaimed Gasoline Rainbow
After rounding out a fruitful festival run that spanned Venice to last month's First Look, Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross’s seventh feature Gasoline Rainbow open...
Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft Sets Theatrical Run for May
Is Aggro Dr1ft the future of cinema? Not in any quantifiable, justifiable sense. Does it have anything to say? I admire Harmony Korine using infrared images an...
Wes Anderson Teams with Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel for The Phoenician Scheme
Outside of perhaps Steven Spielberg and Janusz Kamiński, there may be no director-cinematographer collaboration that's more extensive in modern-day cinema than...
Update: Anya Taylor-Joy Hasn’t Joined Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door
Update: Sony Pictures Classics has reached out to note there was a misprint in their CinemaCon statement and Anya Taylor-Joy is not attached to the film.
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Becoming the Beast: George MacKay on Fighting for Bertrand Bonello’s Film, Learning French, and Modern Incel Culture
There's little precedent for what George MacKay does in The Beast, a multilingual production that required the English star to learn French for extended sequen...