Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
All ...
Coming-of-age tales are a genre with little recent innovation. Yet Singaporean-American filmmaker Siyou Tan finds remarkable specificity and novelty in her Sin...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Ghost Trail opens in theaters on May 30.
The wars in Gaza and Ukraine have d...
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
The ...
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
Ther...
Films with child protagonists present a unique tonal challenge. If overly saccharine whimsy can alienate an adult audience, having precocious kids delivering m...
From its opening moments, an Orwelleian gloom envelopes Iranian director Farhad Delaram’s debut feature Achilles. The prying forces of an authoritarian governm...
Right from its opening moments, Austrian director Elisabeth Scharang’s Woodland is visually arresting, commanding one's attention. Which is fortunate as the fi...
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve has ably demonstrated that a catty feud between theater critics and actresses is crackling subject matter for witty, adult...
Using animation as the medium for feature-length documentaries is a fairly novel development, Waltz with Bashir and Flee being notable examples of internationa...
Ankit is a writer and film critic based in North America and has written about films for over a decade, including coverage at Cannes, Berlin, New York, and Toronto film festivals.
