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. Wearing cheap shorts tha...
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Immaculate Review: A Committed Sydney Sweeney Performance and Gory Finale Can’t Save This Routine Horror
Convent-set movies occupy a storied place in cinema history—one too vast to attempt summarization in this review. But it’s no matter: Immaculate stands to be a...
Free Time Review: Colin Burgess Searches for Meaning in the Modern World in Star-Making Turn
Free Time opens on an office meeting between Drew (Colin Burgess) and his boss. Drew is dissatisfied with his data-analysis position because it’s too much data...
Caleb Hammond’s Top 10 Films of 2023
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.
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Sean Price Williams on Rejecting Cynicism with The Sweet East and Making Nick Pinkerton Laugh
For the past decade-and-a-half, cinematographer Sean Price Williams has been a staple of the New York indie-film scene, lensing features for (naming just a han...
Rodrigo Moreno on His Genre-Hopping Fable The Delinquents and the Importance of Taking Storytelling Risks
The Delinquents is the sort of pleasurable movie that never feels rushed, masterfully carrying a viewer along a variety of detours over its three-plus hour run...
Justine Triet and Sandra Hüller on the Blowout Fight at the Center of Anatomy of a Fall
In Sibyl, Sandra Hüller appears at the midway point for a scene-stealing role as a director attempting (and failing) to prevent a love triangle between her two...
Cinematographer Ed Lachman on Being Pablo Larraín’s “Dance Partner” for El Conde
Cinematographer Ed Lachman doesn’t often work with new directors, but for someone he considers “the most important filmmaker in South America,” he’ll make an e...
Telluride Review: Saltburn is a Familiar, Fun Pop Thriller That Fails to Stick the Landing
It’s 2023 and the early 2000s are having a moment: blog rock is being celebrated, nü metal is back, and Emerald Fennell––perhaps recognizing this vibe shift––s...
Telluride Review: Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders is a Muddled Chronicle of the Midwest’s Most Clean-Cut Biker Gang
Using photographer Danny Lyon’s iconic The Bikeriders’ imagery as a jumping-off point, Jeff Nichols’ latest feature imagines a fictionalized Chicago motorcycle...
Caleb Hammond
Caleb Hammond is a Los Angeles-based film writer and editor. He can be reached at [email protected].