Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 TIFF coverage. Friendship opens in theaters on May 9.
The level of enjoyment audience members...
We are now well into 2025, and our latest column features several books that will likely rank among the year’s finest and most important releases. Plus, this c...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 TIFF coverage. On Swift Horses opens in theaters on April 25.
It's been some time since we've...
Our first roundup of 2025 features some major releases; given the state of things, we should be very thankful for that. Note that our next column will include ...
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.
Each...
This is our final round-up before the end of 2024, and it’s a good one. There are plenty of gift ideas lurking here––some choices to enjoy during time off, too...
It seems appropriate to read about some of our greatest filmmakers during the fall. (Festival season! Prestige pics! Megalopolis mania!) Plus, a guide to cinem...
Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down is an endurance test with no payoff. Opening with a jarring car crash on a windy road in rural Ireland, the film soon adds...
On paper, there are few filmmakers who seem less-suited to the rigors of a project like Eden than Ron Howard. This is the grim story, after all, of real-life i...
“I’m older––I’m not old,” says Shelley, the longest-term performer in a past-its-prime Las Vegas revue. She is played by Pamela Anderson, the international ico...
Christopher Schobert is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic who has written for numerous outlets worldwide and covered film festivals in Toronto, New York, and London. Currently, he writes reviews and features for The Film Stage, writes a monthly cinema column for Buffalo Spree magazine, and discusses film as a regular guest on the Shredd and Ragan radio show on Buffalo’s 97 Rock.