The silences last a lifetime in The Assistant, written and directed by Kitty Green. Starring Julia Garner as the titular character, the film plays out over one...
It's hard to imagine someone better suited to take on the legacy of Gloria Steinem than Julie Taymor. Her first directorial effort in a decade, The Glorias off...
A cramped setting, an onslaught of clever dialogue and a twisty plot go a long way in Scare Me, an impressive little movie from writer/director Josh Ruben, who...
So much of what makes Promising Young Woman work so well is in what's not on screen. Far more contemplative than initial marketing might suggest, this is a rev...
Have we ever given Paul Bettany the credit he deserves? One thinks back to his stellar turns in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Reckoning,...
Early on in Ironbark, directed by Dominic Cooke, British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) realizes he's sitting at a table with both a MI6 office...
In the wake of a tragedy, who decides who gets compensated? And how much? These are the opening queries in Worth, written by Max Borenstein and directed by Sar...
Ever since Hannah Arendt coined the term “the banality of evil” in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, it’s been a phrase oft-used in an attempt to describe h...
It's a bold move to follow up a festival favorite indie film from a couple of years back with a Los Angeles-set series of vignettes punctuated by poetry. Such ...
"It's all just fucking impossible." So says Taylor Swift, in reference to being a young female in show business. Being too bold draws this criticism, too safe ...
Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.
