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 list...
A biography told with startling focus and immediacy, The Testament of Ann Lee documents the life of the founder of the Shakers in the 18th century. Alternating...
Robert Grainier lives a narrow life of hard work and sudden, inexplicable tragedy. As played by Joel Edgerton in Train Dreams, he's someone who looks on from a...
Exceeding all expectations, Sinners became a critical and box-office hit when it was released this past spring. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, the film ...
A mother and two daughters move into a cramped apartment in Taipei, a tentative step towards financial independence. Their struggle to survive provides the bac...
On my last night at the Morelia International Film Festival, dinner took place at Lu, a restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine. Over rollos de jicama and...
In 2008, Juliette Binoche paired with dancer Akram Khan for in-i, an experimental dance work about a couple's dissolving relationship. They performed the piece...
One of the most anticipated films in the newly established Competition section at this year's Busan International Film Festival was Resurrection, an epic look ...
While preparing her feature-directing debut, Taiwanese actor Shu Qi was working on a screenplay that troubled and confused her. "I got stuck," she said at a Bu...
Love is a commodity in Materialists, the second feature from Past Lives writer-director Celine Song. Dakota Johnson plays Lucy, a matchmaker for an elite datin...
