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...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Plainclothes opens in theaters on September 19.
Set years before George Mi...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 SXSW coverage. The Baltimorons opens in theaters on September 5, 2025.
A return to form f...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 SXSW coverage. The Threesome opens in theaters on September 5, 2025.
A big swing and nearly a...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2023 SXSW coverage. Americana opens in theaters on August 15.
Sometimes it can be fun to watch a s...
A workmanlike procedural that does more to suggest a Clint Eastwood drama than the kind of unhinged thriller one's come to associate with great auteur Takashi ...
Oscar Boyson’s debut feature Our Hero Balthazar is a big swing that mostly works: an uncompromising satire about the crisis facing young men in America. Mascul...
A challenging film to both review and market without spoiling, Paul Andrew Williams’ Dragonfly largely succeeds because it never quite telegraphs where it’s go...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Tribeca coverage. Vulcanizadora opens in theaters on May 2.
Like the punk-rock cousin of ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 SXSW coverage. Dead Mail is now on Shudder.
Blending found footage and what appears to be gra...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
