This spring saw the release of Wes Anderson's ninth feature film and his second stop-motion animation, Isle of Dogs, an ode to Japanese cinema and specifica...
It’s not often we get sequels in the world of documentaries, but when the original film won the Palme d’Or and is (by far) the highest-grossing documentary ...
One of the films set to go to Cannes, but dropped due to their kerfuffle with Netflix was Hold the Dark, from Blue Ruin and Green Room director Jeremy Sauln...
"All great stories have two things in common: they’re simple, they’re not complicated, and they’re filmic. Look at all the great westerns: the story is dead...
After leading one of the most formally interesting, bold studio films of the year with Annihilation, Natalie Portman is back this fall with two festival pre...
Following up his Oscar-winning drama Son of Saul (unpopular, by at least The Academy's standards), László Nemes is facing the beast that is a sophomore effo...
Ever since Steven Spielberg set foot on the beach, directors have been attempting to recapture a similar level of thrills and artistry in the shark movie, usual...
In portraying the true story of Ron Stallworth–an African American detective who infiltrated the KKK in Colorado Springs in the 1970s–Spike Lee's BlacKkKlan...
Arriving on DVD and Digital HD today is one of the most heart-stirring, authentic films I've seen in the past year, Chloé Zhao's remarkable drama The Rider....
After a streak of five stellar features, Mia Hansen-Løve is getting ready to premiere her sixth film, Maya, at the Toronto International Film Festival. She'...
Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.
