45 years after The Exorcist terrified audiences across the world, William Friedkin is returning the world of spiritual entities with a new feature, this tim...
Documentaries about Great Men isn't exactly what I imagine is at the top of cinema's current priorities, but Focus Features is banking that audiences will w...
Now with a fresh new title, going from Sicario 2: Soldado to Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Sony is really hoping audiences think of the sequel to Denis Ville...
One of the best debuts of the past few years was Marielle Heller's The Diary of a Teenage Girl and this fall, the director will make her return with the Mel...
With his stellar drama After the Storm getting a U.S. release last year, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda will likely return to Cannes this year with a n...
While his most ambitious film was also his most disappointing, Alexander Payne’s Downsizing still deserves a look if you missed it in theaters. Thankfully, ...
The French New Wave has been immeasurably influential for the past many decades of emerging filmmakers. The appreciation has recently taken on a new level a...
Having worked with Derek Jarman, Wes Anderson, Sally Potter, Luca Guadagnino, Bong Joon-ho, David Fincher, Lynne Ramsay, the Coens, and the list goes on, Ti...
If comedy is best pulled from trauma, there are few moments in one’s life more distressingly rich to mine from than middle school. With his directorial debu...
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.
