Cannes Review: Monster is a Thrilling Reminder of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Powers
Few stories are as gratifying as the narrative jigsaw. How to fool the viewer into believing one thing without lying about what happened? It’s difficult enough...
Luke Hicks
Cannes Review: Steve McQueen’s First Documentary Occupied City Forges Disparate Connections with the Horrific Past
New approaches to cinema are few and far between––as rare as a ticket to the lone Killers of the Flower Moon press screening at the 76th Cannes Film Festival––...
Champions Review: Bobby Farrelly Returns With Formulaically Dull Sports Movie
Bobby Farelly’s been out of the feature game for almost ten years. After a lucrative 20-year career writing, directing, and producing together, brothers Bobby ...
Luke Hicks’ Top 10 Films of 2022
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
It w...
Luca Guadagnino on Bones and All, Nurturing Imagination, and the Need for Love
On tour across high-profile fall festivals since its premiere at Venice in early September, Luca Guadagnino’s teen cannibal romance Bones and All lands in thea...
NYFF Review: The Eternal Daughter Finds Tilda Swinton in a Remarkable Metanarrative
In the tradition of Okja and Hail, Caesar!, writer-producer-director Joanna Hogg has gifted the world with two Tildas (Swinton, that is) in one film. Just shy ...
Moonage Daydream Director Brett Morgen on Meeting David Bowie and Capturing the Artist’s Spirit
Back in May, Moonage Daydream – the hypnotic, experimental documentary abstraction that encapsulates David Bowie’s life, art, and philosophy – blew the top off...
Venice Review: The Son Revels in Emotional Exploitation
Frenchman Florian Zeller began as a novelist in his early twenties, quickly moved into a bright career as a playwright and theater director, and now finds hims...
Venice Review: The Banshees of Inisherin Finds Humor and Meaning in the Mundane
“When push comes to shove, we will always return to good chats,” Colin Farrell said at a press conference before the premiere of The Banshees of Inisherin. He’...
Venice Review: Don’t Worry Darling is the Movie Version of a Fake Tan
Where better to set a paradisal experimental housing development than Palm Springs? The sun is always shining and the empty desert expands as far as the eye ca...
Luke Hicks
A New York City film journalist by way of Austin, TX, Luke is an arts enthusiast who earned his master’s studying film philosophy and ethics at Duke. He thinks every occasion should include one of the following: coffee, whiskey, tea, gin, beer, or olives.