Cannes Review: Perfect Days is Wim Wenders’ Strongest Fiction Feature in 20 Years
Wim Wenders is back, and he’s brought Lou Reed (still dead) with him. It’s not that Wenders hasn’t been making films. He has. It’s just that the only good ones...
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Cannes Review: Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped Inertly Examines the Catholic Church’s Antisemitism
For his last trick, at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio turned the 1978 Red Brigade kidnapping and assassination of Prime Minist...
Cannes Review: Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City is an Absolute Delight
Wes Anderson has done it all: India by train, Rhode Island by foot, the Mediterranean by sub, France by bike, faux-Germany by hotel, apple-orchard America by f...
Todd Haynes on the Moral Instability of May December, Criticizing Suburban Life, and Netflix
On the heels of his premiere, nine hours after Netflix bought his newest film for $11 million, Todd Haynes is a happy man, seated casually at breakfast in the ...
Cannes Review: With May December, Todd Haynes Finds a Mercurial, Humorous Perspective on a Scandal
It would be one thing for someone to have their life portrayed onscreen by an A-list actor, and another to invite that actor into their home for accuracy, to m...
Cannes Review: Martin Scorsese Triumphs with Killers of the Flower Moon
Wolves are not subtle creatures. It’s a rhetorical question: “Can you find the wolves in this picture?” Who couldn’t spot wolves among humans? They’re much sma...
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...
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.
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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.