Logan Kenny

A Compassionate Spy Review: Steve James Crafts a Slippery Examination of Noble Betrayal

The latest film from acclaimed documentarian Steve James, A Compassionate Spy, comes with a fascinating subject: the spy who leaked nuclear information from th...

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy Review: Nancy Buirski Unpacks the Cultural Impact of a Masterpiece

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy professes to be something more than just a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: an ext...

A Life on the Farm Review: Portrait of Experimental Filmmaker & Farmer Harvests Judgemental Cruelty

A Life on the Farm is centered on the story of Charles Carson, a farmer who made experimental, absurdist home movies in his spare time. This information is imm...

Fire Island Review: Andrew Ahn’s Joyful Queer Retelling of Pride and Prejudice

Over the last few years Andrew Ahn has cemented himself as one of the most promising talents in American independent cinema. His first feature, the underrated ...

Gagarine Directors on Dreaming of Space and the Otherworldly Vision of Leos Carax

Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh's remarkable drama Gagarine is one of the best films of 2022. Centered on Youri, a 17-year-old engineer who is likely on the s...

Logan Kenny’s Top 10 Films of 2021

Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2021, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 2021...

Heartbreak and Grief in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan’s work is obsessed with the anguish of grief and cosmic feelings of heartbreak. Whether or not they are explicitly about grieving, a sense o...

Pig Review: Nicolas Cage Hits Career Highs in Affecting Minimalist Drama

Pig will be a victim of expectations. While marketed as Nicolas Cage’s equivalent to a darkly comic and surreal John Wick, and though a study of the desire for...

Tribeca Review: Wild Men Brings Dark Scandinavian Humor to a Flawed Portrait of Masculinity

A subject many artists are irrevocably drawn towards, we’ve seen numerous films capture different forms of masculinity over the decades. Recently, Wildlife fo...

Glasgow Review: Gagarine Vividly Offers One of the Greatest Representations of Autism in Cinema

A common trend amongst autistic people is the desire to escape, to exist outside of ourselves and transport into another realm. There is this consistent appeal...

News

First Look at Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu Brings Murnau to the Modern Age

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Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for the Museum of the Moving Image’s Todd Haynes Retrospective

Tony Leung and Andy Lau Square Off In New, English-Subtitled Trailer for The Goldfinger

U.S. Trailer for Germany’s Oscar Entry The Teachers’ Lounge

Reviews

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Review: A Noble if Too-Clinical Portrait of Women Talking

Thessaloniki Review: Camping du Lac is a Bewitching Ode to Stories and Storytellers

Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain Review: Laughs Wear Thin in Tired Adventure

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: World Cinema Project, Peeping Tom, The Long Day Closes, the Before Trilogy & More

New to Streaming: Oppenheimer, Afire, Stamped from the Beginning & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Rodrigo Prieto on Martin Scorsese’s Method and Formatting Killers of the Flower Moon and Barbie for IMAX

Alma Pöysti on the Soft Smiles and Sad Songs of Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves

Hirokazu Kore-eda on Why Monster is Not Like Rashomon, Queer Storytelling, and Ryuichi Sakamoto

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Ep. 521 – The Holdovers (with Gerald Peary)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 520 – The Killer (with Noah Gittell)

The B-Side – Vietnam War Movies (with Brian Raftery)

Logan Kenny

A Compassionate Spy Review: Steve James Crafts a Slippery Examination of Noble Betrayal

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy Review: Nancy Buirski Unpacks the Cultural Impact of a Masterpiece

A Life on the Farm Review: Portrait of Experimental Filmmaker & Farmer Harvests Judgemental Cruelty

Fire Island Review: Andrew Ahn’s Joyful Queer Retelling of Pride and Prejudice

Gagarine Directors on Dreaming of Space and the Otherworldly Vision of Leos Carax

Logan Kenny’s Top 10 Films of 2021

Heartbreak and Grief in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan

Pig Review: Nicolas Cage Hits Career Highs in Affecting Minimalist Drama

Tribeca Review: Wild Men Brings Dark Scandinavian Humor to a Flawed Portrait of Masculinity

Glasgow Review: Gagarine Vividly Offers One of the Greatest Representations of Autism in Cinema

Logan Kenny