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Rounding Trailer: Ghostlight and Saint Frances Director Alex Thompson’s Psychological Thriller Arrives in February

Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson's deeply moving drama Ghostlight made a splash last year following its Sundance Film Festival premiere and subsequent summer...

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera Review: A Heist Thriller That Would Make Jean-Pierre Melville Proud

Ah, what a relief after the year-end self-importance of The Brutalist and Nosferatu to have some good January pulp in our filmgoing lives again. Seven years in...

“Cinema Could Be Grander”: Nickel Boys Director RaMell Ross on Perspectives, Contradictions, and True Intimacy

Nickel Boys is the film of 2024. It’s expansive yet accessible. It’s violent yet pierced with seconds of warmth. It’s an adaptation that expands Colson Whitehe...

Blake Simons’ Top 10 Films of 2024

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 2024...

The Quiet Ones Trailer Captures the Largest Heist in Danish History

Premiering at TIFF earlier this fall, Frederik Louis Hviid's thriller The Quiet Ones captures the tale of the group that pulled off the largest heist in Danish...

Radu Jude Reveals First Look at Next Two Features Dracula and Continental ’25

After a major 2024 with the wider release of his blistering satire Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (which nabbed a spot in our top 10) and the...

The Greatest Film of All-Time Returns to Theaters with 50th Anniversary Trailer for Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman

Canonized two years ago as the greatest film of all time, topping Sight and Sound's once-every-decade poll, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commer...

Adrien Brody on Pulling Personal History into The Brutalist, Overlooked Performances, and Acting with Beyoncé

Adrien Brody is the magnificent center of Brady Corbet’s intimate-yet-sprawling epic The Brutalist, giving the performance of his career as László Tóth, who em...

Exclusive: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Unraveling in New Artwork for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths

At long last, six years after Peterloo, the legendary Mike Leigh is back with one of the very best films of the year. Hard Truths––which we named one of our to...

Renate Reinsve Enters a Tangled Web In Trailer for Norway’s Oscar Entry Armand

After her 2021 breakout with The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve’s 2022 and 2023 seemed fairly quiet, but she was working on no shortage of projects ...

News

Werner Herzog to Direct Rooney and Kate Mara in Drama About “Sex-Crazed Twins”

Frederick Wiseman Hints at Retirement: “I Don’t Have the Energy”

Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve Reteam for Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord

Trailers

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Who by Fire Introduces Philippe Lesage’s Lush, Stellar Drama

Compensation Trailer: Zeinabu irene Davis’ Newly Restored Independent Cinema Landmark Arrives This February

Jonathan Majors Goes Psychotic in First Trailer for Magazine Dreams

Reviews

Sundance Review: Atropia is an Anti-War Farce That Can’t Sustain its Satire

Rotterdam Review: Lois Patiño’s Shakespeare Riff Ariel Squanders Its Intriguing Premise

Sundance Review: East of Wall is an Ordinary Tale Featuring Extraordinary Characters

Features

11 Films to See in February

New to Streaming: Sundance 2025, Sing Sing, Babygirl, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Jonathan Rosenbaum on Selling His DVD Collection, Championing Raúl Ruiz, and the Role of a Critic

The Brutalist Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic

Mike Leigh on Hard Truths, Losing Dick Pope, and the Duty of an Artist

Podcasts

The B-Side – Queen Latifah (with KT)

The B-Side – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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