The Film Stage

Death of a Unicorn Review: A Mythical, Predictable Genre Mash-Up

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 SXSW coverage. Death of a Unicorn opens in theaters on March 28 from A24. A film with a few s...

Emulsion Episode Two – Alan Rudolph on Choose Me

This week consecrates a major turn in the 50-year career of Alan Rudolph, which began as an assistant to and screenwriter for Robert Altman before transitionin...

Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen on The Assessment, Food Fights, and How Sci-Fi Reflects the Present

Sci-fi is the perfect playground to mirror the state of our own world in heightened situations. The future is fertile territory to take a modern concern, twist...

The Ballad of Wallis Island Reviw: Comedy Strums a Charming Story of Moving On

You know when you hear a song and it transports you back to an era or a memory or a moment? It’s this involuntary mental reflex that can be marvelous, painful,...

Harmony Korine Details New Animated Features The Trap and Twinkle Twinkle

Just ten years ago Harmony Korine told Marc Maron that filmmaking is so exhausting it can only demand extended breaks. Which makes his recent run––beginning wi...

Pavements Trailer: Alex Ross Perry’s Ambitious Hybrid Feature Pays Tribute to an Iconic Indie Band

Six years since his last solo directing feature, Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry returned to the world of rock in a very different way with Pavements. A tribute to ...

Andrey Zvyagintsev Sets Next Feature with Minotaur

With it being eight years since his last feature Loveless, we've long been awaiting the return of Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev. After recovering from a ...

Secret Mall Apartment Review: Artists Make a Home in the Belly of the Gentrification Beast

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 SXSW coverage. Secret Mall Apartment is now in theaters. Shedding light on a quirky 2007 stor...

SXSW Review: Fucktoys is a Timely Critique of Capitalism with a Grindhouse Spirit

Playing like the kinkier granddaughter of Russ Meyers’ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys has an axe to grind, and then some. At its co...

David Lynch Spoke to Naomi Watts and Laura Dern About New Project Last Fall: “He Was Not, In Any Way, Done”

It's now been just over two months since we lost one of the great artists of our time. In the weeks following David Lynch's shocking death, many have found sol...

News

Watch Martin Scorsese and Willem Dafoe Discuss The Last Temptation of Christ in a New Conversation

Harmony Korine Details New Animated Features The Trap and Twinkle Twinkle

Andrey Zvyagintsev Sets Next Feature with Minotaur

Trailers

Bring Her Back Trailer: Sally Hawkins Leads the Next Horror Feature From Talk to Me Directors

One Battle After Another Trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio is on the Run in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Action Epic

April Trailer: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Mesmerizing Venice Winner Arrives, Of Course, in April

Reviews

Henry Fonda for President Review: The Dying Dream of a Better America

The Encampments Review: An Inspiring, Essential Portrait of Collective Action

Tendaberry Review: A Soulful Brooklyn-Set City Symphony

Features

13 Films to See in April

13 Films to See at New Directors/New Films 2025

NYC Weekend Watch: Manoel de Oliveira

Interviews

Drowning Dry Director Laurynas Bareiša on Finding Comedy in Tragedy, Nicolas Roeg, and the Things We Can’t Process

“Cinema, for Me, Is Like a Big Adventure”: Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour, Cigarettes, and Sunglasses

Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen on The Assessment, Food Fights, and How Sci-Fi Reflects the Present

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 158 – Powell and Pressburger (with Katie Walsh)

Emulsion Episode Two – Alan Rudolph on Choose Me

The B-Side – Amy Irving and Peter Riegert on Crossing Delancey

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Death of a Unicorn Review: A Mythical, Predictable Genre Mash-Up

Emulsion Episode Two – Alan Rudolph on Choose Me

Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen on The Assessment, Food Fights, and How Sci-Fi Reflects the Present

The Ballad of Wallis Island Reviw: Comedy Strums a Charming Story of Moving On

Harmony Korine Details New Animated Features The Trap and Twinkle Twinkle

Pavements Trailer: Alex Ross Perry’s Ambitious Hybrid Feature Pays Tribute to an Iconic Indie Band

Andrey Zvyagintsev Sets Next Feature with Minotaur

Secret Mall Apartment Review: Artists Make a Home in the Belly of the Gentrification Beast

SXSW Review: Fucktoys is a Timely Critique of Capitalism with a Grindhouse Spirit

David Lynch Spoke to Naomi Watts and Laura Dern About New Project Last Fall: “He Was Not, In Any Way, Done”