The Film Stage

Left-Handed Girl Director Shih-Ching Tsou on Collaborating with Sean Baker and Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes

A mother and two daughters move into a cramped apartment in Taipei, a tentative step towards financial independence. Their struggle to survive provides the bac...

12 Films to See in December

As we enter the final month of the year, we'll be sharing an extensive look at the best in cinema of 2025 (bookmark here), but first, let's look at the highlig...

Mother Mary Trailer: David Lowery Returns with Pop Melodrama Starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel

Reteaming with A24 after A Ghost Story and The Green Knight, writer-director David Lowery returns next year with Mother Mary, an epic pop melodrama that brings...

Marty Supreme Review: Timothée Chalamet Reaches a New Pinnacle in Josh Safdie’s Propulsive Drama

The opening credits of Marty Supreme features retro animation of a sperm fertilizing a giant egg; as Alphaville’s “Forever Young” blares over the soundtrac...

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2025

Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold new voices. It's why we venture to festiv...

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2025 Includes Afternoons of Solitude, One Battle After Another, and Nouvelle Vague

I blinked once and it was time for end-of-2025 lists. Few things herald the onslaught quite so seriously as Cahiers du cinéma's annual countdown, which has cha...

New to Streaming: Blossoms Shanghai, Blue Moon Bugonia, Urchin, Left-Handed Girl & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

NYC Weekend Watch: Abel Ferrara’s Cat Chaser

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaOur presentation of the uber-rare director's cut of Abel Ferrara's Cat Chaser sc...

Mr. Scorsese Editor David Bartner on Capturing the Emotional Heart of a Legendary Career

For a career as diverse, singular, and influential as Martin Scorsese's, the task of summarizing it in even five hours is a mammoth task, making director Rebec...

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. ...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

The Chronology of Water Review: Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness

La Grazia Review: Paolo Sorrentino Struggles to Match Toni Servillo’s Talents

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Features

Posterized December 2025: Resurrection, No Other Choice, The Plague & More

New to Streaming: Jay Kelly, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Stranger Eyes, The Family McMullen & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Safe & More

Interviews

Reflection in a Dead Diamond Directors on James Bond, Satoshi Kon, and Crafting a Cinematic Orgasm

Edward Burns on The Family McMullen, His Underseen Films, and Getting Tom Petty to Score His Second Movie

Sinners Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw on Pulling Off the Film’s Most Difficult Shots and Christopher Nolan’s Advice

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

Emulsion Ep. 18 – Carlo Chatrian on the Tokyo International Film Festival and Future of Cinema Culture

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Left-Handed Girl Director Shih-Ching Tsou on Collaborating with Sean Baker and Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes

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The Best Directorial Debuts of 2025

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2025 Includes Afternoons of Solitude, One Battle After Another, and Nouvelle Vague

New to Streaming: Blossoms Shanghai, Blue Moon Bugonia, Urchin, Left-Handed Girl & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Abel Ferrara’s Cat Chaser

Mr. Scorsese Editor David Bartner on Capturing the Emotional Heart of a Legendary Career

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)