The Film Stage

The President’s Cake Review: All the Ingredients of a Breakthrough Directorial Debut

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The President's Cake opens in theaters on February 6. Among the best thi...

Scarlet Review: Mamoru Hosoda Simplistically Adapts a Timeless Tale

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 NYFF coverage. Scarlet opens in theaters on February 6. Across two decades of crafting animat...

10 Films to See in February

The shortest month of the year has a handful of cinematic highlights, including numerous films that qualified for awards last year but are now getting official...

Sundance Review: Ethan Hawke is Good as Gold in The Weight

Gold is such an apt metaphor for greed. It’s shiny, it’s heavy, it’s superficial, and it’s obtained through someone’s hard labor. That labor is carried on ...

Sundance Review: Rock Springs Tells an Ambitious Ghost Tale

Rock Springs works within a familiar genre framework––a family moves to a home in a town filled with strange people and is promptly haunted by spirits––to prob...

Todd Haynes to Shoot De Noche with Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez Starting Next Month

After earning some of the finest acclaim of his career for May December, Todd Haynes was all set to embark on a 1930s, Los Angeles-set noir romance back in the...

David Lynch’s Scripts for Unrecorded Night, Which Was to Star Toby Jones, to Be Published

It's now been over a year since the great David Lynch departed this Earth, and with his passing he left a number of unrealized projects. The major one was Unre...

Sundance Review: Shame and Money is a Pressure Cooker Drama About the Crushing Demands of Capitalism

An exacting, well-articulated portrait of a Kosovan family in crisis as they attempt to make ends meet, Shame and Money confronts anxieties in a life drown...

Sundance Review: Jaripeo is an Immersive Portrait of Mexico’s Queer Rodeo Culture

There’s always been something sexy about the image of the cowboy, which has been praised as a portrait of good, old-fashioned masculinity as much as it’s been ...

A Scenario Multiplies In First Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s The Day She Returns

A Hong Sangsoo Berlinale premiere is no surprising development, but the first details on his 34th feature, The Day She Returns, are particularly exciting. Not ...

News

Isabelle Huppert is The Blood Countess in Exclusive Poster for Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlinale Premiere

David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino Unite in First Trailer for The Adventures of Cliff Booth

NYC Weekend Watch: Nadja, Seoul After Dark, Tenement Stories & More

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Michael Glover Smith’s Hekla Captures an Artist’s Day

Tooth Shop Fiasco Exclusive Trailer: Sasquatch Sunset Producer David Harari Makes Directorial Debut

Love Conquers Death in First Trailer for Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover

Reviews

Rotterdam Review: With Tokyo Taxi, Yoji Yamada Cruises Down Well-Traveled Roads

Sundance Review: Wicker Audaciously Contemplates the Self-Destructive Perils of Jealousy

Sundance Review: The Gallerist Is Too Referential to Properly Satirize the Art World

Features

New to Streaming: The Secret Agent, Hamnet, Boys Go to Jupiter, The Plague & More

Posterized February 2026: Wuthering Heights, Pillion, My Father’s Shadow & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“I Don’t Want to Lose the City We Have”: Noah Segan on The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

“I Still Feel Like an Outcast”: Michael Almereyda on Nadja, Peter Fonda, David Lynch’s Fantômas, and Zero K

Pillion Director Harry Lighton on Portraying Realistic Sex and Rethinking Queer Narratives

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 175 – Rachel McAdams

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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