The Film Stage

Sundance Review: Plainclothes is a Riveting Paranoia Thriller About Coming Out

Set years before George Michael’s arrest and inspired by the bathroom raids that provoked a moral panic in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1963, Carmen Emmi’s Syracuse-set...

Sundance Review: By Design is a Challenging Look at the Broke and Bougie

Offering a twist on the body-swap genre, Amanda Kramer’s Sundance Next entry By Design feels, at first glance, more suited to the stage or gallery than cinema....

Isabelle Huppert to Lead Ulrike Ottinger’s Vampire Film The Blood Countess

An auteur-actor pairing to nearly match last week's word of Johnnie To and Tony Leung comes via Variety, who tell us Ulrike Ottinger will direct Isabelle Huppe...

Rotterdam Review: Takashi Miike’s Blazing Fists is a Pulpy Sports Crime Movie

It's hard to say what's more endearing about Takashi Miike these days: that the director of Audition and Ichi The Killer is still out there producing work at t...

Sundance Review: LUZ is an Emotionally Detached Mood Piece Searching for Connection

With an evocative opening-credits sequence as the camera swirls through a virtual landscape of neon signs and lights, one might think they are witnessing the b...

Sundance Review: Seeds is a Beautiful, Haunting Documentary about the Wisdom of Elders

Evoking Gordon Park's black-and-white photographs of the New Deal Era, cinematographer Brittany Shyne’s powerful debut feature Seeds offers a portrait of a dis...

Sundance Review: In Omaha, a Desperate Dad Takes His Kids On an Unexpected Road Trip

Early one morning, a single father and widower (John Magaro)––credited as Dad––wakes up his perceptive nine-year-old Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and mischievous ...

Sundance Review: André Is an Idiot is a Noble Document of a Dumb Decision

There is an unbridled honesty to André Is an Idiot that is admirable, even if all of it doesn't really work. It's a simple, stark subject for a documentary: ac...

Sundance Review: Twinless Doubles Up Dylan O’Brien in Unpredictable, Dark Comedy

Twinless starts like a prototypical Sundance movie––grim and serious, plus unexpected levity. That’s the general formula for a festival that might as well have...

Sundance Review: Together Traps Alison Brie and Dave Franco in Relationship Horror

Early in Michael Shanks’ directorial debut Together, Millie (Alison Brie) warns her boyfriend Tim (Dave Franco) that if they don’t “split up” now, it’s only go...

News

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Trailers

Tsui Hark Returns In U.S. Trailer for Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants

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

Reviews

Sundance Review: Kiss of the Spider Woman Finds Jennifer Lopez in Top Form

Sundance Review: Ricky is a Portrait of a Tender Man in a Harsh World

Sundance Review: Middletown Remembers a High School Class That Held Up Truth to Power

Features

Posterized February 2025: Armand, Universal Language, The Monkey & More

New to Streaming: All We Imagine as Light, Matt and Mara, Suze, Jazzy & More

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Interviews

Bill Morrison on His Oscar-Nominated Short Incident and the Systemic Problems of Policing

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

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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