Sundance Review: ‘Burden’ Tells of Hate Redeemed, Refuses to Simplify Its Subject

There's a clear desire to dig into the complexities of prejudice in Burden, written and directed by Andrew Heckler and based on the true story of Mike Burden. T...

Sundance Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ is an Emotional, Quiet Study of a Father-Daughter Bond

Early scenes of Leave No Trace feel like The Road. Not the movie adaptation, but Cormac McCarthy’s book, which evokes familial intimacy to an almost harrowing d...

Review: ‘The Road Movie’ is a Greatest Hits of Russian Dash-Cam Insanity

I'd like to know the regulations for automobile tires in Russia because Dmitrii Kalashnikov's dash-cam compilation documentary The Road Movie has too many viole...

Jose Solís’ Top 10 Films of 2017

In 2017 many of us went to the movies to try and find what we feared we would lose in real life....

The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2017

We count down our picks for the best films of the year....

‘Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story’ and the Last Gasp of the Hollywood Spoof

Released a decade ago today, Walk Hard may be one of the last true spoof movies made by funny people who actually gave a damn....

Review: ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ is a Hollow, Half-Hearted Western

Some obligatory credit is due to those ambitious (or, depending on the results, naive) enough to establish their name as a feature film director in 2017 on the ...

DOC NYC Review: ‘The Iron Triangle’ is Blighted by Too Little of “The Little Guy”

Following up on a landscape previously documented in Ramin Bahrani’s brilliant narrative feature Chop Shop, directors Prudence Katze and William Lehman chronicl...

‘Justice League’ Review: Zack Snyder’s Disjointed DC Teamup Distracts with Spectacle

The great millstone around Justice League's neck is the uneven quality of the films that have preceded it, but it's also the thing working in its favor. Here we...

Stephen Cone on ‘Princess Cyd,’ Film Twitter, and the Economics of Indie Filmmaking

We talk to the writer-director about his filmmaking process, Marilynne Robinson’s sex life, and learning from (and disagreeing with) Armond White....