The Film Stage

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

The jealousy of unhappy couples. The pettiness of mean girls. The frustration of insecure husbands. It’s a tale as old as time that's curiously interpreted...

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

A producer of the Zellner Brothers' Sasquatch Sunset, David Harari has completed his directorial debut, the indie comedy Tooth Shop Fiasco, which will make its...

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

Taking on the art world is notoriously difficult—it’s already too ridiculous, and so the heightening of reality necessary for proper satire doesn’t work. There...

Sundance Review: Take Me Home is a Heartbreaking Indictment of a Failing Social Safety Net

Working with her sister Anna—a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a developmental disability—director Liz Sargent’s sensitive drama Take Me Home is both witty and...

Rotterdam Review: Tycoon is a Staggering Portrait of a City on Fire

In a stray moment during Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon, a young man says he stopped complaining to his landlord about the cockroaches invading his L.A. flat les...

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

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMMichael Almereyda's vampire film Nadja debuts in a long-overdue 4K restoration that play...

Sundance Review: Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Will Sweep You Off Your Feet

In dance, you have to lead with confidence. Your partner looks to you for guidance, and they require you to look back at them responsively, to move instinc...

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

A familair presence on the indie film scene in Strawberry Mansion, Booger, The Heirloom, Measures for a Funeral, Honey Bunch, and more, Canadian actress and fi...

Exit 8 Trailer: Genki Kawamura’s Acclaimed Videogame Adaptation Arrives in April

Mario, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter aren't the only videogame adaptations hittting theaters this year. Genki Kawamura's Exit 8, based on th...

“Images Are Dead”: Oliver Laxe on Sirāt and Spirituality

Note: This interview was originally published in 2025. Sirat opens on February 6, 2026. As music thumps across the desert landscape of Morocco's Atlas Mount...

News

The Criterion Collection’s May Lineup Includes Akira Kurosawa, Bob Fosse, and Joachim Trier on 4K

First Look at Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Set for August Release

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

Trailers

Legendary Director Haile Gerima Returns in Exclusive Trailer for Black Lions – Roman Wolves, Premiering at Berlinale

Two Prosecutors Trailer: Sergei Loznitsa Captures a Quest for Justice

Omaha Trailer: John Magaro Takes a Heartbreaking Road Trip

Reviews

Rotterdam Review: First Light is a Calm, Confident Debut

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Review: Gore Verbinski Finally Returns with Refreshingly Madcap Adventure

My Father’s Shadow Review: A Lovely Tale of Familial Bonding That Plays Things Safe

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Diane Keaton, The Brown Bunny, 2001 In Cinema & More

New to Streaming: Marty Supreme, Is This Thing On?, The Librarians, Happyend & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Cashiers Du Cinéma Editors on Programming Their BAM Series and Celebrating Cinema Workers

Sam Rockwell on His Most Overlooked Films and Working with Gore Verbinski

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

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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