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The 30 Best 2025 Films We’ve Already Seen

We don't want to overwhelm you, but while you're catching up with our top 50 films of 2024, more cinematic greatness awaits in 2025. Ahead of our 100 most-anti...

The Game Is Out of Joint In Trailer for Grand Theft Hamlet

Some words don't quite congeal. "Honest thief." "Jumbo shrimp." You remember learning these things in 7th-grade English. We could add to this canon Grand Theft...

Mitchell Beaupre’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Refl...

MUBI’s January 2025 Lineup Includes Close Your Eyes, Pepe, Luca Guadagnino, Charli XCX & More

MUBI has unveiled their first streaming lineup of the new year and they are kicking things off in a major way with the streaming debut of Víctor Erice's master...

Gazer Trailer: Paranoia Thriller and Cannes Selection Arrives This February

Premiering earlier this year at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Gazer marks the directorial debut of Ryan J. Sloan, who co-wrote and produced the paranoia thrille...

Exclusive: ’90s Sundance Gem Girls Town Gets 4K Restoration, Trailer, and Theatrical Release

While the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is just around the corner, January also brings an opportunity to revisit one of the highlights that made a splash nearly ...

Death of a Unicorn Trailer: John Carpenter Scores Dark Comedy Starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega

It's not often that the composer of a movie is our key reason to see a film, but such is the case for a new A24 dark comedy featuring a score by none other tha...

The Best Undistributed Films of 2024

After highlighting the 50 best films you may have missed this year and our overall top 50 films of 2024, today we put our spotlight on those that still need a ...

Alessandro Nivola on The Brutalist, The Room Next Door, and the “Total Mayhem” of You Were Never Really Here

While he's been making a strong impression in films from the likes of John Woo and Nicolas Winding Refn for the last three decades, 2024 marks a major year for...

Black Bag Trailer: Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett Play Spy Games for Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh is kicking off 2025 with quite a busy streak. His 2024 Sundance premiere, the ghost story Presence, arrives at the end of January while his n...

News

John Hillcoat Reveals Cormac McCarthy’s “Faustian” Vision for Blood Meridian Film

MUBI’s January 2025 Lineup Includes Close Your Eyes, Pepe, Luca Guadagnino, Charli XCX & More

The Criterion Channel’s January 2025 Lineup Features David Bowie, Nicole Kidman, Sean Baker & More

Trailers

Love Me Trailer: Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Find Romance Across Billions of Years

The Game Is Out of Joint In Trailer for Grand Theft Hamlet

Gazer Trailer: Paranoia Thriller and Cannes Selection Arrives This February

Reviews

From Ground Zero Review: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Is a Sobering Anthology Capturing Life During Wartime

Santosh Review: U.K.’s Oscar Entry is a Taut Exploration of Gender Politics and Police Corruption

Laceno D’Oro Review: Pastoral Hybrid Doc Savanna and the Mountain Confronts An Urgent Struggle with Humor and Charm

Features

The Best Movie Posters of 2024

10 Films to See in January

Christian Gallichio’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Interviews

The Brutalist Cinematographer Lol Crawley on VistaVision, the 70mm Experience, and Brady Corbet’s Flexibility

Santosh Director Sandhya Suri on Quiet Characters, Economic Filmmaking, and Emotional Chess

Guy Pearce on the Egoism of The Brutalist and Why Brady Corbet’s Epic Earns Its Runtime

Podcasts

The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000)

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The 30 Best 2025 Films We’ve Already Seen

The Game Is Out of Joint In Trailer for Grand Theft Hamlet

Mitchell Beaupre’s Top 10 Films of 2024

MUBI’s January 2025 Lineup Includes Close Your Eyes, Pepe, Luca Guadagnino, Charli XCX & More

Gazer Trailer: Paranoia Thriller and Cannes Selection Arrives This February

Exclusive: ’90s Sundance Gem Girls Town Gets 4K Restoration, Trailer, and Theatrical Release

Death of a Unicorn Trailer: John Carpenter Scores Dark Comedy Starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega

The Best Undistributed Films of 2024

Alessandro Nivola on The Brutalist, The Room Next Door, and the “Total Mayhem” of You Were Never Really Here

Black Bag Trailer: Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett Play Spy Games for Steven Soderbergh