The Film Stage

Sundance Review: Ghost in the Machine Lays Out the Evils on Which A.I. is Built

What exactly is artificial intelligence? Where does it come from? And precisely how powerful is (or will) it become? Valerie Veatch's documentary Ghost in the ...

First Look at Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden Starring Virginie Efira

Following up Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and his Oscar-winning Drive My Car with Evil Does Not Exist, which was shot in secret, more info is coming together f...

Sundance Review: Aanikoobijigan Demands a Necessary Reclamation

Even before his campaign for the removal of indigenous people from their land in the 1800s, Thomas Jefferson was pillaging burial grounds under the guise o...

Sundance Review: Public Access is a Kaleidoscopic Celebration of Creativity

A kaleidoscopic celebration of creativity and inquiry into the boundaries of free speech, David Shadrack Smith’s Public Access revisits the birth of cable tele...

Exclusive Trailer for Saša Vajda’s Berlinale Premiere The Lights, They Fall

Kicking off next week, the 2026 Berlinale will bring no shortage of new discoveries, and one on our radar is the feature debut from Saša Vajda. The lights, the...

Scare Out Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Spy Thriller Starring Jackson Yee Arrives This Month

After directing six (!) new films between 2020 and 2024, Zhang Yimou took a bit of a breather last year, but he's now back this month with a new spy thriller. ...

Sundance Review: Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is David Wain’s Hilarious Ode to LA

As the world continues fermenting its vile culture, the gang behind The State and Wet Hot American Summer is back to save you from the merciless onslaught of b...

Sundance Review: If I Go Will They Miss Me Finds Poetic Beauty in Coming of Age

Finding poetic beauty in the quotidian, Walter Thompson-Hernández’s If I Go Will They Miss Me centers on coming of age in housing projects of southern Los Ange...

Sundance Review: Hanging by a Wire is a Brisk Docu-Thriller Lacking Depth

A brisk docu-thriller that could do more with the richness of the players it chronicles, Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s Hanging by a Wire is not without thrills and huma...

Sundance Review: Hot Water Offers a Distinct Take on Familiar Genre

Taking a genre familiar to Sundance audiences and creating something distinct, if not entirely original, Ramzi Bashour’s road-trip drama Hot Water finds subtle...

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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