Fast X is an incredibly dumb time at the movies. Not just in an F9 āthey took a car to spaceā kind of dumb (thereās also plenty of that, which is fine), but in...
Back in 2017, Warwick Thornton landed in Venice with a western that offered some corrective to the white-savior narratives of countless others in the genre. Sw...
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this weekās selections below and past r...
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy CinemaA New Leaf and IshtarĀ play, the former on 35mm, while a print ofĀ The Fifth Eleme...
A dramatization of true events, The Night of the 12th mines a particular subgenre of the crime picture, the āCold Caseā (its own Bush-era CBS procedural). The ...
Few stories are as gratifying as the narrative jigsaw. How to fool the viewer into believing one thing without lying about what happened? Itās difficult enough...
The various facets of the art of the heistāāfrom motivation to execution to life on the lam (or in detainment)āāmake it perennially ripe for high-stakes cinema...
When Rigoberto Duplas, the worrying conceptual artist and antagonist of Amat Escalante's new film, tells Emiliano, our steadfast lead, that the cheap glass in ...
A child conceived when Killers of the Flower Moon's first still debutedāāthat was May 10, 2021āācould now walk, or at least waddle. It's a fine image, unambigu...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...