The Film Stage

Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen on The Assessment, Food Fights, and How Sci-Fi Reflects the Present

Sci-fi is the perfect playground to mirror the state of our own world in heightened situations. The future is fertile territory to take a modern concern, twist...

The Ballad of Wallis Island Reviw: Comedy Strums a Charming Story of Moving On

You know when you hear a song and it transports you back to an era or a memory or a moment? It’s this involuntary mental reflex that can be marvelous, painful,...

Harmony Korine Details New Animated Features The Trap and Twinkle Twinkle

Just ten years ago Harmony Korine told Marc Maron that filmmaking is so exhausting it can only demand extended breaks. Which makes his recent run––beginning wi...

Pavements Trailer: Alex Ross Perry’s Ambitious Hybrid Feature Pays Tribute to an Iconic Indie Band

Six years since his last solo directing feature, Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry returned to the world of rock in a very different way with Pavements. A tribute to ...

Andrey Zvyagintsev Sets Next Feature with Minotaur

With it being eight years since his last feature Loveless, we've long been awaiting the return of Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev. After recovering from a ...

Secret Mall Apartment Review: Artists Make a Home in the Belly of the Gentrification Beast

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 SXSW coverage. Secret Mall Apartment is now in theaters. Shedding light on a quirky 2007 stor...

SXSW Review: Fucktoys is a Timely Critique of Capitalism with a Grindhouse Spirit

Playing like the kinkier granddaughter of Russ Meyers’ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys has an axe to grind, and then some. At its co...

David Lynch Spoke to Naomi Watts and Laura Dern About New Project Last Fall: “He Was Not, In Any Way, Done”

It's now been just over two months since we lost one of the great artists of our time. In the weeks following David Lynch's shocking death, many have found sol...

NYC Weekend Watch: The Quiet Man, João César Monteiro, René Clair & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaMartin Scorsese has programmed Living, Breathing New York, which continues with ...

New to Streaming: Anora, Armand, Sing Sing, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, Baby Invasion & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

News

Woody Allen’s Debut Novel What’s with Baum? Arrives In September

NYC Weekend Watch: Spike Lee, Tsai Ming-liang, The French Connection & More

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon Set Fall Releases

Trailers

A Surreal Journey Begins in Exclusive Trailer for Augusto Sandino’s A Vanishing Fog

The Naked Gun Teaser: Akiva Schaffer and Liam Neeson Reboot the Spoof Comedy

An Eerie Story Unfolds in Exclusive Trailer for The Gullspång Miracle

Reviews

Warfare Review: An Odd Beast of a Combat Procedural

Gazer Review: A Hypnotic, Distinct Directorial Debut

Freaky Tales Review: A Violent Intersection of ‘80s Oakland Underdogs Lacking Bite

Features

Posterized April 2025: April, The Ugly Stepsister, Emergent City & More

New to Streaming: Black Bag, The Actor, The Monkey, Jacques Rivette & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Charting the Conflicts of American Democracy Through Henry Fonda’s Career

Drowning Dry Director Laurynas Bareiša on Finding Comedy in Tragedy, Nicolas Roeg, and the Things We Can’t Process

“Cinema, for Me, Is Like a Big Adventure”: Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour, Cigarettes, and Sunglasses

Podcasts

Emulsion Episode Three: Cinema Guild’s Edward McCarry on Shinji Somai and Love Hotel

Remembering Val Kilmer

The B-Side Ep. 158 – Powell and Pressburger (with Katie Walsh)

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