The Film Stage

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...

Pillion Review: A Provocative, Funny, and Touching Anti-Romance

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Pillion opens in theaters on February 6. It wouldn’t be Cannes without a...

Sirat Review: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Trance Is a Grand, Adventurous Achievement

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Sirat opens on February 6, 2026. For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver...

The President’s Cake Review: All the Ingredients of a Breakthrough Directorial Debut

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The President's Cake opens in theaters on February 6. Among the best thi...

News

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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

The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films, Reviewed

The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films, Reviewed

The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films, Reviewed

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

“We Cut 95% of It Out”: Matt Johnson on Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Constant Re-Editing, and Season 3

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

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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