The Film Stage

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...

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

January 2025 could mark a bleak month for very specific reasons, but in that month one can watch a nicely curated collection of David Bowie's best performances...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Pacino Remembers, Clinical Cronenberg, De Palma on De Palma & More

This is our final round-up before the end of 2024, and it’s a good one. There are plenty of gift ideas lurking here––some choices to enjoy during time off, too...

Enter an Expansive World in Exclusive U.S. Trailer and Poster for Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s Eat the Night

One of the most distinctly directed debut films of was Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel's strange sci-fi wonder Jessica Forever. Six years later, the duo fi...

Warfare Trailer: Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Capture the Horrors of Battle in Real-Time

Earlier this year, Civil War proved Alex Garland wasn't so much interested in the politics of a divided country, rather curious about the questions of morality...

Endless Summer Syndrome Review: An Incest Drama With Depth

In a much-clipped moment from his Criterion Closet video, philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek pulls a DVD copy of Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart ...

Brady Corbet Reveals First Details for Next Film, Inspired by Horror and Westerns

With just a week to go until Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, ranking quite highly on our best films of 2024, arrives in theaters, we're getting new details on wh...

The Criterion Collection’s March 2025 Lineup Includes Michael Mann, Alan Rudolph, and The Wages of Fear on 4K

It may have taken a half-century and well after he made films with any consistency, but Alan Rudolph is at last experiencing a verdant season. Just months sinc...

News

Radu Jude Reveals First Look at Next Two Features Dracula and Continental ’25

Exclusive: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Unraveling in New Artwork for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths

Exclusive: Cannes and ND/NF Selection Lost Country Acquired by Altered Innocence

Trailers

The Quiet Ones Trailer Captures the Largest Heist in Danish History

The Greatest Film of All-Time Returns to Theaters with 50th Anniversary Trailer for Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman

Renate Reinsve Enters a Tangled Web In Trailer for Norway’s Oscar Entry Armand

Reviews

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera Review: A Heist Thriller That Would Make Jean-Pierre Melville Proud

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

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Blake Simons’ Top 10 Films of 2024

Joshua Bogatin’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Interviews

“Cinema Could Be Grander”: Nickel Boys Director RaMell Ross on Perspectives, Contradictions, and True Intimacy

Adrien Brody on Pulling Personal History into The Brutalist, Overlooked Performances, and Acting with Beyoncé

“It Was Worth the Hassle”: The Brutalist Editor Dávid Jancsó on Deliberate Pacing, Multiple Formats, and Crying at Venice

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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