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“Nobody Can See It In Georgia”: April Director Dea Kulumbegashvili on State Suppression and Luca Guadagnino’s Protection

Note: This interview was originally published as part of our 2024 Filmfest Hamburg coverage. April opens in theaters on April 25. With only two feature film...

Magic Farm Review: Chloë Sevigny Gets Lost in Argentina

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Magic Farm opens in theaters on April 25. Remember Vice News? It was like ...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Visionary Female Directors, De Palma’s Underrated War, Almodóvar, and Anthony Mann

We are now well into 2025, and our latest column features several books that will likely rank among the year’s finest and most important releases. Plus, this c...

Robert Zemeckis, M. Night Shyamalan, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Radu Jude Set Up New Projects

Directing the best American film of 2024 that's also the uber-rare piece of experimental art to screen in multiplexes and––you know where this is headed––massi...

2025 Cannes Film Festival Adds Films by Lynne Ramsay, Kristen Stewart, Ethan Coen, Lav Diaz & More

After the initial main announcement and sidebars, the full Cannes Film Festival lineup has now come into focus with 16 additions today. Highlights include Lynn...

MUBI’s May 2025 Lineup Includes Rooney Mara, Amalia Ulman, Latin America at Cannes & More

MUBI's May 2025 selection has arrived, featuring a Rooney Mara double-bill of perhaps her best film (Carol) and most recent effort (La cocina), Cannes-selected...

April Review: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Second Feature is a Mystical Cinematic Revelation

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. April opens in theaters on April 25. In this year’s diverse line-up of V...

“There’s No Nostalgia for Me in This Film”: The Legend of Ochi Director Isaiah Saxon on Making His $10 Million Debut Look Bigger Than Life

Making movies is hard. This is not a revelatory observation, though a film like The Legend of Ochi underlines how much most of us take the art of filmmaking fo...

Mountainhead Teaser: Succession Creator Jesse Armstrong’s New Film Captures Billionaires in Crisis

In what may be among the quickest production-to-premiere turnarounds for a feature film, Succession creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong's next project Mount...

Emergent City Review: A Resonate Tale of Brooklyn Community Fighting for Their Home

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Tribeca coverage. Emergent City opens in theaters on April 25. Full transparency: I’ve been t...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Catch Me If You Can, The Lost Weekend, The Spirit of the Beehive & More

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Trailers

The Odyssey Trailer Teases Christopher Nolan’s Mythic Epic

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Reviews

The Plague Review: Bullying Drama of Paranoia Requries Suspension of Disbelief

No Other Choice Review: Park Chan-wook’s Rage-Filled and Blood-Drenched Thriller

The Testament of Ann Lee Review: Amanda Seyfried Gives Her Finest Performance Yet

Features

The Best Movie Posters of 2025

Oliver Weir’s Top 10 Films of 2025

The Film Stage’s Most-Read Posts of 2025

Interviews

Jack Fisk on Creating an Authentic 1950s New York for Marty Supreme and Josh Safdie’s Drive

Mona Fastvold on The Testament of Ann Lee, Refusing to Compromise, and Cinematic Traditions

“Maybe Sometimes Something Works”: Nathan Silver on Carol & Joy

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

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