The Film Stage

Tribeca Review: Sophia Takal’s Act One Feels Like a Lucid Nightmare

Following up her reframed remake of Black Christmas, Sophia Takal’s Act One, is a polarizing work taking place in the shadows of Anytown, USA (though largely f...

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

We're delighted to exclusively announce that Altered Innocence has acquired North American rights to Virgina (Virdžina), the acclaimed 1991 feature from celebr...

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & 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...

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtThe exquisitely programmed Universal Westerns continues with two by Rob...

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

How many times has the story of Robin Hood been told? How many books have been written, how many movies made about the outlaw? With The Death of Robin Hood, wr...

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

If 2026 was, probably, not a banner year for Sundance—nor the ideal send-off to Park City, but let's not get into that now—the best titles still made a fine im...

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Though among the great films of its time, proof-positive of the Italian studio system's genius, and a peak for both director Luchino Visconti and star Marcello...

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

Here I’m Alive, Joshua Z Weinstein’s follow-up to his 2017 breakout Menashe, is an intimate and claustrophobic mosaic of New York City life, a film that is bot...

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Fantasia coverage. The film arrives on Netflix on June 12. More than the similarly mythologiz...

The Gas Station Attendant Review: A Compelling If Formally Unsure Immigrant Story

In a political climate as antagonistic toward immigrants as any I can recall, deeply personal stories like Karla Murthy’s The Gas Station Attendant remind us o...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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