Nickel Boys is the film of 2024. It’s expansive yet accessible. It’s violent yet pierced with seconds of warmth. It’s an adaptation that expands Colson Whitehead’s novel, a visual experience that hedges on the audience’s openness, on a person’s willingness...
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 2024 saw the flicker of a major flame in the strands of cinema that have my heart...
After a major 2024 with the wider release of his blistering satire Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (which nabbed a spot in our top 10) and the premiere of a pair of smaller-scale, experimental...
It’ll be non fisticuffs round between Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker and Brady Corbet. and it’s worth mentioning the Oscars aren’t too far behind. The Directors Guild of America (DGA) nominations are out and among the group of five we also...
I'm doing this for nostalgia's sake, cause over thirty years I watched the very first Sniper movie with Tom Berenger and Billy Zane and was completely in love with it. Before there was airsoft there was paintball and I'd organize...
The Cineuropa folks have unveiled the latest round of CNC’s advance on receipts projects (eleven in total) and at the top of the list we find the likes of Élie Wajeman, Valérie Donzelli and sophomore features by the next wave...
Canonized two years ago as the greatest film of all time, topping Sight and Sound’s once-every-decade poll, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles now celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, originally premiering at Directors’ Fortnight at...
Nina, a tempestuous young woman, joins a group of hunters in a remote cabin. A mysterious stranger's arrival disrupts her newfound place in their male micro-society. Annick Blanc's Quebecois thriller, Hunting Daze, will have its U.S. release next week...