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The 2025 New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCC) Nominations
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The New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCC) have announced their nominations representing the best in film for 2025. The winners will be announced on December 31st. Here are this year’s nominees… Best PictureHamnetIt Was Just An AccidentMarty SupremeNo Other ChoiceOne...
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FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER Review: Very Slight, Very Familiar, Very Jarmusch
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Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat star in Jim Jarmusch's new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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“Embrace the Fluke”: Nathan Silver on Carol & Joy
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The time of Exit Elena, Stinking Heaven, and Thirst Street didn’t do much to prepare one for Nathan Silver’s mainstream ascendance. That last year’s Between the Temples pulled the über-difficult trick of maintaining sensibilities in the guise of a movie...
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No Other Choice | Review
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Slay the Competition: Chan-wook Explores the Horrors of Capitalism In many ways, Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax feels more relevant than ever, which is why Park Chan-wook’s adaptation No Other Choice feels so strangely felicitous taking place, as it...
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Interview: Mona Fastvold – The Testament of Ann Lee
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Her cinema deals with female interiority under constraint, isolation as both burden and refuge, and working with the human body as a site of meaning and resistance, in just three offerings in The Sleepwalker (2014), The World to Come (2020) and...
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The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)
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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss America’s everyman and one of its most indelible...
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The Plague Review: Bullying Drama of Paranoia Requries Suspension of Disbelief
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If you’ve ever encountered tween bullying, you’ll know that, long before it gets personal, the process of picking out a target begins by being as annoying as possible; the first person to get ground down by this is easily the...
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Alistair Ryder’s Top 10 Films of 2025
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. It currently feels like I open every end-of-year roundup lamenting the death of cinema, film criticism, or...
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The 10 Best Horror Films of 2025
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One of our critics picks her ten favorites from a very good year for horror.
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THIS IS NOT A TEST Poster Debut: Adam MacDonald’s High School Zombie Horror Attacks Theaters February 20th, 2026
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Sloane and a small group of her classmates take cover in their high school to escape their suddenly apocalyptic hometown. As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloane begins to see the world through the eyes of people who actually...
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