The Film Stage

It’s not even Halloween but already time to set your 2027 viewing calendar. Coming to Criterion on Blu-ray are Claire Denis’ feature debut, Chocolat, a film whose colors and textures demand a higher, and Mike Leigh’s Career Girls, which will...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterKen Russell’s reconstructed The Devils has begun playing on a restored 35mm print—read (or listen to) our interview with Mark Kermode on it. Roxy CinemaA program of...

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.  Our subject today is the weird, handsome, and weirdly handsome James...

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 round-ups here. Buddy (Casper Kelly) A mix of Barney and Blue’s Clues, the TV program Buddy...

There are holy grails, and then there’s The Devils. While Ken Russell’s 1971 film has been available in some form or another for decades, many (like me) always avoided it—not for its scandalous content, but for the lack of such....

“Could I have wasted 35 years of my life?” It’s a question asked by someone who was a follower of “anti-guru” U. G. Krishnamurti in the documentary The Natural State. Directed by Matthew Dougherty, the film is constructed from hundreds...

Written, directed, and produced by Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei, The Friend’s House Is Here takes a look inside Tehran’s underground art scene in a drama shot covertly. Winner of the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast at...

Winner of the US Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival 2026, Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s visually stunning Nuisance Bear will now get a release this winter. Set for a Los Angeles bow on...

Sian Heder’s Oscar winner CODA felt like a movie out of time. It was the kind of broad crowd-pleaser that Miramax would have released to awards success a couple of decades earlier, which I would argue only triumphed with the...

Andrew Haigh returned this fall with another tender drama, this time adapting a Colm Tóibín story with a cast including Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. A Long Winter, which recently played at New York...