The Film Stage

Perhaps you don’t know American writer, director, and comedian Matt Barats, nor one of his primary projects over the past decade: the REVERIES series. Taking place over three films (to date), the trilogy takes influence from the concept of Jack...

John Wilson is interested in the mundane. He’s fascinated by the specificity of a neighborhood, a building, a sidewalk, a person. In his new documentary and feature directorial debut, The History of Concrete, a follow-up to the HBO series How...

Resident Evil, as a game series, has always borrowed heavily from cinema, whether it be the fixed angles and Kiyoshi Kurosawa inspirations of the first title to the Texas Chainsaw riffs in the 7th. It’s less about the zombies, more...

Theater kids! Everyone knows the type. And more often than not, you’re annoyed by them. Still, watching The Debut, A24’s token Christmas Oscar push, you almost feel like they deserve a bit better. Is their mania something that deserves to...

Dexter Filkins’ 2012 New Yorker article “Atonement After Iraq” tells the incredible story of the Kachadoorian family, whose lives were ripped apart during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, and Lu Lobello, one of the soldiers responsible for their...

As America’s 250th year comes to a close, Criterion takes a look back at the nation’s 200th with a 4K upgrade of Robert Altman’s Nashville. The ’70s summery haze must really pop in Dolby Vision. So, too, should Ernst Lubitsch’s...

Does it feel like we’re stuck in VHS nostalgia? The New Zealand crime drama God Bless You, Mr. Kopu introduces its villain, the American salesman Marco Cass (Simon Rex), through the prism of a VHS infomercial—complete with tracking lines over...

Buried deep under the jungle in western Thailand where Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s The Burning Giants takes place is an empty theatre. Rows of velvety seats are coated in dust while a thick white smoke floats above them, like a massive ghost...

And so El Pampero Cine finally reach Jorge Luis Borges. The Argentine experimental film collective—comprising Mariano Llinás, Laura Citarella, Agustín Mendilaharzu, and Alejo Moguillanksy—are a natural outgrowth of the Latin American literary tradition of Borges, Bolaño and Cortazar, making Llinás’...

About as anticipated as a six-hour documentary on exiled Russian journalists gets, Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile—the follow-up to 2024’s Last Air in Moscow, the winner of our Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award—has seemingly proved...