The Film Stage

Celebrating its 50th edition this year, the Toronto International Film Festival will take place September 4–14. The festival has now unveiled its Galas & Special Presentations lineup, featuring new films by Benny Safdie, Gus Van Sant, Alice Winocour, Baz Luhrmann,...

After landing on our radar with his Golden Leopard-winning feature A Land Imagined, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua returned to the festival circuit last fall with his Venice premiere Stranger Eyes. The mysterious drama, starring Tsai Ming-liang regular Lee Kang-sheng,...

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. Apocalypse in the Tropics (Petra Costa) Five years, the closest presidential election in Brazilian...

It’s been such a long wait for Olivier Assayas’ Suspended Time, which premiered back at the 2024 Berlinale Film Festival, that the director has already shot another feature in the meantime, with The Wizard of the Kremlin hopefully gearing up...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA number of Akira Kurosawa’s most seminal films play in new 4K restorations, while the 4K restorations of Hearts of Darkness (listen to our interview) of Shall We Dance? continue. Roxy...

Intended or not, the Criterion Channel’s programming of Maurice Pialat and Michael Roemer pairs two auteurs who spoke the same death-riddled language. August’s lineup will bring nine features and one short from the former, four features and one documentary by...

While effectively every Hong Sangsoo film nabs nice responses from those who seek it out, By the Stream has carried a tad more weight––the sense that, after a few years of particularly handmade experiments, his longest feature (still just 111...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Eddington opens in theaters on July 18. In Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest doom spiral, the proposed building of a data center in nowhere New Mexico provides the...

A lovely film that has had quite a path to distribution will finally be arriving to close out the summer. Junebug writer Angus MacLachlan’s latest feature A Little Prayer premiered back at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival where it was...

One of the great artists who had far too little time on this planet, Jeff Buckley’s life and legacy get unearthed in the latest film from Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg. It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which premiered at Sundance Film...