The Film Stage

One of the most unforgettable, harrowing documentaries of the year, Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor explores stand-your-ground laws through an individual case in Florida. Following a Sundance premiere, where it picked up a directing award, the film will now come to the...

The week is finally here. Paul Thomas Anderson’s long-awaited One Battle After Another is coming to theaters this weekend and, after two viewings, I can confirm the wait was worth it. A masterpiece of both action and comedy that confronts...

In January 2024, the Palestine Red Crescent Society received an emergency call from Hind Rajab, a five-year-old girl traveling in a car with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Gaza City. The Israeli army fired upon their vehicle and killed...

Viva la revolución! As bellowed by the ex-radical and current schlub Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), we have One Battle After Another’s most immediately memorable line, and arguably its thesis statement. But in this compelling, propulsive new film by Paul Thomas...

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. The Annihilation of Fish (Charles Burnett) Essentially a lost film, legendary director Charles Burnett’s...

Having progressed from the ’70s through the ’90s, the Criterion Channel can only make the logical next step in October programming with “2000s Horror,” which comprises mainstream favorites (The Others, What Lies Beneath), arthouse material (Trouble Every Day, May), and...

Is Shia LaBeouf a better director than Francis Ford Coppola? It’s a question perhaps only considered in the mind of the former, at least evidenced in an exclusive new clip from behind-the-scenes of Megalopolis. As captured by Mike Figgis––who was...

David Osit’s Predators makes supremely challenging viewing. In a world of snap judgments, the film, which premiered at Sundance this January and opens in theaters this Friday, suggests that the TV show To Catch a Predator may have helped victims of child sexual abuse...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. MEGADOC opens in theaters on September 19. A risky filmmaking project with Francis Ford Coppola––what could go wrong? Or more accurately: imagine what might go legendarily right....

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Predators opens in theaters on September 19. Filmmaker David Osit gives viewers a lot to wrestle with in Predators, his documentary about the reality show To Catch...