The Film Stage

Described as the heart-warming tale of a farmer who saves and befriends an injured white stork in North Macedonia, Tamara Kotevska’s The Tale of Silyan is actually a harrowing, sadly resonant story about survival during an era of increasing wealth...

Coming off one of the very best films of the century thus far with The Beast, we’ve been waiting to see how Bertrand Bonello will follow up that time-jumping, decade-encapsulating masterwork. We got a hint this summer that his next...

You might wonder if you’re watching the wrong movie during the prologue to Ben Wheatley’s Normal. The setting is Japan, three Yakuza are being reprimanded by their boss, and blood is splattering against the walls. Then you recall the screenwriter...

To hear a story from Azrael (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is to know the full potential of an angel’s work. He doesn’t just worry about natural disasters or inspiring genius––he saves lives by reminding lost souls of their value. Gabriel (Keanu...

Stanley Kubrick, in one of the most famous director disses ever, remarked that the failing of his friend Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List was that the Holocaust was six million people being killed, while the film decided to make it about...

This being such a busy year for premieres, one is liable to forget the seven-months-gone debut of The Ice Tower. We nevertheless found it one of 2025’s more notable offerings, which makes all the more appreciated Yellow Veil Pictures giving...

Films about films will earn a reflexive grown from the cynical; a film about one of the 15-or-so most-influential films ever––while, for good measure, serving as an origin story for the titanic movement it effectively began, with actors dressing up...

Eight years since Zama and more than two since she shared details, Lucrecia Martel has returned with her first feature-length documentary, Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra in its native tongue). The look at the murder of indigenous Argentine activist Javier Chocobar has...

With less than three weeks until the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the director has finally unveiled his highly anticipated epic ahead of the official Los Angeles premiere tonight. Last night at the DGA theater in...

Steven Soderbergh will not stop, and we should be thankful for that. His second film of 2025, The Christophers, is easily the year’s least essential, yet it has plenty to say about Soderbergh, his oeuvre, and where he finds himself...