The Film Stage

After crafting a pair of impressive horror features with 2009’s The Loved Ones and 2015’s The Devil’s Candy, Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne is finally returning a decade later with a new film. Dangerous Animals, starring Jai Courtney, Hassie Harrison, and...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 TIFF coverage. Friendship opens in theaters on May 9. The level of enjoyment audience members will have with Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship is tied directly to their tolerance for the...

One of the documentaries we’re most intrigued by at the Cannes Film Festival is Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi, and Yelizaveta Smit’s Militantropos, which debuts in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. Exploring the human condition amidst Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we’re pleased...

With Cannes Film Festival just around the corner, the festival has now unveiled its Classics lineup, featuring new restorations, films about filmmaking, and much more. Highlights include Stéphane Ghez’s David Lynch, une énigme à Hollywood (Welcome to Lynchland), a new documentary about...

While he’d long been rumored to be working in France on a film titled Our Apprenticeship, Ryusuke Hamaguchi told us that project was hardly more than a rumor. He’s now nevertheless set to direct his first feature in the country,...

Caught by the Tides is that much-sought, almost-never-fulfilled encounter with something one can’t be 100% certain is real. Audacious in concept (assembling a new narrative from footage shot for previous features) and with an execution to match, at its best...

“When you see them come down those stairs,” Herbert Marshall says at a climactic moment in The Enchanted Cottage, “whatever they do, whatever they say, act along with them. They don’t know it. But they’re playing a part.” John Cromwell’s...

When James Madigan’s action picture Fight or Flight works it’s because of Josh Hartnett. The premise is fairly simple: a nefarious, black-ops government agency led by a fierce Katee Sackhoff is forced to employ the dormant skills of an exiled...

The abyss stares back––that’s the overwhelming feeling of David Mamet’s new film Henry Johnson. It’s based on his play of the same name from 2023, and with both that date and Mamet’s recent public persona, one would probably have some...

One of the highlights from the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was Together, the latest collaboration between Alison Brie and Dave Franco. Marking the directorial debut of Michael Shanks, the film follows a couple who become intertwined in, let’s...