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MUBI has unveiled next’s streaming lineup, featuring notable new releases, including Molly Manning Walker’s debut How to Have Sex, Kevin Macdonald’s High & Low: John Galliano, and Quentin Dupieux’s Yannick. Ahead of Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, two of his...

Once more, and with feeling…Roxy CinemaOur 35mm print of Bertrand Bonello’s House of Tolerance has a final screening on Sunday; Spike Lee’s He Got Game and Hoosiers play on prints, while Blonde Ambition screens this Sunday. Anthology Film ArchivesThe films...

Convent-set movies occupy a storied place in cinema history—one too vast to attempt summarization in this review. But it’s no matter because Immaculate stands to be a minor entry in both the crowded genre and in Sydney Sweeney’s present ascension...

Free Time opens on an office meeting between Drew (Colin Burgess) and his boss. Drew is dissatisfied with his data analysis position because it’s too much data entry and too little analysis. “The computers do all of the analysis for...

A crowd-pleasing film based upon director Tracie Laymon’s experience talking with a stranger online at a low point in her life, Bob Trevino Likes It is a moving story that proves good people do exist in the world. With two...

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. After Blue (Bertrand Mandico) In the post-apocalyptic nightmare of After Blue, humanity—or what’s left of...

After nearly two decades of work in front of the camera, Dev Patel has crafted his directorial debut with the actioner Monkey Man. The Jordan Peele-produced feature, from Patel’s own story and screenplay he collaborated on with Paul Angunawela and...

When your surname’s a noun, adjective, and verb it behooves one to keep up the family legacy. As Brandon Cronenberg continued his feature-filmmaking career with last year’s Infinity Pool, Caitlin Cronenberg is staking a similar path with the dystopian satire...

We are somehow now into the spring season, and while cinemas have been a tad dull (minus a few gems like Love Lies Bleeding, Drive-Away Dolls, and Dune: Part Two), noteworthy new books have arrived at a frantic pace. Here...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we have a conversation about what...