The Film Stage

Coal miners from Kentucky traveled to New York City months into their 1973 strike to increase their struggle’s profile. As documented by Barbara Kopple in Harlan County, USA, one of their most vocal supporters was an NYPD officer. It makes...

We’re now just about three weeks away from the release of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film Digger, featuring Tom Cruise undergoing quite the transformation to play oil tycoon Digger Rockwell. While the film is going the One Battle After Another...

There are several reasons a director can decide to remake their own work. It could be an instance of having greater resources and being more confident in your skills, as was the case with Alfred Hitchcock revisiting The Man Who...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Cannes coverage. The film opens on September 9. It’s never night in Hope Harbor. At least so long as we’re there. The eschatological events of writer-director Na Hong-Jin’s high-octane,...

The most interesting thing about Bunker is a moment of visual repetition. Early on, a husband and wife, Miguel (Javier Bardem) and Julia (Penélope Cruz), snicker amongst themselves, as lovers do, at an art opening, amused at three abstract paintings...

Back not a moment too soon (and off one of his best films), M. Night Shyamalan has directed Remain, a VistaVision-shot romantic thriller that arrives on February 5. Ahead of this comes a first preview of Jake Gyllenhaal and Sophie...

Is any movie this year more compelling than the frayed story of Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial? The star-studded, $40 million Sam Altman biopic (or exposé or spoof or something altogether different) was dropped by Amazon MGM Studios just before a likely...

After Takashi Yamazaki’s smash, Oscar-winning hit Godzilla Minus One, he’s back with Godzilla Minus Zero, a sequel set for release on November 3 in Japan and three days later in the United States. Ahead of a roll-out of the film—including a world premiere...

Following its acclaimed world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, Nicolás Pereda’s witty, deadpan comedy Everything Else Is Noise (Lo demás es ruido) is coming to North America. Ahead of a premiere in the Wavelengths section of the 51st...

After a period marked by ambition and drift in his work since winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters in 2018, Hirokazu Koreeda has returned to a more intimate kind of cinema for his latest film Look Back, a crystal-clear tale...