The Film Stage

Following Ida and Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski returned to Cannes this month with Fatherland, a drama starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, which earned him a Best Director prize. Ahead of a fall release from MUBI, the first trailer and...

A slippery character study and staggering sensory experience, Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents was one of my favorite discoveries of last year’s New York Film Festival. It opens on an Argentinian designer named Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola), who survives a...

It starts as a gag. Pepa (Núria Prims) rings to apologize to her mother and believes it is she who picks up the phone. Her teenage daughter Cata (Zoe Stein) plays along, pretending to answer as she assumes her grandmother...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 29. The new documentary With Hasan in Gaza––a poignant, meditative portrait of a city now fighting for its life––works as...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 29. “Will your oceans be made of our glaciers?” Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason asks in the narration that plays...

Far and away one of the highlights of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival (landing on nearly all top 10 lists from our critics), Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow follow-up Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a...

Following Matt Johnson’s Anthony Bourdain drama Tony, A24’s subsequent release is another unconventional biopic, this time following the story of To Catch a Predator‘s Chris Hansen. In Primetime, Robert Pattinson plays the television host and investigative journalist for director Lance...

Kane Parsons has one hell of an origin story: a YouTuber from an extremely early age who taught himself how to create visual effects with Blender software during the COVID lockdown, he arrived on the other side with a fully...

Can you make an engaging film about predicting the weather? Pressure, directed by Anthony Maras, answers this question in the affirmative. Set mere days before D-Day is set to commence, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) needs an accurate forecast...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters and is available digitally on May 29. “The world is full of people,” states the anonymous narrator of Anders Thomas Jensen’s The...