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John Fink’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. No matter what 2025 brings, 2024 in cinema felt like a year of unprecedented freedom...
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Love Me Trailer: Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Find Romance Across Billions of Years
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One of the most ambitious films to premiere at Sundance Film Festival last year was Sam Zuchero and Andy Zuchero’s Love Me, which set Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun in a love story that took place across 13 billion years....
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From Ground Zero Review: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Is a Sobering Anthology Capturing Life During Wartime
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From Ground Zero is a film that, in an ideal world, would not exist, and cannot be written about as if it were a normal production. This anthology of 22 shorts is Palestine’s submission for the Best International Film Oscar...
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Daniel Eagan’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Among the many problems with movie lists is the lack of a common starting point....
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Santosh Review: U.K.’s Oscar Entry is a Taut Exploration of Gender Politics and Police Corruption
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After the riot-induced death of her policeman husband in the badlands of North India, 30-something widow Santosh Saini (Shahana Goswami) is told she has nothing. Her house, provided by the State, belongs to the State and will be reclaimed, along...
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C.J. Prince’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. I’ll be blunt: it wasn’t a good year for films, or at least for me...
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John Hillcoat Reveals Cormac McCarthy’s “Faustian” Vision for Blood Meridian Film
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It was more than 18 months ago that we learned John Hillcoat will adapt Blood Meridian, perhaps our era’s quintessential piece of cinema-defying material. What’s eluded a list of auteurs from notable (Todd Field) to intriguing (Tommy Lee Jones) to...
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The Film Stage’s Most-Read Posts of 2024
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As we continue to explore the best in 2024, today we’re taking a look at the articles that you, our dear readers, enjoyed the most throughout the past twelve months. Spanning reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, check out...
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Zhuo-Ning Su’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Perhaps in a year where wars are raging, the planet is burning, and the cruelest...
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The Brutalist Cinematographer Lol Crawley on VistaVision, the 70mm Experience, and Brady Corbet’s Flexibility
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Perhaps no film this year represents more from a cinematographic standpoint than The Brutalist. A continents- and decades-spanning period piece shot on VistaVision––the first English-language feature to do so since Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks in 1961––and projected on 70mm implies...
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