The Film Stage

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. On Swift Horses opens in theaters on April 25. It’s been some time since we’ve had such a ridiculously attractive lineup of buzzworthy young actors as the...

The most essential, vital documentary of the last year, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor’s No Other Land, is now finally available to watch at home for a limited time. The Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award winner...

His first narrative feature in six years, featuring footage collected over some two decades, Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides is one of the filmmaker’s greatest achievements. A summative piece in a career-spanning project of capturing China’s transformation, the Cannes,...

The Legend of Ochi, written and directed by Isaiah Saxon, is a lovely adventure built on imagination and skill. It certainly feels like the kind of film that will last a good long while. Short on dialogue and long on...

Remaking a film on the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry is hardly a task that one should take lightly. Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet dials up the pressure by placing a Golden Bear victory and Oscar nomination on its...

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. Benediction (Terence Davies) Time is everything in a Terence Davies film. In Benediction, his biopic...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMTriple Canopy Presents: In The Hole brings 35mm prints of Salò, Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole, and more. Roxy CinemaMartin Scorsese presents Henry Hathaway’s Kiss of Death on 35mm this Friday;...

While this summer has its fair share of sequels, leave it to Dag Johan Haugerud and Strand Releasing to roll out an entire trilogy of films across the season. Fresh off the Norwegian filmmaker’s Berlinale Golden Bear win for Dreams,...

We’re delighted to exclusively announce that KimStim has acquired all North American rights to the Quay Brothers’ Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. A stop-motion/live-action masterpiece inspired by the works of Jewish-Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz, this personal passion...

Few recent films, and even fewer by major directors, are so death-haunted as David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds. Since well before its premiere has there been much acknowledgment of personal parallels for the director, though an even larger sense of loss,...