The Film Stage

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 New York Film Festival coverage. The Friend opens in theaters on March 28 from Bleecker Street. Independent filmmaking duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s The Friend, their newest in...

The drive from Thessaloniki’s airport into the city begins like any other: car dealerships and furniture stores that give way to bustling street life. Home to over a million people, with a teeming port and the country’s largest university, Thessaloniki...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Grand Tour opens in theaters on March 28 from MUBI. If Chris Marker and Preston Sturges ever made a film together, it might have looked something like...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 SXSW coverage. Death of a Unicorn opens in theaters on March 28 from A24. A film with a few solid laughs and crowd-pleasing moments, Death of a Unicorn never...

This week consecrates a major turn in the 50-year career of Alan Rudolph, which began as an assistant to and screenwriter for Robert Altman before transitioning into decades writing and directing original, romantic, occasionally unnerving American cinema at a time...

Just ten years ago Harmony Korine told Marc Maron that filmmaking is so exhausting it can only demand extended breaks. Which makes his recent run––beginning with the formation of his own company, EDGLRD––all the more notable. Two movies in as...

Six years since his last solo directing feature, Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry returned to the world of rock in a very different way with Pavements. A tribute to Stephen Malkmus’ group, the film jumps between band documentary, biopic (and the making...

With it being eight years since his last feature Loveless, we’ve long been awaiting the return of Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev. After recovering from a brutal bout with COVID-19, a few years ago it was announced he would return with...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 SXSW coverage. Secret Mall Apartment is now in theaters. Shedding light on a quirky 2007 story that made national headlines, Secret Mall Apartment takes us deep into the bowels...

Playing like the kinkier granddaughter of Russ Meyers’ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys has an axe to grind, and then some. At its core, this is a critique of modern capitalism that feels increasingly relevant, arriving in a...