The Film Stage

Representing their busiest month in recent memory, June offers nine releases and eleven titles from the Criterion Collection. Perhaps of greatest note are two 4K releases for John Waters (Desperate Living and Hairspray) who, despite all this, still can’t get...

Take one step into the world of festivals and you’ll understand that making a movie isn’t just “making a movie.” Even if one has the fortune to get some money for the script they’ve slaved over, get some actors in...

Jane Alexander has one of those careers that seems impossible. Four Academy Award nominations in fourteen years. A Tony Award in 1969 for the Howard Sackler play The Great White Hope. She wrote a book (Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA major Agnès Varda retrospective begins; Satyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest continues in a new restoration; a print of Jerry Lewis’ The Bellboy shows on Sunday. Museum of Modern...

A parody of dialectical materialism (you’ll understand what this means when you see the film), superficial economies, and the cult of fast fashion, I Love Boosters—the second feature from rapper, activist, and filmmaker Boots Riley—proves a spirited and hilarious comedy...

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. Anniversary (Jan Komasa) Jan Komasa’s Anniversary should be in the running for least-subtle movie of the...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. Today, however, we talk about Oscar...

Taking one of the longest breaks of his career, it’s been four years since Steven Spielberg’s last feature, The Fabelmans, but he’s thankfully returning this summer. Going back to the realm of extraterrestrial sci-fi after Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T....

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 13. undertone (stylized all-lowercase) writer-director Ian Tuason staged his debut feature entirely in his Toronto childhood home with only two...

After premiering in competition at the Sundance Film Festival last year, Katarina Zhu’s directorial debut Bunnylovr was picked up Utopia for a theatrical release beginning April 10. Starring Zhu alongside Rachel Sennott, Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, and Jack Kilmer, the first...