The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterAs La maison des bois opens in a new restoration, three films by Maurice Pialat screen. Museum of Modern ArtThe films, commercials, and music videos of Tarsem...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we celebrate an actor with an incredible range: Chow Yun-fat....

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. Agon (Giulio Bertelli) With the winter Olympics now in the rearview, if you want...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Locarno coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 24. Writing about another great Locarno film a few days ago, I lamented the critical inclination to always bring up Éric...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 24. If, by and large, American cinema has taken a puritanical view on sex, leave it to our neighbors up north...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 24. Early one morning, a single father and widower (John Magaro)––credited as Dad––wakes up his perceptive nine-year-old Ella (Molly Belle Wright)...

While we wait and see if another filmmaker on this list gets around to making his planned It Follows sequel, Australian director Adrian Chiarella’s unnerving feature debut Leviticus brings a memorable dose of similar nightmarish dread. Following a pair of...

Somewhere in a tower block, a Korean woman (Shim Eun-kyung) sits at a table in front of a blank piece of paper and pauses to think. After a moment, she begins to write. From her pencil, a scene emerges, and...

After wrapping shooting back in the first half of 2022, the road to theaters for Dave Green’s Coyote vs. Acme has had more obstacles than the Road Runner regularly faces. After Warner Bros. Discovery opted to shelve the film as...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 24. David Mackenzie gets the opening credits out of the way as soon as we sit down to watch his...