The Film Stage

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. April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) Like Beginning, April also carries the mark of reality, mediated. The director is inspired...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaLarry Charles and Bob Dylan’s Masked and Anonymous plays on 35mm this Friday and Sunday; a print of Johnny Guitar screens on Friday and Saturday, the latter day also...

After bursting on our radar with his hypnotic debut Taste at Berlinale in 2021, Vietnamese filmmaker Lê Bảo is back with Hearing (Thính Giác), which will make its World Premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in International Competition. Ahead of...

Stanley Kubrick was unable to crack an adaptation of the short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” in his lifetime; it was only when passed to Steven Spielberg that it became clear the best path was approaching this tale of...

Ahead of the 83rd Venice Film Festival taking place from September 2-12—with a jury led by Maggie Gyllenhaal alongside Kaouther Ben Hania, Johnnie To, Xavier Giannoli, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Daniel Blumberg, and Francesco Casetti—the lineup has been unveiled. Highlights include the...

The ten years since Nicolas Winding Refn’s prior theatrical feature was just enough time to activate déjà vu when Her Private Hell debuted at Cannes to a mixed-hostile response. While certain of these reactions (like our own) are well stated...

Richard Linklater remains prolific enough—if only between his ever-shooting Merrily We Roll Along and planned project on the transcendentalists—that this already has the air of something we only recall by reading a years-old headline and wondering whatever happened there. Nevertheless,...

One of the most impressive American indies I’ve seen in the last year sets Free Time and Dad & Step-Dad star Colin Burgess in a surreal comedy. Cory Santilli’s In the Mouth premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and we’re...

Chris Rock’s first directorial effort in 12 years, Misty Green, was just set for a world premiere at TIFF 2026 and is led by Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, as well as Rock. A24 has...

The question of which modern, living, working auteur most deserves a Criterion box set is not one I honestly wish to pose. (Would you intentionally open that can labeled “Worms”?) But I will suggest a sound logic in the recent...