The Film Stage

After a stretch almost exclusively being the world’s greatest action star, Tom Cruise is returning to more dramatic territory this fall. Leading Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film Digger, Cruise has undergone quite the transformation to play oil tycoon Digger Rockwell....

After directing only a single film last year, What Does That Nature Say to You, Hong Sangsoo is back with his 34th and 35th features this year. Following The Day She Returns at Berlinale earlier this year, it was recently...

Like the old song goes: summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the street. While the theater has its benefits as a restrictive space, and we do not encourage interrupting those to your immediate left and right...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterTsai Ming-liang’s The Hole begins playing on a new 35mm print—read our interview with the director. BAMFilms by David Fincher, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tom Tykwer, and more screen in Electronica. Japan SocietyRex:...

Poh Si Teng’s American Doctor is a harrowing, heartbreaking portrait of Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian doctors who are risking their lives to tend to the overwhelming victims of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and speak the truth in any way they...

The latter-day work of Tsai Ming-liang—beginning, let’s say, around 2009’s Face or 2013’s Stray Dogs, and extending at least to 2024’s Abiding Nowhere—are not merely devoted to the master-shot style or scant narratives; for the admiring viewer, they briefly make...

After bringing much-loved surreal entertainment with his viral Too Many Cooks, Casper Kelly is getting into feature territory with Buddy, starring Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt. A premiere at Sundance earlier this...

After Takashi Yamazaki’s smash, Oscar-winning hit Godzilla Minus One, he’s back with Godzilla Minus Zero, a sequel set for release on November 3 in Japan and three days later in the United States. Ahead of a roll-out of the film,...

Following a divisive Cannes premiere, the “final cut” of Na Hong-Jin’s sci-fi thriller Hope is now set to debut stateside this month at the New York Asian Film Festival. Ahead of that North American unveiling and subsequent September 9 release...

Taking place August 5-15, the Locarno Film Festival has now unveiled its lineup for the 2026 edition. Featuring 233 films from 69 countries, including 103 world premieres, the 79th edition includes Hong Sangsoo’s Nowhere to Lay My Eyes, Cristóbal León and Joaquín...