The Film Stage

Is spring the new summer? Because it’s a pretty big month of movies. Mario. Michael Jackson. Pattison/Zendaya 1.0. Universal’s déjà vu psyop delivering yet another new Mummy. Even Faces of Death (April 10) carries some potential zeitgeist allure for a...

How often do you think about dolphins? It’s a topic worth turning over, which makes especially valuable (deep breath as I say the title) John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office, a documentary about the man whose work with...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageA massive retrospective of 2001 in cinema brings 35mm prints of What Time Is It There?, Waking Life, and The Lady and the Duke, while Donnie Darko and That Old Dream That Moves also...

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. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta) In 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,...

Nearly 30 years into his feature filmmaking career, French writer-director François Ozon has done it all: screwball comedies, murder mystery musicals, erotic dramas, thrillers, political films, and more. Now, for the first time, he’s adapted a crucial literary and philosophical...

World premiering at the 2025 Edinburgh International Film Festival and making its North American premiere at Newfest to much acclaim, Elliot Tuttle’s feature Blue Film has already stirred up some controversy, touching on perhaps taboo subject matter. Picked up by...

After kicking off his feature directorial career with Robert Pattinson on The Childhood of a Leader, Brady Corbet has now reteamed with the actor. In between The Brutalist and his forthcoming X-rated, centuries-spanning drama, Corbet has found a way to...

Some critics are going to say The Drama is not about race, or that if it is, this is simply an accident born of colorblind casting. There is a reveal—the reveal the entire premise hinges on—early in the film that...

The first post-awards-season month of the year brings quite a mountain of notable, varied releases. From top winners at last year’s Locarno and Rotterdam to deeply impressive directorial debuts to the latest from (perhaps) America’s most prolific major director, there’s...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 3. Nobel laureate Albert Camus is one of the most consequential thinkers and writers in the French language, having created...