The Film Stage

Taking on the art world is notoriously difficult—it’s already too ridiculous, and so the heightening of reality necessary for proper satire doesn’t work. There’s nowhere to go. But we need bold artists, ones that harness their inner Tobias Fünke and...

Working with her sister Anna—a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a developmental disability—director Liz Sargent’s sensitive drama Take Me Home is both witty and heartbreaking. It serves as an indictment of a system that would force a father to abandon his...

In a stray moment during Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon, a young man says he stopped complaining to his landlord about the cockroaches invading his L.A. flat lest the whole building should be condemned—the same fate that’s felled countless others around the...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMMichael Almereyda’s vampire film Nadja debuts in a long-overdue 4K restoration that plays daily. Watch an exclusive clip below: Museum of Modern ArtSeoul After Dark highlights lesser-known Korean cinema, with...

In dance, you have to lead with confidence. Your partner looks to you for guidance, and they require you to look back at them responsively, to move instinctually without faltering. There’s need for surefootedness, consistency, and impeccable timing. Luckily for...

A familair presence on the indie film scene in Strawberry Mansion, Booger, The Heirloom, Measures for a Funeral, Honey Bunch, and more, Canadian actress and filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s second directorial feature Dead Lover will now get a release this spring...

Mario, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter aren’t the only videogame adaptations hittting theaters this year. Genki Kawamura’s Exit 8, based on the hit game, premiered at Cannes Film Festival last year and went on to play at Toronto,...

The shortest month of the year has a handful of cinematic highlights, including numerous films that qualified for awards last year but are now getting official roll-outs. Other notable releases include a contender for the funniest film of 2026, the...

Gold is such an apt metaphor for greed. It’s shiny, it’s heavy, it’s superficial, and it’s obtained through someone’s hard labor. That labor is carried on the backs of the downtrodden and desperate while its benefactors maintain a comfortable distance....

Rock Springs works within a familiar genre framework––a family moves to a home in a town filled with strange people and is promptly haunted by spirits––to probe deeper ideas on the immigrant experience while exploring a Buddhist view of the...