The Film Stage

While this year’s Sundance Film Festival continues through the weekend, including online viewing nationwide, the winners have been unveiled, with Beth de Araújo’s Josephine taking the top dramatic jury and audience prizes, Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear...

Carousel is a movie out of time. Working with Chris Pine and Jenny Slate, writer-director Rachel Lambert has constructed a delicate, patient, slice-of-life picture recalling Murphy’s Romance or Starting Over. That this even got made feels special. Pine plays Noah,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaTexasville, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and Short Cuts play on 35mm; Ghost in the Shell screens on Sunday. Paris TheaterPrints of Strange Days and Pretty Poison show on Saturday...

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 Canadian greatness. We celebrate Rachel McAdams! Our B-Sides...

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. 2026 Sundance Film Festival While Sundance Film Festival kicked off last week in Park...

Perspective is everything in Beth de Araújo’s Josephine, a stomach-churning drama focused on the loss of innocence and the ill-equipped guidance—both parental and bureaucratic—that can compound enduring trauma. We first meet eight-year-old Josephine (Mason Reeves, in a remarkable debut performance)...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 NYFF coverage. The Love That Remains opens in theaters on January 30. Hlynur Pálmason’s fourth feature marks a soft, Malickian left turn for the man behind the icy-bleak dramas...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. A Poet opens in theaters on January 30. Far removed from the mournful yearnings of A Quiet Passion––much less the quotidian, calming rhythms of Paterson––Simón Mesa Soto’s...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Berlinale coverage. Islands opens in theaters on January 30. Sam Riley stars as Tom, a washed-up tennis-pro-turned-coach at a luxury island hotel on the Canary Islands, in Islands, the...

The extended opening of The Incomer, written and directed by Louis Paxton, is very funny and engaging. That the film never reaches those heights again is something of an indictment. Far away and remote on a lonely, lovely Scottish isle,...