The Film Stage

At long last, six years after Peterloo, the legendary Mike Leigh is back with one of the very best films of the year. Hard Truths––which we named one of our top 10 films of 2024 and crowned Marianne Jean-Baptiste with...

Adrien Brody is the magnificent center of Brady Corbet’s intimate-yet-sprawling epic The Brutalist, giving the performance of his career as László Tóth, who emigrates from Hungary following the Holocaust to restart his architectural ambitions in America under the patronage of...

We’re delighted to exclusively announce Altered Innocence has picked up all U.S. rights to Vladimir Perišić’s feature film Lost Country, which was the winner of the Rising Star award at Cannes Critics’ Week and also an official selection of New...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. The point is not to be fair, but to deliver gut-level reactions; to find the films that...

As AI continues to pervade every industry, there are also wide-ranging personal implications that society only seems to be currently scratching the surface of. Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck’s documentary Eternal You, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival last year,...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. As always, what is considered best is first determined by what can be seen, and this year...

As Terrence Malick and company now enter the sixth year of editing on his Biblical epic The Way of the Wind, 2025 may now finally be time it sees the light of day. After once again placing it highly among...

With a sprawling 215 minutes and VistaVision footage, not to mention a variety of other formats––including 8mm, 16mm, Super 16mm, 35mm (two-perf, three–perf, four-perf, and eight-perf), Betacam, even an Arri Alexa shot––constructing Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist took editor Dávid Jancsó...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Besides my annual trip to the Toronto International Film Festival—at which I mostly saw films that have...

It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2024––another year in which he not only premiered a new film, but shot another and is prepping another...