The Film Stage

Since its premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, we’ve long-awaited the U.S. release of Ramon Zürcher’s The Sparrow in the Chimney, the trilogy-capper following the formally thrilling The Strange Little Cat and The Girl and the Spider. Starring Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein,...

You can say that Danny Boyle was once the filmmaking avatar of Cool Britannia: a director who, at age 40, still managed to perfectly capture the zeitgeist of 20-year-olds, as seen in Trainspotting. In the span of time between then...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our Venice 2024 coverage. Familiar Touch opens in theaters on June 20. In a sunny kitchen in California, Ruth prepares a sandwich with the muscle memory that only a lifetime allows....

Our decision to declare Miami Vice this century’s greatest action film some eight years ago was neither made lightly nor received unanimously, but fortune favors the bold. Part and parcel of its canonization, Michael Mann’s classic streams on Criterion this...

A workmanlike procedural that does more to suggest a Clint Eastwood drama than the kind of unhinged thriller one’s come to associate with great auteur Takashi Miike, Sham is surprisingly straightforward. The story follows a teacher accused of abusing a...

Upon hearing the name “Dorothy” I, like most, immediately think of The Wizard of Oz. I remember watching the film when I was a kid, sitting on the couch with my family. I remember my parents calling it “a classic.”...

Likely that Criterion were developing their 4K upgrade of High and Low––a film they released so long ago that it was then subject to a “high-definition digital transfer”––well before any date was set for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, but...

Love is a commodity in Materialists, the second feature from Past Lives writer-director Celine Song. Dakota Johnson plays Lucy, a matchmaker for an elite dating service. Money problems had forced a breakup with John (Chris Evans), a struggling actor. Harry...

Following the theatrical releases of Eephus and Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, the next feature from Omnes Films is coming to U.S. theaters. We’re thrilled to exclusively announce Factory 25 has acquired worldwide rights to Alexandra Simpson’s feature-directing debut No...

Materialists is a film with a classic screwball setup: a young, beautiful matchmaker meets the charming, rich man of her dreams on the same night she runs into her broke, handsome ex-boyfriend. But Celine Song’s sophomore feature takes a more...