The Film Stage

Sundance Review: Charli XCX Mockumentary The Moment is Alternately Silly and Earnest
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The Moment finds musician Charli xcx at a unique moment in her career. Toiling for years as a niche artist with a devoted fanbase, the album brat catapults her to global stardom. But with her brat summer tour over, what’s...
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Sundance Review: I Want Your Sex is Gregg Araki’s Plea to the Younger Generation to Chill Out and Have More Sex
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Across Park City and beyond, the question on everyone’s mind has been: is I Want Your Sex the “return to form” for Gregg Araki, as described by director of programming Kim Yutani in her introduction to the film last night?...
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Sundance Review: The Oldest Person in the World is a Neverending, Personal Quest
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Why do we care who the oldest person in the world is? It doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. It feels like they’re always around the same age. But if there’s an article about it, I’m going...
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Sundance Review: American Doctor Shows the Genocide Your Tax Dollars Are Paying For
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When will this end? When will this bloodshed stop? And when will the United States of America stop supporting it? Filmmaker Poh Si Teng offers a clear-eyed, unrelenting look at the genocide in Gaza with her documentary American Doctor. It...
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Sundance Review: One in a Million Tells an Epic Saga of Exile and Assimilation
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“War is not the hardest thing a person can go through. It’s not as hard as what comes after.” These opening words are the guiding theme of Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes’ One in a Million, an epic saga of...
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Exclusive Clip and Poster for Ramzi Bashour’s Sundance Premiere Hot Water Introduces Mother-Son Road Comedy
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Premiering in Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition section today at Eccles, Ramzi Bashour’s feature debut Hot Water tells a perceptive, humorous mother-son tale set amongst a cross-country road movie. Starring Lubna Azabal (Incendies) and Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages, Lurker),...
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Exclusive Trailer for Removal of the Eye Finds Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan Building a Family
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One of the most creative takes on the pandemic era came a few years ago with the lo-fi, humorous New Strains, and now directors Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan are returning with Removal of the Eye. Once again mining from...
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Sundance Review: John Wilson’s The History of Concrete is an Idiosyncratic, Joyous Feature Debut
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Like a movie tie-in, John Wilson’s debut documentary feature, The History of Concrete, picks up immediately where his HBO series How To with John Wilson left off after three seasons. An elevated public profile does not lead to the next...
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Sundance Review: The Lake Captures a Thrilling, Terrifying Mission to Defuse an Environmental Nuclear Bomb
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If a ticking nuclear bomb is threatening to destroy your city and the only way to defuse it is to band together as a community, setting aside personal and professional differences for the greater good, would you do it? This...
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Sinners and One Battle After Another Lead 2026 Oscar Nominations
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Ahead of the 98th Academy Awards on March 15––still nearly two months away––this year’s nominations have been unveiled. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads the pack with a whopping, record-setting 16 nominations, while Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is close...
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