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A benefactor to Adrien Brody’s architect character László Tóth, the patronage of Guy Pearce’s wealthy Harrison Lee Van Buren eventually metastasizes into something far darker as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist examines balances of power and privilege. Giving one of the...

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. It is almost impossible, or so it seems to me, to have a conversation about...

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 the decade crosses its halfway point, I can already sense the hastily assembled lists...

Remakes, reboots, and sequels are all the rage in Hollywood these days. Studios hand them out like candy to proven and unproven talent alike, but very few directors not named Villeneuve or Spielberg get to actually direct them. The studios...

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. Each year offers some important movie-going lessons, and 2024 was no exception. Buy tickets early...

As the most-anticipated film of his career began playing to critics and faced down the circus of press junkets and awards screenings, Jarin Blaschke was in Toruń, Poland to survey unknown talent. EnergaCAMERIMAGE invited him to head their Cinematographers’ Debuts...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageSee It Big! Let It Snow brings 35mm prints of All That Heaven Allows, Doctor Zhivago, and Meet Me In St. Louis. Museum of Modern ArtA dual celebration of Marcello and Chiara...

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. Is there a worse way to see movies than the obligatory December spent catching up...

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. Anora (Sean Baker) Sean Baker’s Anora expands his filmmaking vision, pushing the writer-director-editor’s fifth consecutive story...

Following part one of our 2025 movie preview, we’re counting down our 50 most-anticipated films of the year. 50. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle; June 20) It’s a shame the 28 Later (?) franchise lost its shaky, grainy video-camera aesthetic that...