The Film Stage

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. In a year of tumultuous upheaval for Hollywood, this year proved that no matter the profit-driven ways...

With The Testament of Ann Lee, writer-director Mona Fastvold and team continue the big swing Herzogian mindset present on last year’s The Brutalist, which she also co-wrote and co-produced with partner Brady Corbet. Whether shooting in Hungary for cheaper set...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. All but one of the films listed below premiered at a festival. Despite claims to the contrary,...

The time of Exit Elena, Stinking Heaven, and Thirst Street didn’t do much to prepare one for Nathan Silver’s mainstream ascendance. That last year’s Between the Temples pulled the über-difficult trick of maintaining sensibilities in the guise of a movie...

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 discuss America’s everyman and one of its most indelible...

If you’ve ever encountered tween bullying, you’ll know that, long before it gets personal, the process of picking out a target begins by being as annoying as possible; the first person to get ground down by this is easily the...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. It currently feels like I open every end-of-year roundup lamenting the death of cinema, film criticism, or...

A biography told with startling focus and immediacy, The Testament of Ann Lee documents the life of the founder of the Shakers in the 18th century. Alternating between brutal violence and ecstatic epiphanies, it’s a movie that commands attention. Written...

Coming in at number 23 on our list of the 100 most-anticipated films of 2025, Christopher Nolan’s epic The Odyssey looks like quite the blank check project in a career of blank checks. Now, after some theatrical-only teases, Universal Pictures...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. The year 2025 was, for me, the first in my memory in which movies didn’t mean much....