The Film Stage

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. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) If you were handed over the man...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. IFC CenterThe entirety of Twin Peaks begins screening; It’s a Wonderful Life plays daily; Tales from the Hood, The Doom Generation, Mandy, Bug, and Thief show late. Museum of the Moving ImageA New Leaf, Looking for Mr. Goodbar,...

Following part one of our 2026 movie preview, we’re counting down our 50 most-anticipated films of the year. 50. Sheep in the Box and Look Back (Hirokazu Kore-eda) With eight features alone between 2013-2023 (at least five of them bona fide...

With the New Year upon us, it’s time for our annual tradition of looking at the cinematic horizon. Having highlighted the films we guarantee are worth seeing in 2026 and those we hope get U.S. distribution, we now venture into the unknown. We dug...

Following up his first English-language feature, Pedro Almodóvar is readying his next feature, the Spanish-language Bitter Christmas (translated from Amarga Navidad) for a March 20 release in Spain and likely robust festival tour to follow. Led by Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón,...

As I noted in our round-up of the best cinematography of 2025, “If we were giving an award for the most varied cinematography of the year, it would surely go to Darius Khondji, who has lensed a trio of vastly...

In a major year for blockbusters, from Christopher Nolan to Denise Villeneuve, there’s none we are anticipating more than Steven Spielberg returning to the realm of extraterrestrial sci-fi. After Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and War...

After highlighting the 50 best films you may have missed this year and our overall top 50 films of 2025, today we put our spotlight on those that still need a home: movies we loved on the festival circuit––from Berlinale,...

With bittersweetness, Avatar: Fire and Ash closes a chapter on big filmmaking at a time when the maximalist spirit and cinematic frontiersmanship of James Cameron is in increasingly short supply. Few filmmakers have the dexterity to juggle a kitchen-sink approach...

Rescuing yet another auteurist item from the strange netherworld of streaming exclusivity, Criterion have announced a March 2026 date for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which will surely look better on their 4K disc than even the stablest...