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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. 2024 was my year of big, blustering cinema. The kind of movie that makes you...

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. Between the Temples (Nathan Silver) In a state of arrested development after his wife...

If you played Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari at 20-times speed it would be like watching complex organisms dissolve into blunter forms of matter. As it moves glacially but decisively through nearly three-and-a-half hours of footage––some soothing, some shocking, some otherworldly––it starts...

Happy Holidays from 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 the incomparable Al Pacino with the returning...

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. The best film I saw in 2024, Alain Guiradie’s new masterpiece Misericordia, will sadly not...

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...