The Film Stage

Following last week’s unveiling of the main sections of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, we now have the lineups for three sidebars. First up and most notably, Directors’ Fortnight has revealed its promising lineup, which includes Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam,...

Following up one of his smallest-scale films, Suspended Time, Olivier Assayas’ latest is the epic political drama The Wizard of the Kremlin, based on Giuliano da Empoli. Starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin alongside Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge,...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 17. You might wonder if you’re watching the wrong movie during the prologue to Ben Wheatley’s Normal. The setting is...

With it being 13 long years since Spike Jonze last directed a narrative film and no feature projects in sight, his creative output has mostly been music videos, stand-up specials, ads, and shepherding the Jackass franchise. His latest directorial work...

A few weeks ago, I landed in Copenhagen for this year’s CPH:DOX in the early hours of the evening, still a little dazed from covering the Oscars the night before. My plan that night was to catch a screening of...

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 celebrate our greatest living comedian: Steve Martin! Our B-Sides...

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. Dreams (Michel Franco) Following Memory, Michel Franco and Jessica Chastain reunited for Dreams, one of...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaKen Jacobs’ XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX and The Whirled screen on Friday; Jack Harlow has programmed Secrets & Lies and a print of 8½, while Pete Ohs presents Agnieszka Holland’s Provincial Assets...

Among the true faithful, Serpent’s Path is no new object from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. But despite standing among his greatest films, it’s stayed in a much greater obscurity than Cure or Pulse, likely only seen on DVD rips or salutary upscales....

Following its world premiere at the New York Film Festival last fall and ahead of its west coast premiere at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies this weekend, we’re pleased to exclusively present the poster and trailer for the new...