The Film Stage

Gore Verbinski Returns with First Trailer for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
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After last directing a feature with 2016’s A Cure for Wellness, Gore Verbinski finally returned to the director’s chair nearly a decade later with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. While originally set for a late January release, it’ll now...
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The Running Man Review: Edgar Wright’s First Pure Action Vehicle is a Partial Victory
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Edgar Wright has mostly stayed in the pocket of action cinema since Hot Fuzz paid loving homage to the bombastic genre in 2007. But because subsequent projects like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Baby Driver maintained the same comic...
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Timothée Chalamet Aims for Greatness in New Trailer for Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme
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One of the most electric viewing experiences of the year was seeing Josh Safdie unveil his long-awaited return to directing, Marty Supreme, as the secret screening of the 63rd New York Film Festival. Featuring Timothée Chalamet’s title character going through...
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“Not Everybody Has to Be Likable”: Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value and Suffering
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On my last night at the Morelia International Film Festival, dinner took place at Lu, a restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine. Over rollos de jicama and tostada San Pancho, conversation ranged from TCM’s Eddie Muller on Dorothy B. Hughes, director...
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Last One for the Road Review: A Delightful Trip Through Italy
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It doesn’t take long to work out where you are in Last One for the Road––for the backroads of Veneto, Italy, Francesco Sossai’s delightful new movie has the unmistakable specificity of a life spent there. What you instead start to...
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“Let the Location Speak to You”: Lynne Ramsay on Die My Love, Shooting Academy Ratio, and Adapting Impossible Novels
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Scottish writer-director Lynne Ramsay returns to feature filmmaking with Die My Love, eight years after You Were Never Really Here. The psycho-drama stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson as Grace and Jackson, a young couple with a new baby whose...
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk Review: A Devastatingly Immersive Portrait of Palestinian Suffering
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On October 7, 2024, Israel’s occupation of Gaza took new shape as a publicly declared war. At the time, Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi was traveling around the world presenting a film about the conflict she experienced firsthand as a child...
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Posterized November 2025: Rebuilding, Peter Hujar’s Day, Sentimental Value & More
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November has sequels (Wicked for Good on November 21), festival fare (Die My Love on November 7), international Oscar submissions (Sirât, limited on November 14 before going wide in January), animation (Zootopia 2 on November 26), and remakes (Running Man...
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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Review: A Child’s Wonder Brushed in Pastel Animation
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Most of us don’t remember what it was like to be two years old. The first few years of life consist largely of fragmented memories, stories that others have told, and pictures of babies that bear just enough resemblance. But...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Hollis Frampton, Sofia Coppola, Bo Widerberg & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Anthology Film ArchivesTwo by Hollis Frampton screen in Essential Cinema; programs curated by Marta Mateus and Bradley Eros play. Museum of Modern ArtA Sofia Coppola series begins with 35mm prints of The Bling...
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