The Film Stage

In Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence is Grace, a writer whose life is disrupted when the arrival of a baby leads to a move to the sticks of Montana to be closer to the family of her husband Jackson (Robert...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Peter Hujar’s Day opens in theaters on November 7. When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen Ginsburg, taken on December 18, 1974, it’s strikingly...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. Nuremberg opens in theaters on November 7. Stanley Kubrick, in one of the most famous director disses ever, remarked that the failing of his friend Steven Spielberg’s...

A world-cinema fixture who’s earned the support of Martin Scorsese, M. Night Shyamalan, Olivier Assayas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Béla Tarr, Claire Denis, Christian Petzold, Tilda Swinton, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi––among many others––Carlo Chatrian reshaped the festival landscape with his work as artistic...

One of the most heartbreaking documentaries of the year, Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk premiered at Cannes just weeks after the Israeli occupation murdered the film’s subject, 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Constructed...

Japan is hardly known for placing limits on cinema; one might posit that young cinephiles largely enter the nation’s incomprehensibly dense corpus through its most extreme offerings. While most accurately called an American project, almost universally hailed as a masterpiece,...

Two years after Wong Kar Wai’s Blossoms Shanghai premiered in China, the long-awaited series will now be coming to America. Beginning on November 24, the Criterion Channel will exclusively premiere the 30-episode series, with three new episodes released every Monday...

As the year nears its conclusion, November brings another incredible slate of films, including a few that’ll certainly be among my top ten of 2025 list. While not included below, this month also brings a handful of one-week, awards-qualifying runs...

In the couple of years since The Bikeriders premiered, we’ve been wondering when Jeff Nichols would be up to next. Last year, news came he was embarking on the ambitious task of adapting Cormac McCarthy’s final novels The Passenger and...

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. Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger) In Ballad of a Small Player, we are...