The Film Stage

In a year of impressive performances, Sandra Hüller’s best outing may very well be in Markus Schleinzer’s Rose, a film that earned her the Berlinale Silver Bear prize. Austria’s official entry to the 99th Academy Awards will arrive in select...

Wrapped inside the visual splendor, luxurious elegance, and ornate decoration of Sofia Coppola’s resplendent and anachronistic Marie Antoinette is the story of a young woman leaving her family behind to help lead another country—an unknown journey and simultaneous document of...

Misty Green is a disaster on all fronts. It’s a film that seems to hate its characters, the audience, and Black cinema in general. It’s a Hollywood satire with no insight. It’s a character study with no character. It’s a...

When, earlier this year, Olivier Assayas told me that his next project would be “in the vein” of Personal Shopper, it didn’t take much to parse that this meant the long-rumored reunion with Kristen Stewart—their first major collaboration since that...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA Yuen Woo-ping series continues, featuring two Once Upon a Time in China films by Tsui Hark, Wong Kar-wai’s Hong Kong cut of The Grandmaster, and a...

In a sobering wake-up call to anyone somehow not paying attention to the genocide Israel is enacting, as well as the most essential documentary of the year, No Other Land directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor are returning with NAZA. Premiering at...

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. Backrooms (Kane Parsons) The opening five minutes serve as an ideal primer for anybody...

“I need to be myself / I can’t be no one else.” Has an opening line of a first release better captured the appeal, complexity, and intent of a band than Oasis’ 1994 debut single “Supersonic”? This sense—that brothers Noel...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 25. Robert Pattinson was born to play Chris Hansen. In the opening shot of Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime—the documentary savant’s first...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Tribeca coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 25. For her debut, writer-director Paula Andrea González-Nasser chose to explore an oft-forgotten role in the filmmaking process: the location...