The Film Stage

A world premiere at the esteemed True/False Film Festival this year, as well as award-winning stops at Hot Docs, Margaret Mead Film Festival, and more, Sasha Wortzel’s River of Grass is an ode to Florida’s Everglades. The documentary explores the...

For fans of Sam Raimi in horror-thriller mode, the starvation has been real. In the nearly two decades since 2009’s Drag Me to Hell, the Evil Dead director has spent his talents in the worlds of Oz and the Marvel...

The third of four films starring Josh O’Connor to get a fall release, Max Walker-Silverman’s A Love Song follow-up Rebuilding premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and will now arrive on November 14 from Bleecker Street. Here’s...

To international viewers, Bad Apples will play like a conventional dark comedy about a schoolteacher pushed too far by a student; to Brits, it’s a scorched Earth takedown of a state education system that has failed millions of children, any...

In 2008, Juliette Binoche paired with dancer Akram Khan for in-i, an experimental dance work about a couple’s dissolving relationship. They performed the piece 120 times in theaters around the world. Binoche’s sister Marion Stalens shot a documentary about the production,...

In the last five-or-so years I’ve probably not acquainted myself with a better filmmaker than João César Monteiro, who I’d either distill as the closest analogue cinema had to Philip Roth or, per my friend Ian Barr, “like Chaplin’s Tramp...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. The Hyperboreans is now streaming on Film Movement+. “We humans are capable of greatness,” reads the first line in Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s The Hyperboreans as...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyIn perhaps the best series of the year, Japanese teacher and critic Shiguéhiko Hasumi has programmed Another History of the Movie in America and Japan, featuring films by Mizoguchi,...

Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? opens with both a simple and incredibly complex question: is this thing over? Alex and Tess Novak (Will Arnett and Laura Dern) are at their wits’ end after decades of marriage. They love their...

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. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) Albert Serra’s new film Afternoons of Solitude is more akin to...