The Film Stage

Reteaming with A24 after A Ghost Story and The Green Knight, writer-director David Lowery returns next year with Mother Mary, an epic pop melodrama that brings together Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sian Clifford, and FKA...

The opening credits of Marty Supreme features retro animation of a sperm fertilizing a giant egg; as Alphaville’s “Forever Young” blares over the soundtrack, the giant fertilized egg eventually transforms into a ping pong ball flying across the net of...

Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold new voices. It’s why we venture to festivals and pore over a variety of different features that...

I blinked once and it was time for end-of-2025 lists. Few things herald the onslaught quite so seriously as Cahiers du cinéma’s annual countdown, which has characteristically mixed stateside favorites, major festival debuts, and titles awaiting a bigger moment. Leading...

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. 2000 Meters to Andriivka (Mstyslav Chernov) In 2000 Meters to Andriivka, we are thrown headfirst...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaOur presentation of the uber-rare director’s cut of Abel Ferrara’s Cat Chaser screens on Sunday; Interiors and Looking for Mr. Goodbar both play on 35mm. Film ForumFilms by Jacques...

For a career as diverse, singular, and influential as Martin Scorsese’s, the task of summarizing it in even five hours is a mammoth task, making director Rebecca Miller and editor David Bartner’s Mr. Scorsese such a vital, impressive documentary. Across...

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 talk about someone who played Bond, James Bond, and...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage under the title Middletown. Teenage Wasteland opens in theaters on November 26. In 1991, Middletown High School teacher Fred Isseks started an elective class that every student...

With just five features to his name (four of which premiered at Cannes), writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho has swiftly, firmly established himself as a vital figure of Brazilian cinema. His latest, The Secret Agent, tells the story of a former...