The Film Stage

Having progressed from the ’70s through the ’90s, the Criterion Channel can only make the logical next step in October programming with “2000s Horror,” which comprises mainstream favorites (The Others, What Lies Beneath), arthouse material (Trouble Every Day, May), and...

Is Shia LaBeouf a better director than Francis Ford Coppola? It’s a question perhaps only considered in the mind of the former, at least evidenced in an exclusive new clip from behind-the-scenes of Megalopolis. As captured by Mike Figgis––who was...

David Osit’s Predators makes supremely challenging viewing. In a world of snap judgments, the film, which premiered at Sundance this January and opens in theaters this Friday, suggests that the TV show To Catch a Predator may have helped victims of child sexual abuse...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. MEGADOC opens in theaters on September 19. A risky filmmaking project with Francis Ford Coppola––what could go wrong? Or more accurately: imagine what might go legendarily right....

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Predators opens in theaters on September 19. Filmmaker David Osit gives viewers a lot to wrestle with in Predators, his documentary about the reality show To Catch...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Plainclothes opens in theaters on September 19. Set years before George Michael’s arrest and inspired by the bathroom raids that provoked a moral panic in Mansfield, Ohio,...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 BFI London coverage. The Summer Book opens in theaters on September 19. In Charlie McDowell’s last feature, Windfall, the ambitious (though largely unsuccessful) idea was to put the audience...

Reflecting on Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis a year later, after all the memes, hyperbolic hitpieces, and even some admiring reviews, it’s likely public opinion has solidified around it being a failure, both financially and artistically. Akin to the drubbing Coppola...

If one finds it a bit hard to endure feature-length works by Yorgos Lanthimos these days, he may have found his ideal mode of expression in (certainly well-paying) commercials. His latest project finds him teaming with Prada for a new...

If there’s a thread running through Kogonada’s films to date, it’s his distinct fascination with spare, deeply human character studies unfolding within meticulously designed worlds. As a sweeping, romantic fantasy, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is less grounded than the...