The Film Stage

There’s a bit of everything this month, from the new Paul Thomas Anderson to a final final chapter to Downton Abbey to Ed and Lorraine Warren’s last ride. Add a couple debuts straight from this week’s Toronto International Film Festival...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Sundance coverage. Realm of Satan is now avaiable digitally. Made in collaboration with the Church of Satan, as stated in its opening titles, Scott Cumming’s Realm of Satan doesn’t...

“There is no reason why a kid from a family of gangsters couldn’t be the reincarnation of Dante Alighieri,” reads Julian Schnabel’s director’s statement on his new film, In the Hand of Dante. Such boastful aplomb is indicative of the...

We’re now just a few weeks away from the main event of the fall: the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated One Battle After Another. The director has now chimed in with a special note regarding VistaVision and 70mm...

Father Mother Sister Brother offers three movies for the price of one. The first is set on a frosty lakeside in the home of a man (Tom Waits) who’s visited by another (Adam Driver). The second pulls up in a...

If it feels like 28 Years Later just came out, that’s because the film released on June 20 and today is September 3. But time waits for no man (especially when the zombies are running that fast) and Nia DaCosta’s...

If human life were to essentially grind to a halt tomorrow, would it be due to a) the itchy trigger finger of a military hothead, b) the low accuracy rate of even the best interceptor missiles, or c) some other...

If one peruses our 50-title fall movie preview, there shouldn’t be too many surprises for narrowing down what to see in September. But with our most-anticipated film of the entire year arriving this month, along with some early autumn gems,...

It is fascinating what the human mind will allow. Riefenstahl, a documentary directed by Andres Veiel about the life of Leni Riefenstahl, explores the rationalizations the filmmaker allowed herself in order to explain her collaborations with the Nazi Party in...

Fall-festival season invariably crowds-out some of its finer offerings. For all the sturm und drang surrounding a studio’s middling and formulaic awards hopeful, the same festival might screen a blissfully experimental feature that, despite actually achieving something new with narrative...