The Film Stage

Florencia Martin’s second feature collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson following Licorice Pizza and her second Oscar nomination following Babylon, One Battle After Another is a feat of instant-classic production design. From the redwood stump that Bob emerges from as he’s...

With Sundance now underway, the next major festival on our radar is Berlinale, which kicks off on February 12. Today we’re proud to present the exclusive trailer for one of the hopeful breakouts in the Generation section, Victoria Linares Villegas’...

There’s been a lot of reflection at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, the last to be held in its original home of Park City, Utah. Jay Duplass is one of many for whom the nation’s premier independent film festival has...

“Will your oceans be made of our glaciers?” Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason asks in the narration that plays over Time and Water, the beautiful new documentary from Fire of Love director Sara Dosa. Driven by Magnason’s family archives and...

We know so little about the life of Eleni (Cemre Paksoy), a nurse working in an upscale retirement community, until something awakens in her. Directed by Georgia Bernstein, the perverse thriller Night Nurse doesn’t quite qualify as a psychosexual thriller despite some...

Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear is an expansion of their 2021 short film of the same name, which followed a polar bear on its annual migration through Churchill, Manitoba, the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.” Through...

While an alum of the Sundance Film Festival, having debuted his directorial debut Sorry to Bother You there in 2018, Boots Riley is heading to SXSW for his next feature. I Love Boosters, starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige,...

A few years after her Palme d’Or- and Oscar-winning drama Anatomy of a Fall, we now have the first details on Justine Triet’s next feature. Marking her English-language debut, Fonda will star Mia Goth, Andrew Scott, Frank Dillane (who recently...

In Casper Kelly’s viral short “Too Many Cooks,” a catchy ’90s sitcom intro repeats for 11 minutes with new characters added to the name roll each time. Eventually, a serial killer looming on the edge of the frame begins hacking...

New Sam Raimi films are few and far between these days, but when one appears, the debate as to whether he’s an inherently mean-spirited director invariably rears its head. His last pure horror movie, 2009’s Drag Me to Hell, is...