The Film Stage

In a year of strong starts, none is more astonishing than La Gradiva, the directorial debut of cinematographer Marine Atlan (Jessica Forever, The Girl in the Snow). Premiering at Cannes Critics’ Week, where it won the Grand Prize, the odyssey...

You would think that any filmmaker—no matter the Oscar nominations, an enviable ability to work with A-list stars and complete unknowns at once, several iconic films to your name, a name that is itself some kind of catch-all descriptor—would be...

If you live in New York, you know this is the best time of year for filmgoing; if you don’t, you probably realize such and just wish you were here. The 64th New York Film Festival begins this Friday, September...

In a year of strong starts, none is more astonishing than La Gradiva, the directorial debut of cinematographer Marine Atlan (Jessica Forever, The Girl in the Snow). Premiering at Cannes Critics’ Week, where it won the Grand Prize, the odyssey...

While Quentin Tarantino is doing everything possible not to direct his tenth and potentially final film (including prepping the new stage play The Popinjay Cavaliers, a 1830s Europe-set swashbuckling comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen), his latest contribution to cinema will...

Alpha Gang is an incredibly silly and charming film, the kind of high-concept comedy American directors rarely get to make anymore. Thankfully, David and Nathan Zellner (last seen with 2024’s Sasquatch Sunset) have built their careers on bold, off-kilter cinema...

“My own destruction might be exactly what I want.” – Leo Italian cinema maestro Bernardo Bertolucci died in 2018, leaving behind one unfinished screenplay. For his fourth feature, burgeoning Italian writer-director Andrea Pallaoro was given the keys to that coveted,...

Seventy-five year-old Indigenous Peruvian artist Sara Flores came to fame late in life, as she acknowledges in The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs. Yet her art and activism resonate with force and conviction in this elegiac portrait by Èlia Gasull Balada...

If you grew up with a well-worn CD of Pulp’s 1995 album Different Class, or discovered it at some point in the last three decades, then watching the band’s new documentary might cause your life to flash before your eyes....

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on September 18. Like a movie tie-in, John Wilson’s debut documentary feature, The History of Concrete, picks up immediately where his HBO...