The Film Stage

Premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival, where it received the Grand Jury Award for Best Breakout Feature, Zoë Eisenberg’s romance drama Chaperone will be getting a release this fall, opening in theaters in Hawaii on September 11 ahead of an October 3 digital premiere....

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 BFI London coverage. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass opens in theaters on August 29. Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2023 Sundance coverage. A Little Prayer opens in theaters on August 29, 2025. In the quiet, peaceful mornings that ease your way into writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s A Little Prayer, a...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Love, Brooklyn opens in theaters on August 29. You can feel the warm breeze filtering through Love, Brooklyn, a gentle, dream-like summer movie that often teeters on the...

In the ever-intensifying dance between seen and being seen, where surveillance has become both a threat and an intimate gesture, Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua continues to push cinematic boundaries. Building on the Lynchian mystery of A Land Imagined, which...

In something of a rare feat, all three of the most prominent European film festivals chose the works of homegrown talents to kick off their latest edition. Earlier this year, German director Tom Tykwer opened Berlinale with The Light; French...

One of the most rewarding things about falling in love with a film is then falling in love with all of the things that inspired its creation. What are the books, plays, music, and paintings that fueled this work of...

After premiering her documentary feature GES-2 at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, Nastia Korkia returns to the festival this year with her narrative feature debut Short Summer. The coming-of-age tale, set in Russia amid a raging war in the backdrop, will...

Premiering at the Venice Film Festival last fall, where it picked up a few awards, Elizabeth Lo’s documentary Mistress Dispeller captures the unique profession of a woman in China who makes it her life’s duty to break up affairs, helping...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Motel Destino opens in theaters on August 29. Simply put, Brazilian motels are places for people to have sex. Everyone knows it, no one objects to it....