The Film Stage

The Criterion Collection’s December Lineup Includes No Country for Old Men on 4K, Sammo Hung & More
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In the blink of an eye, Criterion’s 2024 is done. Though there’s still a cornucopia of discs awaiting arrival, we have a stem-stern view of this year’s line-up with today’s announcement of the December set. Entering the collection on sparkling...
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NYC Weekend Watch: A Different Man Influences, Johnnie To, Ingrid Caven & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMA Different Man director Aaron Schimberg has assembled an all-35mm retrospective of films that inspired his new feature, including work by Lynch, Lubitsch, Nicholas Ray, and Tsai; the 50th-anniversary restoration...
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New to Streaming: Red Rocket, Robot Dreams, Kneecap, Riddle of Fire & More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Civil War (Alex Garland) While bound to spark hundreds of think pieces, Alex Garland’s...
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Venice Review: Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried Emerges in From Darkness to Light
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“What if woody [sic] Allen had brain injury,” remarks the comic Adam Friedland in his rather direct Letterboxd review of Jerry Lewis’ The Ladies Man. Continuing a theme, Will Sloan also hails The Nutty Professor as a “profoundly strange object...
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Venice Review: Kevin Costner Is Going Strong With Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2
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How blessed are we to have a whole six hours of Kevin Costner’s mythopoetic Horizon already make their way to (some) audiences, especially when this project has been on his wish list since 1988? I often try to demystify festival...
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TIFF Review: Joseph Kahn’s Ick is a Riotous, Satirical Take on the Creature Feature
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The world is ending and nobody cares in Ick, Joseph Kahn’s latest genre offering after 2017’s Bodied and 2011’s Detention. Despite only making four features in 20 years, Kahn is ubiquitous in pop culture from his background in directing music...
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TIFF Review: David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers is a Frustratingly Contrived Affair
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David Gordon Green’s career is one of the most unpredictable in Hollywood. Since his masterful and celebrated debut George Washington, he’s not been shy about planting a flag in a wide variety of films––dramedies, gritty thrillers, franchise horror reboots, political...
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TIFF Review: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Has One Yearning for Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60
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“Can satire save the Republic?”— May 2017 cover story of The Atlantic featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump “Mad TV would have done a Barron Trump School Shooter skit the week after Columbine. Donald would show up in a diaper...
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TIFF Review: Tim Robinson Masters Cringe In the Hysterically Funny Friendship
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The level of enjoyment audience members will have with Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship is tied directly to their tolerance for the humor of Tim Robinson. The star of the meme-inspiring Netflix series I Think You Should Leave has cultivated a devoted...
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TIFF Review: The Quiet Ones Orchestrates a Thrilling Heist
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When Kasper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) learns his brother-in-law wants him to speak with a Moroccan friend, he knows what that conversation will entail. It probably wasn’t long ago that he’d jump at the chance, but he’s since found other means...
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