The Film Stage

If you’ve ever encountered tween bullying, you’ll know that, long before it gets personal, the process of picking out a target begins by being as annoying as possible; the first person to get ground down by this is easily the...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. It currently feels like I open every end-of-year roundup lamenting the death of cinema, film criticism, or...

A biography told with startling focus and immediacy, The Testament of Ann Lee documents the life of the founder of the Shakers in the 18th century. Alternating between brutal violence and ecstatic epiphanies, it’s a movie that commands attention. Written...

Coming in at number 23 on our list of the 100 most-anticipated films of 2025, Christopher Nolan’s epic The Odyssey looks like quite the blank check project in a career of blank checks. Now, after some theatrical-only teases, Universal Pictures...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. The year 2025 was, for me, the first in my memory in which movies didn’t mean much....

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. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) If you were handed over the man...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. IFC CenterThe entirety of Twin Peaks begins screening; It’s a Wonderful Life plays daily; Tales from the Hood, The Doom Generation, Mandy, Bug, and Thief show late. Museum of the Moving ImageA New Leaf, Looking for Mr. Goodbar,...

Following part one of our 2026 movie preview, we’re counting down our 50 most-anticipated films of the year. 50. Sheep in the Box and Look Back (Hirokazu Kore-eda) With eight features alone between 2013-2023 (at least five of them bona fide...

With the New Year upon us, it’s time for our annual tradition of looking at the cinematic horizon. Having highlighted the films we guarantee are worth seeing in 2026 and those we hope get U.S. distribution, we now venture into the unknown. We dug...

Following up his first English-language feature, Pedro Almodóvar is readying his next feature, the Spanish-language Bitter Christmas (translated from Amarga Navidad) for a March 20 release in Spain and likely robust festival tour to follow. Led by Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón,...