The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyAn imported print of Yukio Mishima’s Patriotism screens alongside Koji Wakamatsu’s The Woman Who Wanted to Die on Friday. Film ForumHitchcock & Herrmann begins; Animal Crackers plays this Sunday. Museum of...

With an awards season and year-end lists that tend to favor films that have been released in the last few months, many things can go overlooked. For our yearly feature highlighting the 50 best titles you might have missed––arriving before...

Our year-end coverage continues with a look at the best performances on film of 2025. Rather than divide categories into supporting or lead or by gender, we’ve written about our 30 favorites, period. (Well: a few more, if you add...

If you read the headline of this review and are shocked that this is the first time you’re hearing that not only did Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet direct a movie, but it’s being released right now and in two weeks...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Resurrection opens in theaters on December 12. Few filmmakers with just two features under their belt can amass the passionate, cinephilic following of Bi Gan. His blend...

The first taste of what independent cinema has to offer in 2026 has arrived with the unveiling of the Sundance Film Festival lineup. Taking place January 22–February 1, 2026, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with the...

We have almost reached the end of 2025, and there is a lot to get to, starting with books on an unmade Charlie Chaplin film, memories from Sir Roger Deakins, and the making of Guillermo del Toro’s latest and (in...

After the one-two absurdist comedy punch of Sick of Myself and Dream Scenario, Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli is returning this spring with The Drama, the first of three films starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya next year, preceding the latest from...

Few figures of contemporary cinema are more shrouded in mystery than Bi Gan, and no film this year posed a bigger question mark than Resurrection, his seven-years-hence Long Days Journey Into Night follow-up that had been subject to much speculation...

“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist—moving an audience through a movie […] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,” said the late, great Gordon Willis. As our year-end coverage continues, we must...