The Film Stage

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 TIFF coverage. Souleymane’s Story opens in theaters on August 1. Souleymane’s Story delivers a political fable with all the grit and urgency of a thriller. It follows a Guinean...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Locarno coverage. The Sparrow in the Chimney opens in theaters on August 1. There’s something electrifying about watching a filmmaker break free from well-worn formulas and push themselves into...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Harvest opens in theaters on August 1 and arrives on MUBI on August 8. An unnamed village, an unknown time; somewhere in Britain, sometime in the Late...

One of the most-discussed films premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it went on to win the Audience Award, James Sweeney’s Twinless will now arrive on September 5 from Roadside Attractions. With Sweeney starring alongside Dylan O’Brien, Lauren...

Living up to its title, Rachael Abigail Holder’s Love, Brooklyn is a lovely romance that finds André Holland navigating modern relationships. Also starring Nicole Beharie, DeWanda Wise, Roy Wood Jr., Cassandra Freeman, and Cadence Reese, the Sundance premiere was picked...

Following their Opening Night and Centerpiece announcements, Film at Lincoln Center has now announced Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? as the Closing Night selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival, making its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall on...

After years of directing shorts and collaborating with Jean-Luc Godard on his final films, Swiss director Fabrice Aragno will premiere his directorial debut at the Locarno Film Festival. Le Lac, a 75-minute feature starring Clotilde Courau and Bernard Stamm, will...

Based on the novel by Jordan Harper, with a screenplay by Harper and Ben Collins & Luke Piotrowski, and directed by Nick Rowland, She Rides Shotgun is a punchy, elemental thriller featuring Taron Egerton in an intense, engaging lead role....

Following The Favourite, Bleat, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and the forthcoming Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos has released his sixth collaboration with Emma Stone. This time, it’s their first music video. Jerskin Fendrix (composer of Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and...

Few people have contributed more to cinema and cinephilia in the last 50 years than Dave Kehr. He’d have some claim to this title solely as a major critical voice, his work remaining currency decades hence––just look at the popular...