The Film Stage

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Sirat has a one-week qualifying run in NY/LA starting November 14 and opens in 2026. For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, a competition berth in Cannes has...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Telluride coverage. Jay Kelly opens in theaters on November 14 and arrives on Netflix on December 5. Let’s start here: Billy Crudup is one of our truly great actors....

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 BFI London coverage. Left-Handed Girl opens in theaters on November 14 and arrives on Netflix on November 28. The neon-lit alleyways of Taipei’s night markets have never looked quite...

As music thumps across the desert landscape of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains and ravers give themselves over to the endless bass, whispers of World War III echo in the margins. In Sirāt, Oliver Laxe’s fourth feature, pinning down exactly what the...

In order to best explain Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg––a stoic, ethereal vision quest of a film notorious among anime and cult enthusiasts for resisting explanation, and one which more readily invites comparisons to Cocteau, Tarkovsky, and Jodorowsky than other anime––it...

After last directing a feature with 2016’s A Cure for Wellness, Gore Verbinski finally returned to the director’s chair nearly a decade later with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. While originally set for a late January release, it’ll now...

Edgar Wright has mostly stayed in the pocket of action cinema since Hot Fuzz paid loving homage to the bombastic genre in 2007. But because subsequent projects like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Baby Driver maintained the same comic...

One of the most electric viewing experiences of the year was seeing Josh Safdie unveil his long-awaited return to directing, Marty Supreme, as the secret screening of the 63rd New York Film Festival. Featuring Timothée Chalamet’s title character going through...

On my last night at the Morelia International Film Festival, dinner took place at Lu, a restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine. Over rollos de jicama and tostada San Pancho, conversation ranged from TCM’s Eddie Muller on Dorothy B. Hughes, director...

It doesn’t take long to work out where you are in Last One for the Road––for the backroads of Veneto, Italy, Francesco Sossai’s delightful new movie has the unmistakable specificity of a life spent there. What you instead start to...