The Film Stage

There is no film you’ll see this year, or even decade, quite like Bi Gan’s Resurrection, which finds the director following Kaili Blues and Long Day’s Journey Into Night with a dizzyingly ambitious anthology starring the great Shu Qi. Ahead of a...

Following up last year’s acclaimed drama The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet returned this year with The Testament of Ann Lee, this time with the former directing and the latter co-writing. Led by Amanda Seyfried in a career-defining performance,...

Richard Linklater works at such a pace that, with two films now in theaters, it’s a little surprising there hasn’t been word on the next thing. For some time, though, he’s been planning a film concerning transcendentalism, a literary movement...

If one wished the Bond series oozed buckets more style, look no further than Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s wild new spy thriller Reflection in a Dead Diamond. Premiering back at Berlinale earlier this year, it’ll now get a theatrical...

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where it picked up the Grand Jury Prize, Hailey Benton Gates’ debut feature Atropia has taken some time to find distribution. However, the Luca Guadagnino-produced satire starring Shawkat, Callum Turner, Zahra...

In Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence is Grace, a writer whose life is disrupted when the arrival of a baby leads to a move to the sticks of Montana to be closer to the family of her husband Jackson (Robert...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Peter Hujar’s Day opens in theaters on November 7. When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen Ginsburg, taken on December 18, 1974, it’s strikingly...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. Nuremberg opens in theaters on November 7. Stanley Kubrick, in one of the most famous director disses ever, remarked that the failing of his friend Steven Spielberg’s...

A world-cinema fixture who’s earned the support of Martin Scorsese, M. Night Shyamalan, Olivier Assayas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Béla Tarr, Claire Denis, Christian Petzold, Tilda Swinton, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi––among many others––Carlo Chatrian reshaped the festival landscape with his work as artistic...

One of the most heartbreaking documentaries of the year, Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk premiered at Cannes just weeks after the Israeli occupation murdered the film’s subject, 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Constructed...