LAIKA Studios' #Wildwood is among the best animated films in recent memory—more Brothers Grimm by way of Tolkien than Disney.
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@thefilmstage.com@thefilmstage.comCarrie Coon gives a characteristically terrific performance in Guy Nattiv's otherwise clumsy cult drama #TheLiberation.
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@thefilmstage.comEmmanuel Marre’s A Man of His Time captures a banal existence as just one more gear in that great tapestry of evil called Nazism.
@thefilmstage.comCheck out our exclusive poster premiere for Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz's The Friend's House Is Here, opening at New York’s @filmforumnyc.bsky.social on December 4 ahead of a nationwide theatrical release.
@thefilmstage.comThe poster for Quentin Tarantino’s first play, opening this February in London.
@thefilmstage.comTony Gilroy takes a fresh approach with Behemoth!, constructing a winding yet riveting narrative that works best when focused on the music.
@thefilmstage.comChris Rock's #MistyGreen is a Hollywood satire with no insight and a character study with no character.
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@thefilmstage.comNicolás Pereda's Everything Else Is Noise is a wry, knowing, and minimalist comedy of manners in which women fight to be heard.
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@thefilmstage.com#RayGunn finds Brad Bird back at his best, with rich and thorny ideas hidden beneath a joyously crowd-pleasing adventure.
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@thefilmstage.comWith the 2026 Downtown Festival beginning today, founder Rebekah Sherman-Myntti tells Nick Newman about creating a showcase that honors legacy and discovery:
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@thefilmstage.comThe strength of the subjects' convictions is the driving force behind Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, showcasing the urge to never forget that history is made here and now.
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@thefilmstage.comRenate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan are terrific in Cristian Mungiu's #Fjord, playing a conservative matriarch and patriarch with a gentle, hushed desperation, quaking in the wake of losing their five children.
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@thefilmstage.comFilms by Jane Schoenbrun, Kent Jones, Stillz, Yeon Sang-ho, and Steven Spielberg are among our streaming picks of the week.
@thefilmstage.comA new Hou Hsiao-hsien restoration and more films to see in NYC this weekend.
@thefilmstage.comWinner of the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, J.M. Harper’s #SoulPatrol tells the story of the Vietnam War’s first Black special operations team.
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@thefilmstage.comMaiken Baird’s Edward Said: Between Worlds is a concise primer on one of the most consequential academic thinkers of the late 20th century, and arrives to audiences more sensitized than ever to the Palestinian cause.
@thefilmstage.comEleanor Coppola captures her daughter at work in the first trailer for Making Marie Antoinette, arriving this month.
@thefilmstage.com"I don’t have anything against enjoying The Odyssey, but you won’t necessarily get more answers about how to fix the society of today. So it’s good to have some sort of diversity, and I count on you telling people that I’m not defending any ideology in particular."
Cristian Mungiu on #Fjord:
@thefilmstage.comIn Luca Guadagnino's #Artificial, Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman as if he has some AI in him, guiding the unsettling portrait of our dark future and providing a spiritual sequel that David Fincher’s The Social Network deserves.