It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2025––another prolific year in which he released two films and premiered another––he still got plenty of watching in. Along with catching up on 2025’s new releases (One Battle After Another, It Was […] The post Everything Steven Soderbergh Watched and Read in 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. My feelings from the intro of my top ten of 2024 haven’t changed much. I found 2025 to have a fair amount of good films, but only a few got a strong […] The post C.J. Prince’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, the feature debut from artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, aims to foreground its primary literary material and […] The post New to Streaming: Paul Thomas Anderson,_Happyend_ , _Dracula_ , _The Naked Gun_ & More first appeared on The Film Stage.

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. IFC CenterA Panahi / Kiarostami retrospective begins; a 4K restoration of Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos starts a run; the entirety of Twin Peaks continues; Clockers, The Game, Tales from the Hood, and Speed Racer, show late. Roxy CinemaGus Van Sant’s Elephant and Drugstore Cowboy play on 35mm; Good Will Hunting also screens. […] The post NYC Weekend Watch: Panahi & Kiarostami, _Elephant_ , _Sorcerer_ & More first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 2025 got off to a bang early with a double-header of distinctly delicious Steven Soderbergh genre exercises in the haunted house story Presence and the espionage thriller Black Bag. Things never really […] The post Mitchell Beaupre’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

While waiting for the Generative AI bubble to burst, it’s essential to highlight art from real people doing real work rather than “massaging” a text prompt to eventually look almost like what they wish they could create themselves. As movie-poster industry has recently pivoted hard into the realm of individual artists working on a case-by-case […] The post The Best Movie Posters of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Earlier this year, my dad, Alan, died at the age of 61. He was the funniest and kindest man I’ve ever known, and, most relevant to this article, he was the one […] The post Oliver Weir’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

As we continue to explore the best in 2025, today we’re taking a look at the articles that you, our dear readers, enjoyed the most throughout the past twelve months. Spanning reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, check out the highlights below and return for more year-end coverage. Most-Read Reviews 1. Anniversary by Rory […] The post The Film Stage’s Most-Read Posts of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Another year, another attempt to sum up cinema from the last 12 months. From where I stand, it’s been a solid year for films. While there weren’t many I’d rush to call […] The post Zhuo-Ning Su’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Despite having its detractors (Lav Diaz among them), I find list-making to be quite a healthy, pleasurable exercise for a critic to practice. After watching almost 200 films, it’s vital to check […] The post Nirris Nagendrarajah’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageE.T. and a print of Catch Me If You Can offer a Spielberg double-bill on Saturday, when Muppet Christmas Carol also screens. IFC CenterThe entirety of Twin Peaks continues; In the Mood for Love and In the Mood for Love 2001, Tales from the […] The post NYC Weekend Watch: _Catch Me If You Can_ , _The Lost Weekend_ , _The Spirit of the Beehive_ & More first appeared on The Film Stage.

Over the past half-century, production designer Jack Fisk has collaborated with a who’s who of writer-directors, including Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Brian De Palma, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. A few years ago, when he recreated 1920s Fairfax, Oklahoma for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, it came as a bit of […] The post Jack Fisk on Creating an Authentic 1950s New York for _Marty Supreme_ and Josh Safdie’s Drive first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. In a year of tumultuous upheaval for Hollywood, this year proved that no matter the profit-driven ways powerful executives erode the very craft they purport to hold near and dear, filmmakers will […] The post Jordan Raup’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

With The Testament of Ann Lee, writer-director Mona Fastvold and team continue the big swing Herzogian mindset present on last year’s The Brutalist, which she also co-wrote and co-produced with partner Brady Corbet. Whether shooting in Hungary for cheaper set builds or prioritizing sheep over human extras, Fastvold, Corbet, and producer Andrew Morrison ensure nearly […] The post Mona Fastvold on _The Testament of Ann Lee_ , Refusing to Compromise, and Cinematic Traditions first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. All but one of the films listed below premiered at a festival. Despite claims to the contrary, 2025 was an exemplary year for cinema, with several major contributions from directors, renowned and […] The post Ankit Jhunjhunwala’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

Exit Elena, Stinking Heaven, and Thirst Street didn’t do much to prepare one for Nathan Silver’s mainstream ascendance. That last year’s Between the Temples pulled the über-difficult trick of maintaining sensibilities in the guise of a movie your parents would enjoy still doesn’t square with Jimmy Fallon pretending to know Silver’s work—except for him having […] The post “Maybe Sometimes Something Works”: Nathan Silver on _Carol & Joy_ first appeared on The Film Stage.

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss America’s everyman and one of its most indelible movie stars: James Stewart! Our returning guest is our dear friend Mitchell Beaupre, Head of […] The post The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre) first appeared on The Film Stage.

If you’ve ever encountered tween bullying, you’ll know that, long before it gets personal, the process of picking out a target begins by being as annoying as possible; the first person to get ground down by this is easily the most psychologically susceptible. The Plague, the debut of writer-director Charlie Polinger, operates in the same […] The post _The Plague_ Review: Bullying Drama of Paranoia Requries Suspension of Disbelief first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. It currently feels like I open every end-of-year roundup lamenting the death of cinema, film criticism, or both. And there are reasons to be pessimistic about both; you already know about the […] The post Alistair Ryder’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

A biography told with startling focus and immediacy, The Testament of Ann Lee documents the life of the founder of the Shakers in the 18th century. Alternating between brutal violence and ecstatic epiphanies, it’s a movie that commands attention. Written by Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, who collaborated on The Brutalist, and directed by Fastvold, […] The post _The Testament of Ann Lee_ Cinematographer William Rexer on Capturing the Dance and Believing in Mona Fastvold first appeared on The Film Stage.

Coming in at number 23 on our list of the 100 most-anticipated films of 2025, Christopher Nolan’s epic The Odyssey looks like quite the blank check project in a career of blank checks. Now, after some theatrical-only teases, Universal Pictures has now unveiled the first trailer they’ve released online. Here’s the brief synopsis: “Christopher Nolan’s […] The post _The Odyssey_ Trailer Teases Christopher Nolan’s Mythic Epic first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. The year 2025 was, for me, the first in my memory in which movies didn’t mean much. Well, mostly. Outside of parenting, work, home ownership, and general worrying, my pop culture ponderings […] The post Christopher Schobert’s Top 10 Films of 2025 first appeared on The Film Stage.

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) If you were handed over the man who destroyed your life and those of countless others––a psychopath who tortured, raped, and murdered […] The post New to Streaming: _One Battle After Another_ , _It Was Just an Accident_ , _Song to Song_ , _The Running Man_ & More first appeared on The Film Stage.

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. IFC CenterThe entirety of Twin Peaks begins screening; It’s a Wonderful Life plays daily; Tales from the Hood, The Doom Generation, Mandy, Bug, and Thief show late. Museum of the Moving ImageA New Leaf, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Clint Eastwood’s Breezy show on 35mm as part of American Woman, while a print of Crossing […] The post NYC Weekend Watch: _Twin Peaks_ , _Breezy_ , Gus Van Sant, Ken Jacobs & More first appeared on The Film Stage.

Following part one of our 2026 movie preview, we’re counting down our 50 most-anticipated films of the year. 50. Sheep in the Box and Look Back (Hirokazu Kore-eda) With eight features alone between 2013-2023 (at least five of them bona fide greats, and that’s not taking into account the ten-plus films before then), the Japanese Palme […] The post The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2026: Part Two first appeared on The Film Stage.