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Sam Raimi Finally Returns to Horror in First Trailer for Send Help

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 1h

Sam Raimi is returning to horror for the first time in nearly two decades. Watch the first trailer for Send Help:

For fans of Sam Raimi in horror-thriller mode, the starvation has been real. In the nearly two decades since 2009's Drag Me to Hell, the Evil Dead director has spent his talents in the worlds of Oz an...

Rebuilding Trailer: Josh O’Connor Reassambles His Life

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 2h

The third of four films starring Josh O’Connor to get a release this fall has its first trailer. Watch:

The third of four films starring Josh O'Connor to get a fall release, Max Walker-Silverman's A Love Song follow-up Rebuilding premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and will now arr...

Juliette Binoche Reflects on Working with Krzysztof Kieślowski at Busan International Film Festival

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 3h

Juliette Binoche revealed Krzysztof Kieślowski had planned to start another film trilogy about paradise, purgatory, and hell before his untimely death in 1996. Read more from her Busan Film Festival press conference:

In 2008, Juliette Binoche paired with dancer Akram Khan for in-i, an experimental dance work about a couple's dissolving relationship. They performed the piece 120 times in theaters around the world. ...

BFI London Review: Bad Apples Sets Saoirse Ronan in a Twisty Thriller

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4h

The Saoirse Ronan-led Bad Apples offers a damning political indictment disguised as a fun, twisty thriller.

Read @yesitsalistair.bsky.social's London Film Festival review:

To international viewers, Bad Apples will play like a conventional dark comedy about a schoolteacher pushed too far by a student; to Brits, it’s a scorched Earth takedown of a state education system t...

The Hyperboreans Review: Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s Warning Against Political Amnesia

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 23h

The work of one of Portugal's greatest filmmakers is finally restored and coming to MoMA this weekend. Watch our exclusive trailer debut for João César Monteiro: Symphonies of a Libertine: thefilmstage.com/exclusive-tr...

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 1d

Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña's The Hyperboreans is now streaming on Film Movement.

Read @savinapetkova.bsky.social's review:

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. The Hyperboreans is now streaming on Film Movement+. “We humans are capable of greatness,” reads the first line in Crist...

Kiss of the Spider Woman Review: Jennifer Lopez in Top Form

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 2d

Jennifer Lopez is in top form in Kiss of the Spider Woman. It’s mesmerizing to watch her dance, commanding the screen, fully in her element.

Read @judysquirrels.bsky.social's review:

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Kiss of the Spider Woman arrives in theaters on October 10. In their dark, damp prison quarters, Malina (Tonatiuh) and...

NYFF Review: Is This Thing On? Finds Bradley Cooper Making a Gentle Film About Marital Strife

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 2d

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 2d

Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is a gentle film about marital strife, conveyed with a stripped-down aesthetic.

Read our NYFF review:

Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? opens with a simple, incredibly complex question: is this thing over? Alex and Tess Novak (Will Arnett and Laura Dern) are at their wits’ end after decades of marria...

New to Streaming: Cloud, Afternoons of Solitude, The Baltimorons, Lurker & More

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud on the Criterion Channel, Albert Serra's Afternoons of Solitude on digital, and more streaming picks of the week.

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. Afternoons of Solitude (Al...

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk Trailer: One of 2025’s Most Heartbreaking Documentaries

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is both a powerful testament of living through terror and a damning cry for the Israeli government to stop destroying innocent lives.

Watch the new trailer ahead a November release:

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...

A House of Dynamite Review: A Ruthlessly Effective Thriller

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite is a scarier, less preachy movie than the likes of Don’t Look Up, but it’s no less didactic or unsubtle in what it’s trying to say. Read @roryseanoc.bsky.social's review:

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. A House of Dynamite arrives in theaters on October 10 and on Netflix on October 24. If human life were to essentially gr...

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

Looking for something to see this weekend? Watch One Battle After Another for a third time, plus films from Kathryn Bigelow, Mary Bronstein, Harris Dickinson, and more:

Looking for what to see in theaters? Our feature, updated weekly, highlights our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restorations receiving a proper theatrical ru...

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

One of the essential documentaries of the year, #ThePerfectNeighbor is an indictment of stand-your-ground laws and an account of apathetic policing.

Read @jpraup.bsky.social's review as the film arrives in theaters this weekend and comes to Netflix next week: thefilmstage.com/sundance-rev...

Urchin Review: A Thoughtful and Adventurous Directorial Debut from Harris Dickinson

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

Rose Byrne gives a career-best performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a tense nightmare of never-ending movement and exhaustion.

Read @judysquirrels.bsky.social's review: thefilmstage.com/sundance-rev...

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

In his directorial debut #Urchin, Harris Dickinson blends issue-driven social realism with the trendier look of a Safdie film.

Read @roryseanoc.bsky.social's review:

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Urchin arrives in theaters on October 10. A few scenes into Urchin, we take a trip through the Bardo. First the camera (...

Roofman Review: Derek Cianfrance Succesfully Navigates a Tricky Tonal Balance

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 5d

Channing Tatum oozes charisma in Derek Cianfrance's Roofman, and you’re reminded of what a better actor he actually is than most Academy Award-winning A-listers.

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. Roofman arrives in theaters on October 10. Derek Cianfrance’s place in the current American cinema landscape might be some...

After the Hunt Review: A Regressive, Unimaginative Take on Post-MeToo Era

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 5d

If there’s anything genuinely uncomfortable about Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, it’s not button-pushing issues but the reactionary way it squanders them.

Read @leonardogoi.bsky.social's review:

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. After the Hunt arrives in theaters on October 10. “It’s a fucking minefield, Alma,” the Dean of Humanities at Yale warns...

NYFF Review: In Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, Ben Stiller Interrogates His Parents’ Life and Careers

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 5d

Ben Stiller's Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost is a sentimental and ruminative documentary, showing a director and son willing to be vulnerable and interrogate his own role within his family.

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About halfway through his sentimental and ruminative documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, director Ben Stiller reveals that his parents––actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara––spent the majorit...

Ronan Day-Lewis on Bringing Daniel Day-Lewis Back to Cinema with Anemone

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 5d

"My parents showed me Kes when I was really young. I was five years old. That was one of the early memories I have of just being completely devastated by a film."

Ronan Day-Lewis talks about what it was like to collaborate with his father for Anemone:

One October after Lebron and Bronny James made history as the first father-son duo to play on the same NBA team, Daniel Day-Lewis has come out of retirement to star in his son’s debut feature, Anemone...

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 5d

The full trailer for Jim Jarmusch's Golden Lion winner Father Mother Sister Brother has arrived ahead of a Christmas release.

Watch: thefilmstage.com/father-mothe...

NYFF Review: Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai Poses Questions on Filmmaking Tensions

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 5d

Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai examines misinterpretation amidst societal tension when it comes to the filmmaking process.

German director Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai attempts to play upon its title, focusing on the idea of misunderstanding. Gavagai, a made-up word popularized by philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, looks at ...

Obex Trailer: Albert Birney’s Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Feature Constructs an Imaginative World

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 6d

Strawberry Mansion director Albert Birney is back with Obex, a lo-fi, sci-fi feature of big imagination. Watch the new trailer ahead of a 2026 release:

Following up the imaginative Strawberry Mansion with another DIY-style adventure, Albert Birney returned to Sundance Film Festival earlier this year with OBEX, a film that should delight fans of David...