In 2022, Charli XCX emblazoned “they don’t build statues of critics” on a custom t-shirt––a little nudge and provocation rather than a knock-down to a great tradition of writing. And they do make (rightly) fawning documentaries about them, with Matty Wishnow’s The Last Critic premiering in SXSW’s Documentary Feature Competition and examining the pioneering music […]
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As far as dumb comedies go, Pizza Movie is a masterclass in throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. It doesn’t always land, but when it does, it really does. This is the latest production from Syracuse, NY-based American High, a company founded on making broad comedies mostly within a repurposed high school […]
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One of the great films of the year, Sho Miyake’s gorgeous, tranquil Two Seasons, Two Strangers picked up the Golden Leopard at Locarno last summer and will now get a U.S. release this April. Set for a North American premiere at New Directors/New Films on April 17 and 19, it’ll then begin its theatrical release […]
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Representing their busiest month in recent memory, June offers nine releases and eleven titles from the Criterion Collection. Perhaps of greatest note are two 4K releases for John Waters (Desperate Living and Hairspray) who, despite all this, still can’t get financing for a new movie. Jafar Panahi’s Palme-winning It Was Just An Accident comes to […]
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Take one step into the world of festivals and you’ll understand that making a movie isn’t just “making a movie.” Even if one has the fortune to get some money for the script they’ve slaved over, get some actors in front of a camera, and survive the labyrinthine editing process, a veritable mountain of tasks […]
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Jane Alexander has one of those careers that seems impossible. Four Academy Award nominations in fourteen years. A Tony Award in 1969 for the Howard Sackler play The Great White Hope. She wrote a book (Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth) and she’s won two Emmys. Criterion is […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA major Agnès Varda retrospective begins; Satyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest continues in a new restoration; a print of Jerry Lewis’ The Bellboy shows on Sunday. Museum of Modern ArtFilms by Kiarostami, Kurosawa, Fassbinder, Kathryn Bigelow, and Bertolucci play on 35mm this weekend as […]
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A parody of dialectical materialism (you’ll understand what this means when you see the film), superficial economies, and the cult of fast fashion, I Love Boosters—the second feature from rapper, activist, and filmmaker Boots Riley—proves a spirited and hilarious comedy in its first two acts before falling back on action-comedy tropes in its finale. Perhaps […]
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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. Anniversary (Jan Komasa) Jan Komasa’s Anniversary should be in the running for least-subtle movie of the year. It should also be in the running for most terrifying. This ruthlessly effective thriller […]
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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. Today, however, we talk about Oscar movies (!), or better yet, movies that remind us of Oscar movies! Conor and I […]
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