The Film Stage

Christian Gallichio The Film Stage Oct 21, 2026 A dense, probing, ultimately terrifying exploration of the world’s richest man. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Alistair Ryder The Film Stage Oct 16, 2026 This isn’t a naive depiction of a triumph against the system, but a small, hard-won administrative victory within a system that kept putting up new roadblocks long after it passed. It’s as grounded as a Hollywoodized iteration of this narrative could be. Go to Full Review Being Heumann (2026) 86% - -

Dan Mecca The Film Stage Oct 15, 2026 Throughout the documentary, U. G. Krishnamurti mostly seems genuine in his non-beliefs, while his followers seem earnestly curious and thoughtful in their pursuit of modesty. And Dougherty is frankly brave to offer up a film with no good answers. Go to Full Review The Natural State (2026) - - - -

Nick Newman The Film Stage Oct 13, 2026 [You Can See Everything enters] a cocktail-napkin-sized pantheon of films that succeed so brilliantly on the basis of failure. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 98% - -

Devan Suber The Film Stage Oct 13, 2026 Maybe it won’t supplant your favorite version, but it’s an entertaining, well-crafted take that more than stands on its own, as much a springboard for those involved as it is a delight to watch. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 76% - -

Alistair Ryder The Film Stage Oct 12, 2026 It’s a reminder of the magic and terror of the classic fantasy stories we grew up with, recaptured on a breathtaking scale. It’s among the best animated films in recent memory. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 100% - -

Alistair Ryder The Film Stage Oct 12, 2026 The Liberation is Nattiv’s strongest effort to date, but that’s not saying much, as it’s thanks to an almost uniformly excellent ensemble elevating his material. He remains as clumsy as ever in transforming his stories into incisive social commentary. Go to Full Review The Liberation (2026) 81% - -

Luke Hicks The Film Stage Oct 11, 2026 Behemoth! presents more like a winding, tangenting letter than a cohesive narrative, similar to the way reading a series of diary entries might amount to a character study. Go to Full Review Behemoth! (2026) 87% - -

Jake Kring-Schreifels The Film Stage Oct 11, 2026 As Tere will be reminded throughout the rest of this wry, knowing, minimalist comedy of manners, she’s always at the mercy of other men’s schedules, preferences, and selective ears. Go to Full Review Everything Else Is Noise (2026) 100% - -

Alistair Ryder The Film Stage Oct 10, 2026 Bird and co-screenwriter Matthew Robbins have crafted an impeccable script where every small world-building detail they introduce pays off by the finale, the chaotic energy of the story hiding just how neatly, meticulously constructed it all is. Go to Full Review Ray Gunn (2026) 94% - -

David Katz The Film Stage Oct 8, 2026 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. Read @davidfabiankatz's #NYFF64 review: Go to Full Review Edward Said: Between Worlds (2026) 94% - -

Luke Hicks The Film Stage Oct 7, 2026 For how deep the uncanny cuts in Artificial, for how off-putting the topic and people can be, it all feels calculatedly intentional. These are unsettling subjects, after all. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Kent M. Wilhelm The Film Stage Oct 7, 2026 While [Sorkin's] penchant for conflict and discovery is a winning match for a biographical thriller, his affinity for classical Hollywood storytelling is so off-key for this moment as to feel tone-deaf. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Jake Kring-Schreifels The Film Stage Oct 6, 2026 What Can’t Be Mentioned begets another uncomfortable comedy of manners and human interaction. Go to Full Review What Can't Be Mentioned (2026) - - - -

Kent M. Wilhelm The Film Stage Oct 6, 2026 It’s a portrait of an idiosyncratic artist who’s outlasted nearly everything from his past except his dreams. Go to Full Review The Loneliest Man in Town (2026) 93% - -

Kent M. Wilhelm The Film Stage Oct 5, 2026 One More Time is a personal document that looks back at the work of three accomplished thespians and reckons in the present with their shared mortality. Go to Full Review One More Time (2026) - - - -

Michael Frank The Film Stage Oct 2, 2026 The geopolitical underpinnings of the film work as a reminder of what war causes and continues to cause. But it’s still a Godzilla movie, and Yamazaki scales up the action to blaring, symphonic proportions. Go to Full Review Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) 96% - -

Luke Hicks The Film Stage Sep 30, 2026 NAZA is urgent, an essential film, a living document in conversation with the most pressing issue in the world right now. And it’s the new foremost authority on what’s happening on a granular, behind-the-scenes level in Israel’s crusade against Gaza. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Alistair Ryder The Film Stage Sep 30, 2026 A movie where the admirable satirical boldness appears further devoid of insight the more removed one gets. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Ankit Jhunjhunwala The Film Stage Sep 29, 2026 C- To the last, tone remains soporific and sour, and the dialogue, such as there is in this visually oriented film, remains repetitive, unrevealing, without insight. Go to Full Review Idda (2026) 91% - -