There’s a specific kind of warm, crowd-pleasing aesthetic–often in the coming-of-age subgenre–that seems to find a home among the Sundance programming more so t...
Following sci-fi sound effects over the opening credits on a black screen, Honey Boy begins with a hard cut on the face of Lucas Hedges as he’s pulled back on a...
Last year’s Sundance Film Festival opened with Tamara Jenkins’s Private Life, a thoughtful, witty drama exploring the struggles of infertility faced by a couple...
While the five-year stretch that comprised his first five films resulted in Xavier Dolan's rise in international prominence, the last years haven't been as ...
It is now the year of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, his star-studded drama centered on a TV actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and stuntman budd...
Four decades after its release, it’s become etched in cinema history that Ridley Scott’s Alien was a landmark achievement in not only the science-fiction genre,...
On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin embarked on a historic lunar odyssey, successfully landing on the moon and then returning to ...
An outsider's look into strange communities seem to be a running theme when it comes to Sundance premieres and the most promising one this year is Them That...
One of the least surprising bits of film news this year was that Harmony Korine would be bringing the world premiere of his new film, The Beach Bum, to SXSW...
Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.
