Festivals: New York Film Fest
New York 2025 Review: THE SECRET AGENT, Stylish, Inventive Political Thriller on the Intricacies of Historical Memory
Kleber Mendonça Filho's epic stars Wagner Moura.
New York 2025 Review: TWO PROSECUTORS, Hell Is Legal Evil
Sergei Loznitsa's film stars Alexander Kuznetsov.
New York 2025 Review: IS THIS THING ON?, Bradley Cooper Adapts an Old Joke About the Lengths Men Can Go to Avoid Therapy
Will Arnett and Laura Dern star.
New York 2025 Review: A PRIVATE LIFE, The Adventures of an American Psychiatrist in France
Jodie Foster stars (speaking French) in Rebecca Zlotowski's murder mystery.
New York 2025 Review: JAY KELLY, Underwhelming Tale of the Existential Woes of Stardom
George Clooney stars, with Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, and Emily Mortimer, who wrote the script with director Noah Baumbach.
New York 2025 Review: Bi Gan's RESURRECTION Rethinks Cinema History
With just his first two features, Bi Gan won a place in world cinema. Kaili Blues and Long Day's Journey into Night grabbed attention more for Bi's visual style than for what the movies were saying. With Resurrection, the writer...
New York 2025 Review: SOUND OF FALLING, Girls, Interrupted
Mascha Schilinski’s second feature, Sound of Falling, which premiered at Cannes earlier this year, where it won the Jury Prize, is one of those films, the charm of which is very hard to articulate clearly to an unsuspecting potential viewer...
New York 2025 Review: MIROIRS NO. 3, Haunted By the Idea of a Perfect Family
Paula Beer stars in Christian Petzold's new film. As the title suggests, everything is a reflection of what should have been. It's the idea of a perfect family that haunts his characters.
New York 2025 Review: THE FENCE, Commercial Colonialism, Filled With Sensuality and Lyricism
Matt Dillon, Tom Blyth and Isaach De Bankolé star in Claire Denis' new film.
New York 2025 Review: A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, The Last Minutes of the World As We Know It
On a seemingly ordinary morning, a nuclear missile is launched somewhere out of the Pacific Ocean and is on a trajectory to hit Chicago in about 20 minutes. On a military base in Alaska, the officers who first detected the...
New York 2025 Review: PETER HUJAR'S DAY, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man in 1970s NYC
Ira Sachs' newest film stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall.
New York 2025 Review: LATE FAME, Tender, Bittersweet Dramedy About Horrors of Needing Validation
Willem DaFoe, Edmund Donovan, and Greta Lee star in Kent Jones' sophomore feature.
New York 2025 Review: AFTER THE HUNT, Psychological Drama Aims at Everything at Once, Misses All the Targets
Julia Roberts, Andew Garfield, Ayo Edibiri, Michael Stuhlberg, and Chloe Sevigny star in Luca Guadagnino's new drama.
New York 2025 Review: THE MASTERMIND, Underwhelming Genre Exercise
Josh O'Connor, Alana Haim, John Magaro star in Kelly Reichardt's new film.
New York 2025 Review: PIN DE FARTIE, Choreographed Verbal Farewells
Laura Paredes, Marcos Ferrante and Santigo Gobernori star in Argentine director Alejo Moguillansky's film.
New York 2025 Review: DRACULA, Sucking the Blood of the Proletariat
Radu Jude directs a decidedly and intentionally bad movie.
New York 2024 Review: WHO BY FIRE (COMME LE FEU), Bad Times at the Cabin in the Woods
Does anything good ever come out of vacationing in the woods? In genre cinema, going away for a weekend to a remote location is a recipe for all kinds of unpleasantness to happen. In festival dramas – eh, it usually...
New York 2024 Review: SUBURBAN FURY, The Truth is Still Out There in This Captivating Documentary Thriller
Even with all the collective force of human imagination, evidenced by books, scripts and conspiracy theories, nothing can be as wonderfully and sometimes scarily incredible as reality. Some history lessons, even seemingly lesser ones, are so genuinely wild it’s hard...
New York 2024 Review: TRANSAMAZONIA, Uneven But Poignant Coming-of-Age Story
A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle leaving a sole survivor, a five-year-old child named Rebecca, who is then saved just in time by an Indigenous Iruaté man. Nine years pass, and Rebecca (Helena Zengel) is now widely known as...
New York 2024 Interview: Paul Schrader on Realizing Russell Banks' OH, CANADA
In Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, adapted from Russell Banks’ Foregone, a renowned documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife subjects himself to a filmed interview while battling the throes of death. This final interview, to be captured by a former pupil turned...
