Tag: newyorkfilmfestival
New York 2026 Review: MY WIFE CRIES, Love Abstractions
Agathe Bonitzer and Vladimir Vulevic star in Angela Schanelec's new film.
New York 2026 Review: A LONG WINTER, Hauntingly Beautiful Drama of Longing for a Change
Director Andrew Haigh's new drama stars Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Caitríona Balfe.
New York 2026 Review: POSSIBLE LOVE Examines Class Divide
It's surely one of the finest films of the year, and yet another masterpiece by Lee Chang-dong.
New York 2026 Review: NAZA, AI-Assisted Genocide
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor directed the documentary. Once we delegate our moral obligation to AI, we've already lost whatever we are fighting for.
New York 2026 Review: PAPER TIGER, No Crime, Yet Punishment
Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson star in director James Gray's crime thriller.
New York 2026 Kicks Off Tonight With PAPER TIGER
The 64th edition of the New York Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of James Gray's crime drama Paper Tiger. We might call the film an elevated genre picture, considering the filmmaker, the stars, and, of course, its...
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: 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: 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: PIN DE FARTIE, Choreographed Verbal Farewells
Laura Paredes, Marcos Ferrante and Santigo Gobernori star in Argentine director Alejo Moguillansky's film.
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 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...
New York 2024 Review: THE DAMNED (IL DANNATI), Neorealist Anti-Western About the Senselessness of War
Roberto Minervini’s new film, which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, is the second feature in this festival round to be titled The Damned. Another movie with the same English-language title, directed by Thordur Palsson and featured...
New York 2024 Review: PAVEMENTS Has Great Fun Selling Out
In the romanticizing of 90s indie music, it's oft said that no band better epitomized the rock & roll slacker ethos of rebelling against establishment/commercialism/‘whatever else ya got’/etc. than Pavement. If true enough, then how exactly do you make a...
