BFI London Review: Blitz Is an Unabashedly Hopeful, Mainstream Work from Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen has long been upfront about his desire to make a musical; before Widows underwhelmed at the box office, it appeared likely th...
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NYFF Review: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire is a Bold Rethinking of Black Surrealism
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, the feature debut from artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, aims to foreground its primary literary ...
NYFF Review: Việt and Nam is a Swooning, Stirring Slow Cinema Romance
“Leave the light on. It’s easier for me to dream.”
The opening shot of Việt and Nam, writer-director Trương Minh Quý’s sophomore film, i...
NYFF Review: Nickel Boys Finds Miraculous Beauty in the Horrors of the World
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross' narrative feature debut, is the story of a stubborn world, resisting change. Adapted from Colson Whitehead's The ...
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Jia Zhang-ke Reveals He’s Working on an AI Short Film
After screening his latest film Caught by the Tides at the Busan International Film Festival, director Jia Zhang-ke met with the press, accompanied by his wife...
NYFF Review: Nickel Boys Finds Miraculous Beauty in the Horrors of the World
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross' narrative feature debut, is the story of a stubborn world, resisting change. Adapted from Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, it's an...
NYC Weekend Watch: Samuel L. Jackson, Akerman-Duras, Compensation & More
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Museum of Modern ArtAs the career-spanning Johnnie To retrospective continues, a Samuel L. ...
NYFF Review: The Friend Amply Portrays Grief with an Admirable Naomi Watts Performance
Independent filmmaking duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel's The Friend, their newest in a 30-year collaboration, is a dog movie. Or, more aptly, it’s a film ab...
Posterized October 2024: Rumours, Woman of the Hour, La Cocina & More
Beyond Joker: Folie à Deux (October 4) and Smile 2 (October 18), this month is light on studio power. The indies are surely champing at the bit to fill...
New to Streaming: Evil Does Not Exist, Powell and Pressburger, Red Rooms, It’s What’s Inside & More
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 r...
It’s What’s Inside Director Greg Jardin on Manifesting Anxiety, Giallo Lighting, and the Road to Success
Premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, It’s What’s Inside seemed to come a bit out of nowhere. Despite its prime positioning in the Midnight s...
NYFF Review: Afternoons of Solitude is a Hypnotic Take on Bullfighting from Albert Serra
When J. Hoberman placed game 6 of the 1986 World Series on his Village Voice year-end list, we had one of the first, most convincing attempts to enshrine live ...
Daniel Day-Lewis Ends Retirement for Anemone Co-Written with and Directed By Son Ronan Day-Lewis
In what is almost surely the year's biggest casting news, Daniel Day-Lewis has ended retirement for his own progeny. Focus Features have announced Anemone, whi...
Nicholas Hoult Faces Justice In Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2
Since last year it's been known Clint Eastwood was at work on Juror #2, which initially came to light as a swan song––"one last project in order to be able to ...