‘French Exit’ Film Review: Michelle Pfeiffer Brings Life to Eccentric Black Comedy
Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges star in Azazel Jacobs film that undercuts its polished stateliness with quiet dark humor
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‘The Human Voice’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton Speak Heartache Fluently
This adaptation of Cocteau’s play is a pandemic production, and Almodóvar’s English-language debut, but it’s pure Pedro
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‘Small Axe: Red, White and Blue’ Review: John Boyega’s London Cop Tries to Change the System
Part of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” miniseries, this ’80s-set police drama takes a timely look at reform vs. abolition
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‘Small Axe: Lovers Rock’ Review: Steve McQueen Would Like to Dance With You, in 1979
The director’s talent for plunging you into specific places and feelings is used, for a change, to go somewhere sexy and exhilarating
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‘Small Axe: Mangrove’ Film Review: Steve McQueen Exposes the Police Brutality of the Past, and the Present
A look at a landmark British trial from 50 years ago reminds us that the past is never dead, and it’s certainly not even past
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‘City Hall’ Film Review: Frederick Wiseman Celebrates the Power of Civic Engagement
Boston mayor Marty Walsh becomes a constant figure in this examination of the good that government can potentially do with community involvement
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‘On the Rocks’ Film Review: Bill Murray and Rashida Jones Make a Dynamic Comic Duo
NYFF 2020: Sofia Coppola may have crafted the quintessential Murray role in this father-daughter comedy, but Jones is nobody’s bystander
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‘Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn’ Film Review: 2019’s Second Cohn Documentary Flails in Too Many Directions
Director Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, tries to cram in an excess of information, allowing her subject to elude her
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‘The Cotton Club Encore’ Film Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Butchered Masterpiece Gets Its Redemption
New York Film Festival 2019: With the restoration of Gregory Hines’ complete performance, this legendary flop now stands among a master director’s greatest films
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New York Film Festival: Kelly Reichardt, Agnes Varda Lead Slate With 20% Female Directors
The 29 films in the NYFF’S main slate include lots of movies from Cannes, but only six from female directors
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‘Widows’ Film Review: Viola Davis, Steve McQueen Team Up for a Curious Heist Movie
Davis leads a gang forced to pull off a complex theft, but her director is more interested in obsessions than robberies
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Coen Brothers, Barry Jenkins’ New Films to Play at New York Film Festival
The 56th New York Film Festival will kick off on September 28 and run through October 14
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‘Wonder Wheel’ Film Review: Woody Allen Takes ‘Streetcar’ Again, to Diminished Effect
Kate Winslet gets to fill in for Blanche DuBois this time, but Allen’s 1950s drama is no “Blue Jasmine”
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‘Last Flag Flying’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Vet Drama Stuck at Half-Mast
New York Film Festival: Despite its sincerity, this message movie misses the mark
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‘Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold’ Review: Incisive Writer Gets Equally Perceptive Documentary
New York Film Festival: Didion’s nephew Griffin Dunne takes a lean and honest look at a legendary literary life
