‘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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‘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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‘The Human Voice’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton Speak Heartache Fluently
NYFF 2020: 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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‘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
