‘Small Axe: Mangrove’ Film Review: Steve McQueen Exposes the Police Brutality of the Past, and the Present
NYFF 2020: 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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‘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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‘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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‘City Hall’ Film Review: Frederick Wiseman Celebrates the Power of Civic Engagement
Toronto/NYFF 2020: 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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‘Small Axe: Lovers Rock’ Review: Steve McQueen Would Like to Dance With You, in 1979
NYFF 2020: 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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‘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
