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‘She Said’ Review: Weinstein Scandal Makes for Stirring, Sometimes Hokey, Journalism Drama
By Fran Hoepfner | November 17, 2022 @ 9:55 AMScreen adaptation of the best-selling book mostly succeeds at recreating the investigation that helped kickstart #MeToo
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‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’ Review: Deeply Felt Documentary Celebrates ’70s Black Cinema
By Dan Callahan | October 9, 2022 @ 5:00 PMDirector Elvis Mitchell and a bevy of high-profile names go deep on a decade’s worth of extraordinary movies
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‘A Cooler Climate’ Review: James Ivory Leaves a Great Deal Unsaid in Docu-Memoir
By Dan Callahan | October 7, 2022 @ 9:59 PMNew York Film Festival 2022: Ivory’s 1960 footage of Afghanistan captivates while the director’s old-school reticence keeps his more intimate memories locked away
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‘Till’ Review: Danielle Deadwyler Delivers a Riveting Performance as Mourning Mother Turned Civil-Rights Legend
By Ronda Racha Penrice | October 1, 2022 @ 6:00 PM”Clemency“ director Chinonye Chukwu examines a national tragedy on an achingly human level
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Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ Set as New York Film Festival Opener
By Brian Welk | August 2, 2022 @ 8:00 AMThe movie starring Adam Driver will make its North American premiere at the 60th annual edition of the festival beginning Sept. 30
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‘French Exit’ Film Review: Michelle Pfeiffer Brings Life to Eccentric Black Comedy
By Steve Pond | April 2, 2021 @ 2:00 PMPfeiffer 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
By Alonso Duralde | March 11, 2021 @ 4:25 AMThis 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
By Alonso Duralde | December 3, 2020 @ 10:40 AMPart 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
By Alonso Duralde | November 27, 2020 @ 8:00 AMThe 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
By Alonso Duralde | November 20, 2020 @ 2:00 PMA 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
By Alonso Duralde | October 28, 2020 @ 12:00 PMBoston 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
By Alonso Duralde | October 23, 2020 @ 10:00 AMNYFF 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
By Dan Callahan | June 19, 2020 @ 7:00 AMDirector 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
By Dan Callahan | October 9, 2019 @ 2:00 PMNew 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
By Steve Pond | August 6, 2019 @ 9:00 AMThe 29 films in the NYFF’S main slate include lots of movies from Cannes, but only six from female directors