Report From the New York Film Festival
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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
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‘The Lost City of Z’ Review: Charlie Hunnam Explores the Amazon in Stirring Saga
James Gray taps into deeper levels of artistry with this stirring look at the travels of early-20th-century explorer Percival Fawcett
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’20th Century Women’ Review: Annette Bening Anchors Strong Ensemble Piece
Mike Mills (“Beginners”) makes another film about one of his parents, and this one goes even deeper
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‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Review: Ang Lee Stumbles at 50-Yard Line
Bad writing is further undone by 120 frames-per-second cinematography that turns everything into glossy magazine photos
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’13th’ NYFF Review: Ava DuVernay Connects the Dots From Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
This harrowing Netflix documentary examines how treating black American males as criminals has perpetuated systematic oppression
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New York Film Festival Adds Movies by Almodovar, Jarmusch, Paul Verhoeven
The 54th annual festival runs from September 30 through October 16
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‘Bridge of Spies’ NYFF Review: Tom Hanks Is Steven Spielberg’s All-American Cold Warrior
This true-life tale of espionage and international intrigue plays intelligently and suspensefully until Spielberg gives in to mawkishness
