Film Reviews

‘No Bears’ review: Jafar Panahi turns the camera on himself in powerful, subtly playful examination of limits personal, political and artistic | LFF

The remarkable prolificacy of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, and the even-more-remarkable spirit of subversiveness that has only burgeoned in his… Read More

October 16, 2022

‘Personality Crisis: One Night Only’ review: Martin Scorsese music doc looks at the absurd and the sublime of elusive, forever cool New York Dolls frontman David Johansen | NYFF

Martin Scorsese has a knack for documenting New York institutions and illustrating the inner lives of the city's singular characters.… Read More

October 16, 2022

‘Return to Seoul’ review: Park Ji-Min’s astonishing turn as a magnetic adoptee anchors Davy Chou’s compelling search for meaning | NYFF

Adoption, as a process, has many intricacies, and one of them is the loopholes it leaves open for someone who… Read More

October 14, 2022

‘She Said’ review: Maria Schrader goes on the record with an empathetic story of womens’ courage | NYFF

Picture it: it's 1992 in Ireland, and a young woman in her early twenties walks along the beach only to… Read More

October 13, 2022

‘Halloween Ends’ review: David Gordon Green kills, and takes risks in this soon-to-be-divisive Laurie Strode send-off

Jamie Lee Curtis has been speaking a lot about what this new Halloween trilogy has meant to her, in the… Read More

October 13, 2022

‘Eternal Spring’ review: Daxiong’s stirring visual exploration of religious suppression and memory through comic book imagery

Animation can be a powerful tool for examining difficult topics. That’s especially true for an artist whose life has been… Read More

October 13, 2022

‘Nanny’ review: Predictability hobbles what could have been a fascinating take on the horror of trauma | LFF

It is both the blessing and the burden of just about every modern horror movie that it must be about… Read More

October 13, 2022

‘The Stranger’ review: Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris face off in this taut, unnerving Australian detective drama [B+] | LFF

Thomas Wright’s Australian detective drama stars Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, and it’s a gripping film that is unconventionally delicate.… Read More

October 12, 2022

‘Rosaline’ review: Kaitlyn Dever is delightful in this cheeky take on a Shakespeare classic [B-]

Rosaline is a mysterious character in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. She’s never seen, but is mentioned often by Romeo and… Read More

October 11, 2022

‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton sees double in Joanna Hogg’s mother-daughter gothic ghost story [A-] | NYFF

Late in Joanna Hogg's exquisite autobiographical b-side, The Souvenir Part II, our protagonist finds herself wandering through a hall of… Read More

October 11, 2022

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