New York Film Festival

‘Priscilla’ Review: Cailee Spaeny is Magnificent in Sofia Coppola’s Intricate Diary of A Lonesome Teenage Girl | NYFF

Tiny toes sporting a fresh pedicure step daintily across a carpet as a harp plays. Garish decor, swans, tchotchkes, and… Read More

October 11, 2023

‘Maestro’ Review: Bradley Cooper’s Upper West Side Story is a Stylish, Marital Melodrama | NYFF

In last year's conductor-focused, brilliantly layered New York Film Festival selection, TÁR, Todd Field depicts an interaction between maestro Lydia… Read More

October 9, 2023

‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ Review: Joanna Arnow’s Eye-Opening Look at Power, Control and Malaise | NYFF

Not every romantic relationship has to be equitable, and there’s no shame in that - unless you’re into that. Joanna… Read More

October 5, 2023

‘The Settlers’ Review: A Searing Examination of Power Dynamics and Land Appropriation in Early 20th Century Chile | NYFF

Tales of expeditions to explore previously unincorporated lands are all too often whitewashed in history as positive roots of a… Read More

October 2, 2023

‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Fail to Launch Garth Davis’ Scenes from a Futuristic Marriage | NYFF

It’s 2065 in The Midwest. The climate crisis has ravaged the planet with floods, fires, and a slew of natural… Read More

September 30, 2023

‘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

‘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

‘R.M.N.’ review: Cristian Mungiu’s Transylvanian drama reminds us who the real monsters are [B+] | NYFF

In Cristian Mungiu’s drama R.M.N., there is something scary in the woods. Perhaps it is a bear, hungry in midwinter,… Read More

October 10, 2022

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