AwardsWatch - nyff review

NYFF Review: In ‘French Exit,’ Michelle Pfeiffer gives a performance for the ages

Jason Adams October 10, 2020

I don’t know about you but not being able to see my mother in person in over a year thanks to the pandemic has made... Read More

NYFF Review: Middling modernist myth-making in ‘Atarrabi and Mikelats’

Michael Frank October 7, 2020

French filmmaker Eugène Green, like many directors, has a distinct style. His characters speak directly to the camera. They stand in the center of the... Read More

NYFF Review: Steve McQueen’s meditative ‘Red, White and Blue’ features a career-defining performance from John Boyega

Diego Andaluz October 3, 2020

Over the past few weeks, Steve McQueen has once again taken the world of filmmaking by storm. Coming into the festival season with an impressive... Read More

NYFF Review: ‘The Woman Who Ran’ cannot escape being defined by men

Amelia Merrill October 1, 2020

“Seeing cows makes me so sad,” Gam-hee declares as she pokes at a plate of beef in her friend Young-soon’s apartment. She can handle the... Read More

NYFF Review: Passion and performance shine in Chaitanya Tamhane’s ‘The Disciple’

Michael Frank September 30, 2020

Children think anything and everything is possible. Kids possess the ability to picture a future in which they are astronauts, professional athletes, presidents, rockstars, and... Read More

NYFF Review: Jia Zhangke takes an unfocused look at Chinese history and literature with ‘Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue’

Clint Worthington September 30, 2020

Jia Zhangke’s firmly established himself as one of China’s most exciting, innovative filmmakers, whether it’s in fiction (as 2018’s meditative Ash is Purest White can... Read More

NYFF Review: A humble pig gets her time in the spotlight in gripping nature doc ‘Gunda’

Clint Worthington September 21, 2020

Victor Kossokofsky loves to prod at the boundaries of what he can do with documentary cinema — 2018’s Aquarela, for instance, asked its audience to... Read More

NYFF Review: ‘MLK/FBI’ charts the complexities of a great man and the government agency that worked tirelessly to take him down

Clint Worthington September 18, 2020

“When you construct someone as a great man, there’s almost nothing more satisfying than revealing the opposite.” This sentence, uttered early by historian Beverly Gage... Read More

NYFF Review: ‘Malmkrog’ is a gorgeous, stately slog through frippery and philosophy

Clint Worthington September 17, 2020

It’s Christmas Eve in the late nineteenth century, and snow coats the grounds of the eponymous Transylvanian manor at the center of Christi Puiu’s three-and-a-half-hour... Read More

Review: In ‘The Irishman,’ Scorsese’s mobsters age, facing their own mortality

Tomris Laffly September 28, 2019

Legends reunite in Martin Scorsese’s sprawling gangster epic featuring a rousing performance by Al Pacino and a scene-stealing Joe Pesci playing against type An epic... Read More