REVIEWNEW YORK: You’ve got to love a movie that credits its dogs before it does its executive producers. “The Truffle Hunters,” Michael Dweck and Gregory...
NEW YORK: In a year in which the pandemic shuttered movie theaters for months, Academy Awards nominations went to two female filmmakers for the first time and...
NEW YORK: With homebound nominees appearing by remote video and hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on different sides of the country, a very socially distanced...
ReviewNEW YORK: In Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” Anthony, 80, is in the grip of dementia, a captain ready to go down with the ship. Overhearing his daughter...
ReviewNEW YORK: An air of mystery surrounded Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl” but there’s no mistaking her in “I Care a Lot.” Sporting designer suits and a bob...
NEW YORK: After a year where the pandemic nearly emptied movie theaters, Netflix dominated nominations to the 78ths Golden Globe Awards Wednesday, with David...
NEW YORK: Questlove responded with incredulous disbelief when he was first told about the footage. A landmark 1969 Harlem concert series that he hadn’t heard...
NEW YORK: Peter Nicks had for months been documenting the students of Oakland High School, in California, when the pandemic hit. “It’s in the Bay,” says one...
NEW YORK: The teen abortion drama “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” landed a leading seven nominations, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated and women...
REVIEWNEW YORK: Ramin Bahrani, the Iranian-American filmmaker, started out small. 2005’s “Man Push Cart” tells the simple story of a pushcart vendor, a...
ReviewNEW YORK: Doug Liman’s “Locked Down,” one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is, like our own...
NEW YORK: Streaming from an empty banquet hall and with acceptance speeches made from living rooms, the 30th Gotham Awards gave a very strange Oscar season a...
ReviewNEW YORK: Phyllida Lloyd’s “Herself,” an Irish drama of spousal abuse set against Dublin’s housing crisis, has some narrative weak spots but its...
NEW YORK: Even before “The Dissident” made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, director Bryan Fogel had a sense that his explosive Jamal Khashoggi...
NEW YORK: The Walt Disney Co.’s streaming plans shifted into hyper speed Thursday, as the studio unveiled a galaxy’s worth of new streaming offerings...
NEW YORK: Steven Soderbergh calls it “the boat movie,” though he’s not supposed to call it “the boat movie.”The Queen Mary 2, on which Soderbergh filmed most...
Good movies kept coming in 2020, even when everything else stopped. In a year that often felt like its own kind of cataclysmic Hollywood production, the...
Review NEW YORK: When it’s at its best, “I’m Your Woman” feels like you’ve slipped through a trap door, revealing a hidden pathway in an old genre apparatus....
NEW YORK: “Papa!” screams a hospital worker, covered from head to toe in a Hazmat suit and PPE, in the opening moments of the documentary “76 Days.”This is in...
ReviewNEW YORK: It’s a demonstrably difficult task to find a comic screen partner worthy of standing opposite Melissa McCarthy, so you have to appreciate...
NEW YORK: “No New ‘Movies’ Till Influenza Ends” blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was...
NEW YORK: For Steve McQueen, bringing back the London of his childhood began with remembering the scents of his youth.In “Small Axe,” McQueen’s ambitious...
Review NEW YORK: A politicized healthcare crisis, horrifyingly unnecessary death, a crucial election.“Collective,” a piercing documentary about corruption in...
NEW YORK: In the first days of Greta Thunberg’s solitary sidewalk protest outside Swedish Parliament in August 2018, most walk right past her. Some pause and...
NEW YORK: The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. Dozens of films, exploring issues from gerrymandering to white...