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...
ReviewNEW YORK: In Remi Weekes’ “His House,” Bol (Sopé D?r?sù) and Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) have fled war in South Sudan only to find new horrors lurking in...
ReviewNEW YORK: Since Sacha Baron Cohen first appeared as his Kazakh journalist on “Da Ali G Show,” Borat Sagdiyev has been remarkably consistent. The accent...
ReviewNEW YORK: The distance for Adam Sandler from last year’s frantic, high-wire act “Uncut Gems” to his new Netflix comedy, “Hubie Halloween,” is great, but...
NEW YORK: The Pixar film “Soul” will skip theaters and instead premiere on Disney+ at Christmas, the Walt Disney Co. announced this week, sending one of the...
NEW YORK: In a movie year mostly lacking big, ambitious releases, Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology is an unqualified main event. While many other...
ReviewNEW YORK: Kirsten Johnson’s last film, the autobiographical collage “Cameraperson,” was an astonishing compendium of what she, as a cinematographer, had...
ReviewNEW YORK: We’ve been blessed, of late, with excellent movies about families of grifters. There was Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gloriously heartfelt...
NEW YORK: What’s it like to be an international film festival sensation without hardly leaving your home? Like most things during the pandemic, it’s...
ReviewNEW YORK: The 25-year-old Australian actress Geraldine Viswanathan, having already stolen movies left and right, more straightforwardly owns “Broken...
ReviewNEW YORK: “I try to imbue my work with a sort of interiority,” says Lucy (Jessie Buckley), the artist-physics student-girlfriend of Charlie Kaufman’s...
Review NEW YORK: I went in fresh to “Tenet.” I didn’t have any real sense of the plot, yes, but it’s more that it had been some five months since I was last...