N Categories Festivals Movies NYFF 59 Reviews October 10, 2021 NYFF: Ahed’s Knee has style and righteous anger to spare Ahed's Knee, director Nadav Lapid's latest film, cannot match his best work, but it's far from a failure. It has style and anger to spare.
N Categories Festivals Movies NYFF 59 Reviews October 1, 2021 NYFF 2021: The Tragedy of Macbeth is a sparse, elegant take on the Bard Joel Coen steps out on his own & directs a powerhouse cast in an extra-dark version of Shakespeare's tale of ambition & absolute power.
N Categories Movies NYFF 59 September 24, 2021 NYFF 2021: Straight-faced or racy farce? Benedetta will never tell Paul Verhoeven returns with Benedetta, a film so open to interpretation, it risks losing meaning. We reviewed it at this year's NYFF.
N Categories Movies NYFF 58 Reviews September 23, 2021 NYFF 2021: The First 54 Years offers an incomplete account of Israeli occupation Avi Mograbi's documentary is a long, strident presentation on the military occupation of Gaza that does a disservice to the oppression he's highlighting.
P Categories Features P.S.H. I Love You September 13, 2021 PSH I Love You: Punch-Drunk Love Punch-Drunk Love, PTA's Adam Sandler romance , sees the great Philip Seymour Hoffman play a louth, loathsome sleazebag.
P Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You August 16, 2021 P.S.H. I Love You: repairing the world in Magnolia One of Philip Seymour Hoffman's finest moments has him playing a beacon of comfort and compassion.
S Categories Movies Reviews August 2, 2021 Stillwater is an empty shell disguised as insightful commentary Tom McCarthy directs a stoic Matt Damon in a film about America's role on the world stage, which ultimately says very little.
J Categories Movies Reviews July 28, 2021 James Gunn rescues The Suicide Squad with a raunchy, silly sequel DC finally recovers from its worst movie with a followup that leans into the irreverent comic-book mayhem of its source material (and its director).
& Categories Movies Reviews July 21, 2021 “Mandibles” is silly but doesn’t have much to say Quentin Dupieux's farce about a pair of slackers stuck taking care of a giant fly has some inspired moments, and not much else.
P Categories Columns Features P.S.H. I Love You July 16, 2021 P.S.H. I Love You: On Hoffman’s first great turn in PTA’s Boogie Nights PSH makes the most out of sparse screentime in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 classic.
