Festivals NYFF 57: “Varda by Agnes” Takes You to Film School The late filmmaker’s final project was hosting a warm & fascinating look at her extraordinary seven decade career.
Festivals NYFF 57: “Vitalina Varela” Offers No Comfort in Sorrow Pedro Costa's minimalist, based on real events drama is short on plot and long on the relentless weight of living.
Festivals NYFF: “The Whistlers” Never Rises Above a Whisper Romania's Corneliu Pourumbiou bogs down excellent production design in droopy, exposition-heavy noir trappings.
Festivals NYFF 57: It Takes a Village to Raise Hell in “Bacurau” Brazil’s bloody modern Western is occasionally baffling, but never boring.
Festivals NYFF 57: “Synonyms” Is an Israeli Drama Packed With Meaning Nadav Lapid's latest film loads its narrative with impactful stories about masculinity, language, and nationality.
Festivals NYFF 57: “Pain & Glory” Is Sumptuous, Autobiographic Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar graces us with a shaggy but rewarding portrait of a middle-aged director wrestling with his demons, with an arresting turn by Banderas.
Festivals NYFF 57: “The Irishman” Is Scorsese’s Most Ambitious, Indulgent Film Yet Martin Scorsese returns with another long, sumptuous opus, whose crackling performances and scintillating script are held up by some wonky de-aging tech and a leaden runtime.
Festivals NYFF 57: “Zombi Child” Conjures Up a Confounding, Eerie Tale Bertrand Bonello writes & directs a genre defying story about teenage passion & the thin veil between life & death.