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...
ReviewNEW YORK: It’s not hard to draw a straight line from Charles Dickens to Armando Iannucci. In each there’s a passion for human frailty and absurdity and,...
ReviewNEW YORK: For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” has endured. First published in 1911, it remains one of the great...
NEW YORK: The Toronto International film Festival on Thursday unveiled a lineup bearing little in common with its standard barrage of awards contenders and...
NEW YORK: Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, will premiere across the major fall film festivals in an alliance forged by the Venice,...
NEW YORK: A long time ago in a pre-COVID universe far, far away, blockbusters opened around the globe simultaneously or nearly so. In 1975, "Jaws" set the...
ReviewNEW YORK: It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie’s discovery of radium and polonium. To investigate uranium at their Paris laboratory, Marie acquired...
ReviewNEW YORK: Vaclav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” begins with utter bleakness. Over the course of its 169-minute running time, however, it keeps finding...
NEW YORK: The Telluride Film Festival, the annual film retreat held in the Colorado mountains and one of the fall movie season’s top launching pads, has been...