Report From the New York Film Festival
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New York Film Festival Adds New Films From Yorgos Lanthimos, Wim Wenders, Justine Triet
The festival’s Main Slate will include a dozen films from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, including several award winners
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‘She Said’ Review: Weinstein Scandal Makes for Stirring, Sometimes Hokey, Journalism Drama
Screen adaptation of the best-selling book mostly succeeds at recreating the investigation that helped kickstart #MeToo
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‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’ Review: Deeply Felt Documentary Celebrates ’70s Black Cinema
Director Elvis Mitchell and a bevy of high-profile names go deep on a decade’s worth of extraordinary movies
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‘A Cooler Climate’ Review: James Ivory Leaves a Great Deal Unsaid in Docu-Memoir
New York Film Festival 2022: Ivory’s 1960 footage of Afghanistan captivates while the director’s old-school reticence keeps his more intimate memories locked away
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‘Till’ Review: Danielle Deadwyler Delivers a Riveting Performance as Mourning Mother Turned Civil-Rights Legend
“Clemency” director Chinonye Chukwu examines a national tragedy on an achingly human level
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Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ Set as New York Film Festival Opener
The movie starring Adam Driver will make its North American premiere at the 60th annual edition of the festival beginning Sept. 30
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‘French Exit’ Film Review: Michelle Pfeiffer Brings Life to Eccentric Black Comedy
Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges star in Azazel Jacobs film that undercuts its polished stateliness with quiet dark humor
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‘The Human Voice’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton Speak Heartache Fluently
This adaptation of Cocteau’s play is a pandemic production, and Almodóvar’s English-language debut, but it’s pure Pedro
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‘Small Axe: Red, White and Blue’ Review: John Boyega’s London Cop Tries to Change the System
Part of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” miniseries, this ’80s-set police drama takes a timely look at reform vs. abolition
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‘Small Axe: Lovers Rock’ Review: Steve McQueen Would Like to Dance With You, in 1979
The director’s talent for plunging you into specific places and feelings is used, for a change, to go somewhere sexy and exhilarating
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‘Small Axe: Mangrove’ Film Review: Steve McQueen Exposes the Police Brutality of the Past, and the Present
A look at a landmark British trial from 50 years ago reminds us that the past is never dead, and it’s certainly not even past
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‘City Hall’ Film Review: Frederick Wiseman Celebrates the Power of Civic Engagement
Boston mayor Marty Walsh becomes a constant figure in this examination of the good that government can potentially do with community involvement
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‘On the Rocks’ Film Review: Bill Murray and Rashida Jones Make a Dynamic Comic Duo
NYFF 2020: Sofia Coppola may have crafted the quintessential Murray role in this father-daughter comedy, but Jones is nobody’s bystander
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‘Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn’ Film Review: 2019’s Second Cohn Documentary Flails in Too Many Directions
Director Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, tries to cram in an excess of information, allowing her subject to elude her
