Wildlife
Actor Paul Dano makes an impressively auspicious debut as a director.
Film-Forward
Win It All
A film which transforms extremely familiar genre elements into an infectiously comedic movie full of vividly detailed portraits.
Apprentice
Prison life from the perspective of corrections officers tasked with enforcing the rules and carrying out punishments.
Japan Cuts 2016
This essential festival celebrated the richness and diversity to be found in current Japanese filmmaking and offered an especially eclectic and challenging selection.
Highlights of the New York Asian Film Festival 2016
The city’s premier showcase of the latest and greatest from international film festivals celebrates its 15th anniversary by continuing what it does best: highlighting the richness to be found in Asian cinema.
Sweet Bean
In this intensely moving movie, long, lovingly shot sequences of the titular food fits perfectly in the genre of culinary-based films in which food has metaphorical, cultural, and even spiritual significance.
Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema 2015
The festival Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from December 2-8, is celebrating its 10th edition, and is using this milestone as an occasion to look back on the Romanian New Wave, which, of course by now, is not so new.
Besides its usual focus on recent films—which this […]
The Assassin
It’s been eight years since Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s last feature, the Paris-set Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), and the idea for his latest film, The Assassin, had been gestating in his mind for a quarter of a century. But now, Hou’s unique and idiosyncratic take on the wuxia (martial arts films) has finally […]