Rebuilding
People behaving nice and helpful to one another, despite chaos, seems novel these days, perhaps even groundbreaking.
Film-Forward
Nuremberg
A throwback to mid-budget Hollywood historical dramas of the 1990s and early 2000s, with a starry cast and handsome production values.
Die My Love
Sometimes, the raw, loose emotions and dark humor of John Cassavetes’s movies seem to be in conversation with this film.
Pillion | NYFF 2025
A bold and remarkably assured feature directorial debut plays out mostly like a fizzy—albeit sexually explicit—romantic comedy, with deep dramatic undertones.
The Mastermind | NYFF 2025
Another in Kelly Reichardt’s canon of deceptively modest stories of ordinary people set within a specific place and time.
Blue Moon | NYFF 2025
An exception to the rule that films limited mainly to one location can feel stagey and stifling.