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.
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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.
After the Hunt | NYFF 2025
It’s exciting to see Julia Roberts tackle a complicated, prickly character after being pigeonholed with the trivial moniker “America’s Sweetheart” in the past.
Plainclothes
Though set in the pre-app, agonizing phone-waiting days of the past, the movie’s themes and struggles remain impactful and relevant.
Griffin in Summer
The film is at its best when everything hums along in its mostly low-key, natural fashion.