Lovers Rock | New York Film Festival 2020
Steve McQueen's quasi-musical more than made up for the subdued feeling that many might have felt this year.
Film-Forward
Nomadland | New York Film Festival 2020
For an off-kilter year in which moviegoing has been curtailed and new films have debuted online and not in theaters, it’s fitting that this low-key and muted film has recently been celebrated.
The Human Voice | New York Film Festival 2020
In only 30 minutes, Pedro Almodóvar’s elegant take on Jean Cocteau’s 1930 one-act/one-woman meltdown packs more drama than many movies four times its length.
MLK/FBI | New York Film Festival 2020
A sharply detailed account of how the Federal Bureau of Investigation used its resources to target civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
The clip and talking-head-fest is a compilation of R-rated reveals, and note the subtitle. It really is a history lesson as well as a catalog of the nude and famous.
The Truth, Who You Think I Am, An Easy Girl, Proxima | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2020
Year in and year out, the festival showcases recent star vehicles for France’s leading actresses. During its first week, Juliette Binoche was the series' secret sauce.
Little Women
The March sisters are back, and Greta Gerwig’s got ‘em, but do moviegoers need another movie of Louisa May Alcott’s family saga?
The Best of 2019
There is no escaping that the films favored this year (with the exception of two) are all somehow crime related, though they broadly range from the elegant to the earthy.