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.
Film-Forward
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.
Richard Jewell
Distrust of the federal government’s machinations and suspicion of journalists permeate Clint Eastwood’s account of the 1996 Summer Olympics bombing.
A Hidden Life
Not since The Sound of Music have the Austrian Alps been such scene stealers. The dramatic, mountain landscapes are the go-to visual motifs in Terrence Malick's new meandering movie.