Is That Black Enough for You?!? | New York Film Festival 2022
Why did the surge of Black-centered films from the late 1960s through the 1970s fade away?
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The Inspection | NYFF 2022
Elegance Bratton’s semi-autobiographical feature debut was the festival's Closing Night selection.
Armageddon Time | NYFF 2022
Writer/director James Gray places a lot of responsibility on the slender shoulders of his young actors in this re-creation of his early 1980s upbringing.
Till | New York Film Festival 2022
This restrained biopic is one of the most thoughtful to come out of Hollywood in recent years.
Stars at Noon | NYFF 2022
Claire Denis's latest is wobbly, sometimes mesmerizing, but meandering, though it features one of the year’s best musical scores.
Triangle of Sadness | NYFF 2022
Five years after writer/director Ruben Östlund won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, he triumphed again with his latest darkly satiric romp.
Charcoal | TIFF 2022
This well-calibrated droll and dark satire has a life force that courses in serpentine ways that recall Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite.
The Wonder | TIFF 2022
The team behind this book adaptation spins a sinuous narrative of many colors. It’s easily one of the classiest films that Netflix has produced.
The Banshees of Inisherin | TIFF 2022
A return to form for Martin McDonagh, with this dark, macabre comedy. Though the story is gritty, grim, and grotesque, the location lends it an almost epic-like grandeur.