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.
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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.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | TIFF 2022
Laura Poitras’s documentary biography of photographer and activist Nan Goldin fluidly connects the past with the present, and is among the strongest films about the 1980s New York art scene.
The Origin of Evil | TIFF 2022
The title of French director Sébastien Marnier’s thriller may sound more appropriate for the title of a sermon, but be not afraid. His film is instantly engaging, freewheeling, and playful,
My Policeman | TIFF 2022
Based on the 2012 novel by Bethan Roberts, the plot centers on an entangled trio: a young primary school teacher; her boyfriend, a young cop; and an erudite museum curator.
Causeway | TIFF 2022
As the sole lead, Jennifer Lawrence returns in her best film in years.