The Whale
Darren Aronofsky’s workmanlike approach to an Off-Broadway play recalls many 1950s film adaptations of Broadway hits.
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1946, Queen of the Deuce, Casa Susanna | DOC NYC 2022
Three films offer fascinating looks at recent times or, in the case of one documentary, the ancient past, with two of three winning top festival prizes.
The Fabelmans | TIFF 2022
You don’t have to be an ardent fan of Steven Spielberg to enter his semiautobiographical bildungsroman, set in 1950s/’60s suburbia, though it wouldn’t hurt.
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?
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.