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.
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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.
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,