Film-Forward

Costume Drama

Firebrand

An uneven period drama about the Tudor monarch’s final spouse that plays fast and loose with the historical record.

The Promised Land

A cinematic soap opera of the highest order.

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Chen Kaige’s epic has returned in all its visual splendor and with 14 minutes restored.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire | NYFF 2019

Céline Sciamma turns to period drama with this elegant meditation on female desire that flips the script on the male gaze.

The Favourite | NYFF 2018

Director Yorgos Lanthimos turns Queen Anne’s court into a bawdy and baroque hothouse.

Victoria & Abdul

An entertaining and frustrating unofficial sequel to John Madden’s Mrs. Brown

Phantom Thread

You will see it for Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis but stay for Lesley Manville.

The Childhood of a Leader

The story of a sociopath learning his trade, beautifully crafted in old-school filmmaking.

The Assassin

It’s been eight years since Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s last feature, the Paris-set Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), and the idea for his latest film, The Assassin, had been gestating in his mind for a quarter of a century. But now, Hou’s unique and idiosyncratic take on the wuxia (martial arts films) has finally […]