Armageddon Time | NYFF 2022
By Kent Turner October 13, 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.
Festivals
The Eternal Daughter | NYFF 2022
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 12, 2022
A film staged, shot, and scored as a ghost story infused by a gothic atmosphere. Joanna Hogg avoids obvious jump scares while sustaining an unsettling environment.
Till | New York Film Festival 2022
By Kent Turner
This restrained biopic is one of the most thoughtful to come out of Hollywood in recent years.
Bones and All | NYFF 2022
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 9, 2022
An elevated horror movie that’s also a burning romance, enhanced by the charisma and beauty of its stars.
White Noise | NYFF 2022
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 8, 2022
A stimulating example of giving-it-all filmmaking for art’s sake that might not be perfect or cohesive, but it’s restless fun and uncompromising.
Stars at Noon | NYFF 2022
By Kent Turner October 2, 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
By Kent Turner October 1, 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
By Kent Turner September 23, 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
By Kent Turner September 22, 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.