No Other Choice | TIFF 2025
By Kent Turner September 9, 2025
Director Park Chan-wook takes as his blueprint Donald E Westlake’s lean and mean bloodbath The Ax (1997) and makes the macabre and cynical tale his own.
Festivals
Messy, Queens of the Dead, Jimpa | Provincetown International Film Festival 2025
By Jeffery Berg July 8, 2025
A blunt, deliriously funny comedy emerged as the festival’s standout, while a drama with big-name actors proved dramatically inert.
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror; Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore; Everything Moves | Provincetown International Film Festival 2025
By Jeffery Berg
These documentaries stood out: one on a cult classic, another on a pioneering Oscar winner, and a third on an acclaimed local artist.
Happy Birthday | Tribeca Festival 2025
By Su Silver July 2, 2025
The film succeeds both as a sharp social critique and as a traditional Middle Eastern drama.
Horsegirls, Tow, Birthright | Tribeca Festival 2025
By Kristin Ciliberto
Each of these films thrives on compelling performances, including by Gretchen Mol and Rose Byrne.
Natchez, An Eye for an Eye | Tribeca Festival 2025
By Kent Turner June 26, 2025
Year after year, documentaries have tended to showcase the strongest works at Tribeca. Once again, this was true.
Lemonade Blessing | Tribeca Festival 2025
By Andrew Plimpton
Much of this coming-of-ager is so convincingly awkward that I kept needing to hide my face in embarrassment.
Boy George & Culture Club; Billy Idol Should Be Dead; Depeche Mode: M | Tribeca Festival 2025
By Kent Turner
Three films brought the British Invasion of the 1980s roaring back to life.
On a String, The Travel Companion, A Tree Fell in the Woods | Tribeca 2025
By Kristin Ciliberto June 19, 2025
Among this year’s narrative selections were three New York City–centered films making their world premieres—two of which audiences should definitely keep an eye on.