Barrio Triste, Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes, Pin de Fartie | NYFF 2025
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 17, 2025
Three hidden gems and undistributed films that deserve attention.
Festivals
Is This Thing On? | NYFF 2025
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 16, 2025
There could possibly be no more fitting option to end the 63rd New York Film Festival than with the selection of a New York–set romantic comedy with gravitas.
Pillion | NYFF 2025
By Jeffery Berg
A bold and remarkably assured feature directorial debut plays out mostly like a fizzy—albeit sexually explicit—romantic comedy, with deep dramatic undertones.
The Mastermind | NYFF 2025
By Jeffery Berg
Another in Kelly Reichardt’s canon of deceptively modest stories of ordinary people set within a specific place and time.
No Other Choice | NYFF 2025
By Kent Turner October 10, 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.
Jay Kelly | NYFF 2025
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 4, 2025
With a sly undercurrent of darkness, Jay Kelly is more bitter than sweet. It’s far richer and more complex than you might expect.
Blue Moon | NYFF 2025
By Jeffery Berg
An exception to the rule that films limited mainly to one location can feel stagey and stifling.
Sirât | NYFF 2025
By Guillermo Lopez Meza
One of the year’s most intense and unclassifiable thrillers.
After the Hunt | NYFF 2025
By Jeffery Berg September 29, 2025
It’s exciting to see Julia Roberts tackle a complicated, prickly character after being pigeonholed with the trivial moniker “America’s Sweetheart” in the past.