If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
By Su Silver October 24, 2025
Director Mary Bronstein bravely and imaginatively confronts head-on issues that many films would shy away from.
Director Mary Bronstein bravely and imaginatively confronts head-on issues that many films would shy away from.
Hollywood finds a way to turn a star into a martyr of the arts, even if he’s one of the most well-behaved guys in the music industry.
Instead of seeking counseling to repair a marriage, an aggrieved wife seeks out the help of a “mistress dispeller,” a cross between a detective and a psychiatrist.
Jafar Panahi takes a revenge tale rooted in Iranian political repression and layers on a shaggy dog story, satire, and notes of dark comedy.
The Revivals section included the blueprint of the genre-blending masala movie presented in the original director’s cut, once censored and unseen for decades.
Three hidden gems and undistributed films that deserve attention.
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.
A bold and remarkably assured feature directorial debut plays out mostly like a fizzy—albeit sexually explicit—romantic comedy, with deep dramatic undertones.