The Beast | NYFF 2023
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 26, 2023
Léa Seydoux completely immerses herself in this demented and sprawling epic romance about missed opportunities.
Léa Seydoux completely immerses herself in this demented and sprawling epic romance about missed opportunities.
At a fleet 81 minutes, Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film exemplifies a slim version of the director’s perfected brand of tragicomedy.
A tribute to horror director Stuart Gordon and a dead-on spoof of the straight-to-video erotic thrillers of the 1990s.
An absorbing documentary about an Indian family’s revolutionary fight for justice.
Alexander Payne immediately creates a cocoon of detailed, vintage atmosphere in his latest 1970 end-of-year holidays-set movie.
Harmony Korine’s new work (don’t call it a “movie”) suggests an episode of Miami Vice filtered through a psychedelic, acid-soaked consciousness.
In one of the most unusual approaches to the heist film genre, this absorbing piece of Argentinian cinema replaces the sense of danger with sophisticated humor.
Although David Grann’s nonfiction page-turner offers more than enough material for a 206-minute film, the result here is lopsided.
Cage brings his trademark intensity to the role, albeit quiet and grizzled, to this effortlessly intense and beautiful looking western.