Film-Forward

Todd Haynes’s subtle and delicate film kicked off this year’s festival. It stars Natalie Portman, in one of her most intricate performances.

It’s been an almost routine occurrence to see two of his films included in the New York Film Festival, and this year is no exception.

After three decades, Spanish director Víctor Erice returns with an elegy to cinema.

Jonathan Glazer’s new film is an essential addition to the representation of the Holocaust, and one of the best films of the year.

Raoul Peck peers into the predicament of a Black family who wants to reclaim their long-owned waterfront property in North Carolina, which is threatened by developers.

A dense and informative documentary about Christian missionary John Allen Chau’s doomed encounter on the isolated North Sentinel Island.

Ambiguity conspicuously reigns supreme in this enigma. Expect many post-screening conversations, and some frustration, to ensue.

If you are looking for gore and shocking images, you have come to the right place.

Vicky Krieps provides the emotional depth in an honestly realized drama that never sinks to unnecessary melodrama.