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CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman 2020) The city is Boston, one of the country's biggest and oldest. "City Hall" includes all the city government's...

SAM POLLARD: MLK/FBI (2020) A review of a tumultuous five-year period in US history This is a good-looking film. As is often the case now...

The agent has informed me that it is definitely out today, September 25, 2020, online. But in only two brick and mortar theaters: Landmark ...

NIGHT OF THE KINGS/LA NUIT DES ROIS (Philippe Lacôte 2020) A Prophet meets Sheherezade by way of City of God. An exuberant French language...

NOTE: A current Vulture article updated today says, for The Artist's Wife, "Moved from April 3, 2020, to a TBD date," so this review may have to be...

Fauna (Nicolás Pereda 2020) From the Currents series (not Main Slate), an avant-garde Mexican filmmaker. This 70-minuter feature plays with...

NICOLÁS PEREDA: FAUNA (2020) LÁZARO GABINO RODRIGUEZ AND LUISA PARDO (WEARING WIGS) IN FAUNA Meeting up and making up The 38-year-old...

PHILIPE GARREL: THE SALT OF TEARS/LE SEL DES LARMES (2020) The Salt of Tears Philippe Garrel, 2020, France, 100m Veteran filmmaker Philippe...

CHAITANYA TAMHANE: THE DISCIIPLE (2020) The Disciple Chaitanya Tamhane, 2020, India, 128m Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane became a...

CHLOE ZHAO: NOMADLAND (2020) Centerpiece FRANCES MCDORMAND IN NOMADLAND Premiered September 11, 2020 at the Venice Film Festival, where it...

TSAI MING-LIANG: DAYS (2020) Days Tsai Ming-liang, 2020, Taiwan/France, 127m The great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang has been...

FREDERICK WISEMAN: CITY HALL (2020) MAYOR OF BOSTON MARTY WALSH IN CITY HALL Guy Lodge's Variety review lead off, "Frederick Wiseman’s...

TIME (Garrett Bradley 2020) A woman waits eighteen years for her husband to get out of prison. Striking amalgam of home footage and doc. This...

THE CALMING 平静 (Song Fang 2020) A Chinese woman documentary filmmaker (Qi Xi) has broken up with her boyfriend. This film follows her as she...

GUNDA (Victor Kossakovsky (2020) From Norway, with additional footage from Spain and Britain. this is a wordless portrait in gorgeous black and...

Highlights of the 2020 New York Asian Film Festival NIKKI HSIEH AND AUSTIN LIN IN IWEIRDO The last film I saw was the greatest delight: Liao...

MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu 2020) Five Russian aristocrats in a splendid mansion in Transylvania in 1900 discuss philosophy and religion in stilted...

PHILIPPE LACOTE: NIGHT OF THE KINGS/LA NUIT DES ROIS (2020) KONÉ BAKARY IN NIGHT OF THE KINGS Night of the red moon Night of the...

GARRETT BRADLEY: TIME (2020) A woman waits eighteen years for her husband to get out of prison Time by documentarian Garrett Bradley is...

SONG FANG: THE CALMING 平静 (2020) QI XI IN THE CALMING Where life, though joyless, still is calm I reviewed Son Fang's first film,...

VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY: GUNDA (2020 GUNDA WITH PIGLET IN GUNDA In a pig's eye What is the average life span of a pig? Well, that's just one...

CRISTI PUIU: MALMKROG (2020) MARINA PALLI AND DIANA SAKALAUSKAITÉ in MALMKROG Idle rich with a lot to talk about, c. 1900 I reviewed...