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THE SHROUDS (David Cronenberg 2024) Respectfully received at Cannes. But excruciating, precise necrophilia may not be your thing; it's not mine,...

CAUGHT BY THE TIDES 风流一代 (Jia Zhang-ke 2024) Jia Zhang-ke's symphonic, career-summarizing new film reviews many themes while resuming a favorite...

QUEER (Luca Guadagnino 2024) Daniel Craig's casting wildly against type as William Lee, the autobiographical protagonist of William Burroughs'...

THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Pedro Almodóvar 2024) The Spanish director's first feature film in English is based on a novel by American writer Sigrid...

AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Albert Serra 2024) An extraordinarily vivid and pure documentary of bullfighting in Spain focused exclusively on the...

HARD TRUTHS (Mike Leigh 2024) This brilliant film by the great Mike Leigh about a women who verbally abuses everyone starts out hilarious and ends...

THE FRIEND (Scott McGehee, David Siegel 2024) Engaging adaptation of the Sigrid Nunez's National Book Award winner about a woman friend (Naomi...

OH, CANADA (Paul Schrader 2024) Based on the late Russell Banks' novel, this depicts a renowned documentarian in Canada who fled the US draft in...

ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL (Rungano Nyoni 2024) Surrealism and traditionalism blend in this funeral wake exposure of a dead uncle's sexual...

Andrés Roca Rey in Afternoons of Solitude ALBERT SERRA: AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (2024) Video of Roca Rey (not from the film) TV story says...

PEPE (Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias 2024) Writer/director/editor/composer Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias has many ideas flying around in...

VIET AND NAM (Trương Minh Quý 2024) A beautiful, sensuous, almost trance-like film about Vietnam's war legacy, its present stagnation, and two...

HAPPYEND (Neo Sora 2024) Dystopia with a light touch, this film depicts some near-future techno-loving Tokyo high school kids who get into a...

HARVEST (Athina Rachel Tsangari 2024). One tends to get lost in this well-meaning but meanderng adaptaton of an eponymous Jim Crace novel about...

CALEB LANDRY JONES IN HARVEST ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI: HARVEST (2024) Meandering portrait of last days of a medieval English village One...

SCENE FROM HAPPYEND NEO SORA: HAPPYEND (2024) TRAILER Dystopia with a light touch The grim prospect of increasing repression and...

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia 2024) This quietly luminous film from India by a woman director whois only 38 won the Grand Prix at Cannes....

NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor 2024) The protracted Israeli assult on a group of Palestinian villages in the West Bank...

A REAL PAIN (Jesse Eisenberg 2024) As they play two cousins on a Polish Holocaust tour, Jesse allows Kieran Culkin to walk the line between...

APRIL (Dea Kulumbegashvili 2024) A grueling and powerfully original portrait of a beleaguered and obsessive OB/GYN in aa rural area of Georgia ,...

GRAND TOUR (Miguel Gomes 2024) Portuguese auteur Gomes (ARABIAN NIGHTS, TABU) weaves a fabulous and bizarre period journey through time and...

THE BRUTALIST (Brady Corbet 2024) This portrait of an emigré Hungarian émigré architect (Adrien Brody) and the American magnate he tangles with...

First reviews. THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Mohammad Rasoulof 2024) Diirector prize at Cannes, and important for where it comes from, a brave...

SAORISE RONAN IN BLITZ STEVE MCQUEEN: BLITZ (2024) - NYFF CLOSING NIGHT FILM Steve McQueen, 2024, U.K., 114m North American Premiere...

ROBINSON DEVOR: SUBURBAN FURY (2024 "Suburban Fury" examines the 1975 assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore, a...

SELTON MELLO, FERNANDA TORRES IN I'M STILL HERE WALTER SALLES: I'M STILL HERE Dramatic recreation of the destruction of a family by a...

DANIEL CRAIG AS "WILLIAM LEE" IN QUEER LUCA GUADAGNINO: QUEER (2024) NYFF Spotlight Gala Screening A dramatization of William S. Burroughs'...

JULIANNE MOORE, TILDA SWINTON IN THE ROOM NEXT DOOR PEDRO ALMODÓVAR: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (2024) NYFF Centerpiece Fiim SOURCE Almodovar turns...

VINCENT CASSEL, DIANE KRUGER IN THE SHROUDS DAVID CRONENBERG: THE SHROUDS (2024) Excruciating, precise necrophilia may not be your thing; it's...