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PIETRO MARCELLO: SCARLET/L'ENVOL (2022)

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JULIETTE JOUAN, LOUIS GARREL IN SCARLET

Prince charming falls from the sky

TRAILER

The respected,...

PAUL SCHRADER: THE MASTER GARDENER (2022)

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JOEL EGERTON AND SIGOURNEY WEAVER

Familiar ground

There's a certain danger for reviewers to write...

ALBERT SERRA: PACIFICTION (2022)

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MAGIMEL CHAUFFEURED ON JET SKI IN PACIICTION

Benoît Magimel triumphs winging it as a slimy French colonial bigwig
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Metacritic ratings of NYFF 2022 Films and links to reviews

Opening Night
“White Noise”
Dir. Noah Baumbach
Metacritic: 66%

Centerpiece
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
Dir. Laura Poitras

JAFAR PANAHI: NO BEARS (2022)

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JAFAR PANAHI (RIGHT) IN NO BEARS

The oppressed Iranian filmmaker's fifth clandestine film is a dry multi-layered puzzler...

KELLY REICHARDT: SHOWING UP (2022)

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MICHELLE WILLIAMS, HONG CHAU IN SHOWING UP

An artist prepares for her show

I previously wrote about Kelly...

SHAUMAK SEN: ALL THAT BREATHES (2022)

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SALIK REHMAN IN ALL THAT BREATHES Credit: CitySpidey

"One shouldn't differentiate between all that breathes"
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MATI DIOP: SAINT OMER (2022)

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GUSLAGIE MALANDA IN SAINT OMER

Mati Diop's impressive but frustrating first fiction feature arouses more questions than...

DAVY CHOU: RETURN TO SEOUL/RETOUR À SÉOUL (2022)

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PARK JI-MIN IN RETURN TO SEOUL Thomas Favel/Aurora Films/Sony Pictures Classics

An aggressive search...

NOAH BAUMBACH: WHITE NOISE (2022

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Baumbach goes big

The obvious link of White Noise with Noah Baumbach's first film, The Squid and the Whale (NYFF...

LAURA POITRAS: ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (2022)

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NAN GOLDIN TODAY IN ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

Committed biography

Laura Poitras's...

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI: EO (2022) - NYFF

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The picaresque tale of a donkey

Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski at 84 perhaps has nothing to prove except to...

MIA HANSEN-LØVE: ONE FINE MORNING (2022) - NYFF

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MELVIL POUPAUD, CAMILLE LEBAN MARTINS, LÉA SEYDOUX IN ONE FINE DAY

Joys and sorrows of life on life's...

JOANNA HOGG: THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (2022)

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TILDA SWINTON IN THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER

A trip north

The Eternal Daughter may be categorized as a film of...

ELEGANCE BRATTON: THE INSPECTION (2022)

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JEREMY POPE IN THE INSPECTION

A Black gay man goes through Marine boot camp successfully but doesn't gain...

CLAIRE DENIS: STARS AT NOON (2022)

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JOE ALWYN, MARGARET QUALLEY IN STARS AT NOON

Two Anglos in lust and in danger in central America

Issuing a second...

HONG SANG-SOO: THE NOVELIST'S FILM 2022)

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KIM MIN-HEE, LEE HYE-YOUNG, AND HA SEONG-GUK IN THE NOVELIST'S FILM

Turning to another medium in a dry...

LUCA GUADAGNINO: BONES AND ALL (2022)

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TAYLOR RUSSELL AND TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET IN BONES AND ALL

Almost enchanted, one still asks "Why?"

Luca...

MARIA SCHRADER: SHE SAID (2022)

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CAREY MULLIGAN AND ZOE KAZAN IN SHE SAID

'Times' Harvey Weinstein investigation story feels flat

A two-woman...

FREDERICK WISEMAN: A COUPLE (2022)

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NATHALIE BOUTEFEU IN A COUPLE

A COUPLE (Frederick Wiseman) gets a 4/5 in Peter Bradshaw's Guardian review, which ...

MARIE KREUTZER: CORSAGE (2022)

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VICKY KRIEPS IN CORSAGE

A love-it-or-hate-it radicalized portrait of the Empress of Austria

Corsage, whose title...

MARGARET BROWN: DESCENDANT (2022)

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EMMETT LEWIS IN DESCENDANT

People and a place and the indelible scar of enslavement

The power and deep message...

CHARLOTTE WELLS: AFTERSUN (2022) - NYFF

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FRANKIE CORIO AND PAUL MESCAL IN AFTERSUN

An ephemeral, sad, and somewhat indigestible masterpiece

A.O....

JAMES GRAY: ARMAGEDDON TIME (2022) -NYFF

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JAYLIN WEBB, BANKS REPETA IN ARMAGEDDON TIME

TRAILER

Profiles in cowardice

My title refers ironically...

TODD FIELD: TÁR (2022)

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CATE BLANCHETT IN TÁR

A shimmering portrait of brilliance, cruelty, and downfall

This is a story of power and prestige and...