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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, so despite careful direction and an excellent cast,...

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 storyline. Jia weaves sequences from earlier...

QUEER (Luca Guadagnino 2024)

Daniel Craig's casting wildly against type as William Lee, the autobiographical protagonist of William Burroughs' minor early novel, in an adaptation by Luca...

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 Nunez, as is another NYFF Main Slate film this year,...

AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Albert Serra 2024)

An extraordinarily vivid and pure documentary of bullfighting in Spain focused exclusively on the gifted young Peruvian-born matador Andrés Roca Rey. ...

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 up deeply sad.

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THE FRIEND (Scott McGehee, David Siegel 2024)

Engaging adaptation of the Sigrid Nunez's National Book Award winner about a woman friend (Naomi Watts) who falls heir to the harlequin Great Dane of...

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 the sixties. Deathly ill, sitting for an admiring...

ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL (Rungano Nyoni 2024)

Surrealism and traditionalism blend in this funeral wake exposure of a dead uncle's sexual predations on young female family members. A...

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Andrés Roca Rey in Afternoons of Solitude

ALBERT SERRA: AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (2024)

Video of Roca Rey (not from the film)

Serra doubles down...

PEPE (Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias 2024)

Writer/director/editor/composer Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias has many ideas flying around in his head when he unreels this high-concept film,...

VIET AND NAM (Trương Minh Quý 2024)

A beautiful, sensuous, almost trance-like film about Vietnam's war legacy, its present stagnation, and two gay twenty-something coalminers who make love down...

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 tangle with their dictatorial, conventional Principal...

HARVEST (Athina Rachel Tsangari 2024).

One tends to get lost in this well-meaning but meanderng adaptaton of an eponymous Jim Crace novel about the last days of a medieval English village. ...

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CALEB LANDRY JONES IN HARVEST

ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI: HARVEST (2024)

Meandering portrait of last days of a medieval English village

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SCENE FROM HAPPYEND

NEO SORA: HAPPYEND (2024)

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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. It's about three women working at a Mumbai...

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 covered by an Israeli-Palestinan collective and...

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 enttertaining and offensive and is seems to work.
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APRIL (Dea Kulumbegashvili 2024)

A grueling and powerfully original portrait of a beleaguered and obsessive OB/GYN in aa rural area of Georgia , this is the sophomore feature by the young...

GRAND TOUR (Miguel Gomes 2024)

Portuguese auteur Gomes (ARABIAN NIGHTS, TABU) weaves a fabulous and bizarre period journey through time and space, blending studio footage with imagery captured in...

THE BRUTALIST (Brady Corbet 2024)

This portrait of an emigré Hungarian émigré architect (Adrien Brody) and the American magnate he tangles with (Guy Pearce) - both impressive - is a fulfilment of...

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THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Mohammad Rasoulof 2024)

Diirector prize at Cannes, and important for where it comes from, a brave and beleaghered Iranian filmmaker. Here, he...

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SAORISE RONAN IN BLITZ


STEVE MCQUEEN: BLITZ (2024) - NYFF CLOSING NIGHT FILM


Steve McQueen, 2024, U.K., 114m
North American Premiere[/B]...

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ROBINSON DEVOR: SUBURBAN FURY (2024

"Suburban Fury" examines the 1975 assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore, a...