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Film Review: ‘Tenzing’ Tells an Old Fashioned Story in an Effectively Traditional Manner
The traditional dramatic biopic is becoming less and less the norm for the genre. More and more, filmmakers are seeking to tackle biographical cinema in new ways, hoping to stave off the staleness that has been creeping in over the years. With Tenzing, the execution of this biopic is effective, if traditional, yet what sets […] More
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Film Review: Watching ‘Musk’ is an Infuriating Yet Essential Experience
At this point, there is no one without an opinion in regards to Elon Musk. There are people who blindly love the man, whether because they worship technology, a political point of view, or some even less savory reasons. At the same time, there are people who despise him, for many of the opposite reasons. […] More
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Film Review: ‘The Social Reckoning’ Makes a Compelling Case as a Worthy Companion Piece to ‘The Social Network’
We can get it out of the way up front. The Social Reckoning is not in the same league as The Social Network. The latter is a masterpiece, with not just some of Aaron Sorkin‘s best writing, but David Fincher‘s best directing as well. So, there’s no shame in this film not being on the […] More
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Film Review: ‘V/H/S/Mixtape’ is a Thematically Cohesive New Installment in the Long-Running Horror Anthology
It remains nice to see the V/H/S franchise continue to survive, especially after some strong entries back to back. Previously, we’ve seen the series swing back and forth in terms of quality over the years. Initially, it was a solid if never spectacular anthology outing, one that seemed to have its time come and go a while […] More
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NYFF Film Review: ‘Artificial’ is a Funny Yet Also Terrifying Look at the Irresponsibility That Could Lead to Our AI Doom
There are few things scarier these days than any story about the progression of artificial intelligence. Every new big of information about AI and what it can do, or even might do, is absolutely chilling. Between a litany of science fiction warnings, our own human instinct for destruction, and the overall way the world seems […] More
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NYFF Film Review: Pedro Pascal Gets a Grand Solo in Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’
Pedro Pascal has long deserved a big screen showcase like the one he gets in Behemoth!, the Centerpiece selection of the 2026 New York Film Festival. Not only delivering the best cinematic performance of his career, Pascal also gets to explore some tricky territory for writer/director Tony Gilroy. The film itself is good, often very […] More
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NYFF Film Review: ‘NAZA’ is a Chilling Account of Investigative Journalism During Wartime
Regardless of your thoughts about the war in Gaza, it should be unrcontionable for civilians to be murdered. Whether it’s soldiers or terrorists, it’s just plain wrong to target innocents. That should be a common sense take, if not a particularly nuanced one. Of course, this particular war has become such a wedge issue and […] More
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Film Review: ‘Atonement’ Presents a Harrowing Look at the Cost of War
Thanks to two incredible performances from Hiam Abbass and Boyd Holbrook, Reed Van Dyk pertinently reflects on the cost of war with Atonement. More
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Film Review: Sian Clifford is in the Lap of Luxury with ‘Lady’
A lady is polite. She never causes a scene, she never gossips nor interrupts. Lady Isabella, by this definition, is no lady. She is, however, deliciously entertaining. To summarize what Lady is about, in its range of genre and zany premise, may well be impossible. Instead, I can tell you what Lady is not: Lady […] More
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Film Review: Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu Swing for the Fences with the Fascinating Misfire ‘Digger’
Talking about Digger without spoilers is incredibly difficult, I’ll just say that up front. So much of both what works and what doesn’t work here is contained within an element of the film that we as critics have been asked not to reveal. So, I won’t, but just know that a future article will be […] More
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NYFF Film Review: Eleanor Coppola is a Masterful Observer in the Layered Documentary ‘Making Marie Antoinette’
Every documentarian has their own taste. Eleanor Coppola‘s is to turn on the camera and roll on things that interest her. On location of Marie Antoinette, directed by her daughter Sofia Coppola in 2006, what interested her was time. Jason Schwartzman plucking a harpsicord, flip flops intermingling with French silk kitten heels, a man on […] More
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NYFF Film Review: ‘Misty Green’ is an Imperfect Yet Compelling Character Study from Chris Rock with a Breakthrough Star Turn from Rosalind Eleazar
It’s hardly a novel concept to present to audiences that Hollywood can chew a person up and spit them out. In fact, films about Hollywood almost exclusively traffic in failed dreams. So, for Chris Rock to want to make a movie about Hollywood, there would have to be a hook of some kind. With Misty […] More
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