Editors Note: Master Gardener is now playing in theaters via Magnolia Pictures. Below is Matt Delman’s review from the New York Film Festival. (The 60th New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 30-October 16. Check out Matt Delman’s movie review […]

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One film that took Cannes by surprise this year was Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’ emotional feature debut, Aftersun. Her “emotionally autobiographical” film stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio as a father and daughter Calum and Sophie who take a […]

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Shaunak Sen’s documentary All That Breathes is beginning to make waves this awards season. With breathtaking cinematography, it immerses us into the lives of two brothers in Delhi, India who devote their lives to caring for a rare bird species […]

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Six years after The Handmaiden, South Korean master Park Chan-wook returns with a new erotic thriller of Hitchcokian proportions that is bound to make jaws drop and heads spin. The Oldboy director premiered his romantic thriller Decision To Leave at […]

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“A lion doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.” Vicky Krieps takes command on the big screen yet again as the real-life 19th-Century Austrian Empress Elizabeth, aka “Sisi” in writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage. The film premiered at the Cannes […]

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If there’s a filmmaker who knows how to tell an intimate New York story, it’s James Gray. The writer-director made his mark with underrated crime dramas such as his directorial debut Little Odessa, the underseen The Yards, and We Own […]

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Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and their kids are facing an uncertain reality in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise. An adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel of the same name, it is set to premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival, and […]

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One of the most anticipated films of the fall festival season is writer-director Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection. Known for his intimate and empathetic documentary Pier Kids, Bratton makes his narrative feature debut which will have its world premiere at the […]

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Following last week’s Main Slate lineup announcement, the New York Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year’s Spotlight section. The notable selection of world premieres includes Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, Martin Scorsese’s new rock documentary Personality Crisis: One Night […]

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