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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterAn essential retrospective of Brazil’s L.C. Barreto Productions begins. Roxy CinemaAnother Woman and The Lords of Flatbush play on 35mm. Museum of the Moving ImageA retrospective of the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden begins; The Gleaners and I plays on Saturday; Speed Racer […]

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I always find it difficult to write about performances. Whenever I try I feel like I’m merely describing an actor’s work––how they talk, how they move––and the best among them have a way of turning those choices into an alchemy that makes all adjectives redundant. But there are some for whom the task is twice […]

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The road for Jeremy Saulnier to realize his fifth feature was one of stops and starts, culminating in a process of nearly five years from the original casting announcement to the film’s arrival on Netflix. However, watching the immensely entertaining Rebel Ridge, one can see no cracks in the surface. Led by a commanding Aaron […]

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If you’ve already dived into our massive fall movie preview, then you have a strong sense of what to have on your radar over the next four months. Now let’s examine September a little closer, already including a few new additions since our fall preview went up. Of course, from Venice to TIFF to NYFF, […]

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After crafting one of the most remarkable documentaries of the last few years with the Apichatpong Weerasethakul-backed, Sundance-winning, Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening, director RaMell Ross has moved into narrative fiction with an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed, Pulitzer-winning 2019 novel The Nickel Boys. Going inside the true story of abuses at the juvenile reformatory […]

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The excitement of Megalopolis‘ theatrical trailer was first buoyed by a stance against critical myopia that was then undermined by said myopia being fake. With that AI-related snafu out of the way, the film is just a few weeks from release, and with IMAX tickets now on-sale for a September 23 preview there’s an updated […]

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Grieving comes in many guises. In Courtney Stephens’ Invention, speculative fiction blends with personal history to explore the ways we process death. The subject is Callie Hernandez, an actress and filmmaker whose father died of a COVID-related illness in 2021. There’s much archival footage of the man, mostly television recordings from his times as a […]

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Early last year, a theory started doing the rounds: if comic-book movies have lost their sheen, might video-game adaptations take their place? Two of the biggest and most widely discussed entertainments at the time, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Last of Us, began their lives on consoles. One was ostensibly about gaming; the […]

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Lee Daniels wants to do it all. The filmmaker behind Monster’s Ball, Precious, and The Butler has made an endlessly compelling horror movie, The Deliverance, for Netflix, starring Andra Day, Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. The Film Stage chatted with Daniels about his new film, never wanting to do the same thing twice, loving […]

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In a twist for the ages, the greatest joke of Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel––which contains far fewer punchlines than the first, regardless of how they land––is the movie itself. Not in craft, but the film’s holistic departure from its predecessor. After an explosive response, Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver knew exactly what chaos people would […]

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