Film
Besides Chainsaw Man’s abundant visual pleasures and uncompromising blend of ultra-violence and adolescent sexuality, one of its particular draws is that it’s a cinephile’s anime.
A trio of superb films that feature fierce women.
There’s a profound catharsis in watching “Bugonia,” one that echoes the catharsis articulated by those who attended the ‘No Kings’ protests on the 18th.
“The Mastermind” points to the impossibility of trying to live as though the outside world and its politics don’t exist.
Our critic watched a half-dozen films in this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival and shares his thoughts.
Director Hal Hartley is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living.
In “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater thrillingly captures the sense of Jean-Luc Godard as an artist feeling his way in real time, as if in a dark room, toward a new vision.
Three powerful films at NYFF about violence, survival, and revenge.
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