† This is the Life

Sep 11, 2020 — As Toronto opens, here’s an overview of early critical response to some of the festival’s titles arriving directly from their premieres in Venice.

Aug 25, 2020 — The NYFF presents its inaugural Currents lineup, and the Berlinale’s acting awards are going gender-neutral.

Aug 13, 2020 — The author and Tablet columnist has written a tight critical biography.

Jun 18, 2020 — James Gray is switching gears, Pablo Larraín is teaming up with Kristen Stewart, and Kirill Serebrennikov is set to take on the life of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Mar 3, 2020 — Mohammad Rasoulof has won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear, and Eliza Hittman is taking home the grand jury prize.

Oct 10, 2019 — Dark Passages Where the sea and the city meet, they corrupt each other. Around docks, the ocean’s margins are scummy with oil and floating garbage; the water corrodes hulls, encrusts pilings, and slimes steps. Ports cater to men who come...

Oct 9, 2019 — This year’s program has taken NYFF attendees to Soviet Russia, Lebanon, Chile, back home to the Big Apple, and behind bars.

Sep 19, 2019 — Reteaming with Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish star delivers a performance all the more powerful for its restraint.

Jul 23, 2019 — He even walks in stereo. So proclaims a kid on a stoop toward the beginning of Do the Right Thing; he’s stunned by the sun but also by the sight and sound of Radio Raheem. Raheem is silent but so...

May 28, 2019 — It has taken me forty years to appreciate the audacity of Agnès Varda in writing and directing One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977). Not only did Varda make her subject the most crucial and vexed issue of the feminist movement, at that...