A Good Person

Aug 28, 2024 — Albert Brooks and Debbie Reynolds are at their comedic best in this tale of parent-child bonding filled with Oedipal humor and emotional insight.

Jul 12, 2024 — With an inexplicable, irresistibly magnetic charm, she immediately drew our attention—and won our hearts.

May 21, 2024 — The reviews are in for Caught by the Tides, Emilia Pérez, and The Substance.

Oct 17, 2023 — I. “Morbid Cinema” On October 10, 1962, there appeared a brief paragraph from the Associated Press: “Tod Browning, eighty-two, who directed scores of movies between 1917 and 1939, is dead. He succumbed Saturday after an illness, and no funeral plans...

Jul 10, 2023 — Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev took the top prize, while the Yasuzo Masumura retrospective thrilled attendees.

May 10, 2023 — The critic and memoirist expands on her 2017 essay “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?”

Jan 30, 2023 — The festival is sending around two dozen award-winners out into an uncertain marketplace.

Nov 23, 2022 — Featured in this month’s roundup: Maya Deren, Joyce Chopra, Michael Almereyda, Nabokov, Pasolini, and Miyazaki.

Sep 28, 2022 — This melodrama, made by André de Toth in his native Hungary, anticipates the unease of the director’s postwar Hollywood films with an array of radical stylistic choices and jarring visual tensions.

Aug 25, 2022 — While working on our edition of Martin Scorsese’s 1980 masterpiece, producer Abbey Lustgarten found out how the director achieved some of the movie’s most evocative visual and sonic effects.