This review contains spoilers.  Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another  (Anderson) Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another  is his first movie set in the modern era, and incredibly relevant for the time. Anderson proclaims the importance of the undying spirit of revolution, even against the strongest fascist regimes, and how those who have love stand stronger and more resolute than people built around hate. It balances these ideas with thrilling action sequence

Alice Tully Hall  might be the best space that I have ever had the pleasure of watching a film in. The ceiling rises far above, making way for floor and balcony seating as if you were in an opera house. It is not technically IMAX, but it could have been with the size of the screen present in the theater. NYFF also announced that the space had been newly fitted with Dolby Atmos. The whole space feels like a concert hall, finely tuned purely for motion pictures. Every seat, all

This review contains spoilers. Park Chan-wook’s newest feature film No Other Choice is a South Korean capitalist critique through a provocative lens. It follows You Man-soo (Lee Byung-hun), a “paperman” of 25 years who has been fired as a manager from his company after restructuring by the new American owners. This prompts him to plan the murders of the three other men eligible for a job opening at the successful company Moon Paper, taking them out so that he can pass the in

A scene in Luca Guadagnino’s newest feature After the Hunt rehearses a familiar confrontation. Yale professor Hank (Andrew Garfield) has been accused of sexually assaulting a student, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri). To his colleague Alma (Julia Roberts), with whom he shares a romantic past, he deploys every well-worn defense: Maggie tried to seduce him; she plagiarized, so she is now lying to discredit him. He even admits it sounds like a cliché.  At this point, a quarter of the way in

In the world of cinema, the concept of “betterment” often coincides with violent themes: narratives of ambition, vindication, or survival. But what happens when two films—one a somber European mystery and the other a cerebral sci-fi epic—approach self-improvement from the perspective of listening to yourself ? Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique (1991) and Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 (2024) might seem worlds apart, yet both explore how memory, intuition, and pass

Now that awards season is over, let’s discuss the imposter among a multitude of Oscar-worthy films. I’m talking about none other than Emilia Pérez , Netflix’s biggest flop. Viewers’ collective agreement that the film is garbage says enough; constantly hearing about how bad this movie is causes most people to decide against watching it. With that being said, I decided to take one for the team and watch Emilia Pérez for you. I saved you 2 hours and 12 minutes of your life. You