Thursday, February 13, 2025

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Movie Review (NYFF 2024): ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Takes a Twisted Turn Through Trauma

Director: Rungano NyoniWriter: Rungano NyoniStars: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini Synopsis: On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings...

NYFF Capsule Documentary Reviews: ‘DIRECT ACTION, ‘exergue – on documenta 14,’ ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,’ ‘Youth (Hard Times),’...

While the most-discussed title of significant length at this year’s 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival is almost certainly Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour historical epic, The Brutalist, the longest films in...

Movie Review (NYFF 2024): ‘Dahomey’ Gives Looted African Art an Identity and a Voice

Director: Mati DiopWriter: Mati Diop Synopsis: The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin, a French-speaking West African nation. If a short...

Movie Review: ‘Speak No Evil’ is a Competent Remake, and Nothing More

Director: James WatkinsWriter: James WatkinsStars: James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy Synopsis: When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they...

Movie Review (NYFF 2024): ‘Who By Fire’ Places Rivalry and Desire Center Stage  

Director: Philippe LesageWriter: Philippe LesageStars: Noah Parker, Aurelia Arandi-Longpré, Arieh Worthalter, Paul Ahmarani Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Jeff stays at film director Blake Cadieux's wilderness lodge after being invited by friend Max's family. When strange...

Movie Review (NYFF 2024): ‘No Other Land’ is the Year’s Most Vital and Gutting Film

Directors: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel SzorWriters: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel SzorStars: Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal Synopsis: Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this documentary shows the...

Movie Review (NYFF 2024): ‘Happyend’ is a Clever Examination of Complexity

Director: Neo SoraWriter: Neo SoraStars: Hayato Kurihara, Yukito Hidaka, Yuta Hayashi Synopsis: A near-future Tokyo awaits destruction as the city is rocked by a series of foreshocks that predict a larger, more disastrous...

Movie Review (NYFF 2024): ‘Harvest’ is a Visual Feast, But It’s All Empty Calories

Director: Athina Rachel TsangariWriters: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Joslyn BarnesStars: Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen Synopsis: Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Given...

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