In Bradley Cooper's third outing as director, Will Arnett and Laura Dern portray a couple whose separation leads to an unpredictable midlife catharsis.
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New York Film Festival Review: ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ from Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch constructs three scenarios about family, all different, but all revealing isolation between adult children and their parents.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Late Fame’ with Willem Dafoe
In 'Late Fame' a former poet (Willem Dafoe) is lured with flattery into a salon of wannabe poets, whose authenticity is suspect.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Miroirs No. 3’
Director Christian Petzold explores questions about spiritual consciousness, broken humanity, inner dislocation and the slow road to recovery after trauma.
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘Happyend’
Japanese writer-director Neo Sora's narrative feature film debut 'Happyend' confronts us about our political fears and seeming powerlessness in the face of looming environmental disasters.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Fallen Leaves’
'Fallen Leaves' is Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's ironic, charming love story of working-class heroes rising above their circumstances to help each other.
Read More »Film Review: ‘The Taste of Things’ at the New York Film Festival
'The Taste of Things' is a mesmerizing visual pageant of the gastronomic exploits of a cook and a chef (Juliet Binoche and Benoît Magimel) in 19th-century France.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’
In 'Anatomy of a Fall' a famous novelist is tried for murdering her husband. The family dog Snoop provides a key clue to the husband's mysterious death.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’
'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' focuses on Nan Goldin's intersection of photographic artistry and fierce activism.
Read More »New York Film Festival Documentary Review: ‘All That Breathes’
'All That Breathes' is an award-winning documentary and a lyrical tone poem about animal rescue in New Delhi – and rescuing the Earth.
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