Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour impressed critics on Screen International’s Cannes jury grid while Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino saw mixed results.
Gomes’ first Cannes Competition feature scored an average of three after The Telegraph, Justin Chang (La Times), Kong Rithdee (Bangkok Post) and Screen’s own critic gave it ’four stars’ (excellent). The black-and-white feature also received five ‘three stars’ (good), two ‘two stars’ (average), and one ’one star’ (poor) from Nt Binh at France’s Positif.
Set in 1917, Grand Tour stars Goncalo Waddington as a British Empire official in Burma who runs away on his wedding day, only...
Gomes’ first Cannes Competition feature scored an average of three after The Telegraph, Justin Chang (La Times), Kong Rithdee (Bangkok Post) and Screen’s own critic gave it ’four stars’ (excellent). The black-and-white feature also received five ‘three stars’ (good), two ‘two stars’ (average), and one ’one star’ (poor) from Nt Binh at France’s Positif.
Set in 1917, Grand Tour stars Goncalo Waddington as a British Empire official in Burma who runs away on his wedding day, only...
- 5/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Jia Zhangke’s Caught By The Tides is the new leader on Screen International’s Cannes jury grid with an average score of 2.6.
The Chinese romance epic received one four (excellent) from Justin Chang (LA Times) followed by seven threes (good). On the other end, The Telegraph and Katja Nicodemus of Germany’s Die Zeit gave it just one star.
This is Jia’s sixth time in Competition with highlights including 2015’s Mountains May Depart which scored 2.8 and 2013’s A Touch Of Sin on 3.
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Caught By The Tides chronicles...
The Chinese romance epic received one four (excellent) from Justin Chang (LA Times) followed by seven threes (good). On the other end, The Telegraph and Katja Nicodemus of Germany’s Die Zeit gave it just one star.
This is Jia’s sixth time in Competition with highlights including 2015’s Mountains May Depart which scored 2.8 and 2013’s A Touch Of Sin on 3.
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Caught By The Tides chronicles...
- 5/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness has landed top of Screen International’s Cannes jury grid with an average score of 2.4.
The triptych drama is the first film so far to receive a four (excellent), both from Le Meduza’s Anton Dolin and Screen’s own critic. Others were less convinced with Mathieu Macharet (France’s Le Monde) and Stephanie Zacharek (US Time) both giving it just one (poor).
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Lanthimos has proved divisive on the jury grid before, in 2017 with The Killing Of A Sacred Deer which scored a 1.9 overall...
The triptych drama is the first film so far to receive a four (excellent), both from Le Meduza’s Anton Dolin and Screen’s own critic. Others were less convinced with Mathieu Macharet (France’s Le Monde) and Stephanie Zacharek (US Time) both giving it just one (poor).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Lanthimos has proved divisive on the jury grid before, in 2017 with The Killing Of A Sacred Deer which scored a 1.9 overall...
- 5/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Screen International can reveal the critics participating in this year’s jury grid at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
Joining Screen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 22 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.
This year’s critics are all returners to the jury grid with the exception of Nt Binh who replaces Michel Ciment for France’s Positif. Ciment passed away in November last year at 85 and was a long-time contributor to the jury grid.
The selection also includes Justin Chang for The New Yorker who...
Joining Screen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 22 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.
This year’s critics are all returners to the jury grid with the exception of Nt Binh who replaces Michel Ciment for France’s Positif. Ciment passed away in November last year at 85 and was a long-time contributor to the jury grid.
The selection also includes Justin Chang for The New Yorker who...
- 5/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
Film critic Justin Chang won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for criticism on Monday for varied and “richly evocative” work that telegraphs how Americans see movies now.
The New Yorker‘s current film critic won the prize on Monday for his 2023 work at the Los Angeles Times, where he worked until early 2024. Other nominees in the category included novelist and essayist Zadie Smith, who was nominated for her New York Review of Books review of the 2022 film Tar, and The New Yorker‘s theater critic Vinson Cunningham for a number of reviews that evinced “a formidable knowledge of the stage and the mechanics of performance along with canny observations on the human condition.”
During the 2024 ceremony, the late cultural critic Greg Tate — who wrote for The Village Voice and Rolling Stone — also received a special citation for his work. “His language, cribbed from literature, academia, popular culture and hip-hop was as...
The New Yorker‘s current film critic won the prize on Monday for his 2023 work at the Los Angeles Times, where he worked until early 2024. Other nominees in the category included novelist and essayist Zadie Smith, who was nominated for her New York Review of Books review of the 2022 film Tar, and The New Yorker‘s theater critic Vinson Cunningham for a number of reviews that evinced “a formidable knowledge of the stage and the mechanics of performance along with canny observations on the human condition.”
During the 2024 ceremony, the late cultural critic Greg Tate — who wrote for The Village Voice and Rolling Stone — also received a special citation for his work. “His language, cribbed from literature, academia, popular culture and hip-hop was as...
- 5/6/2024
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Primary Trust, Eboni Booth’s play that was given an Off Broadway staging by Roundabout Theatre Company last summer, won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today.
The play was described by the Pulitzer board as “A simple and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new friends and a new sense of worth, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change a person’s life and enrich an entire community.”
The critically acclaimed play follows Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker who, in the words of Roundabout’s synopsis, “spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he’s suddenly laid off, Kenneth finally begins to face a world he’s long avoided – with transformative and even comical results.”
“This is the story of friendship,” Kenneth says in the play. “Of how I got a new job. A story of love and balance and time.
The play was described by the Pulitzer board as “A simple and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new friends and a new sense of worth, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change a person’s life and enrich an entire community.”
The critically acclaimed play follows Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker who, in the words of Roundabout’s synopsis, “spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he’s suddenly laid off, Kenneth finally begins to face a world he’s long avoided – with transformative and even comical results.”
“This is the story of friendship,” Kenneth says in the play. “Of how I got a new job. A story of love and balance and time.
- 5/6/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The New Yorker’s Justin Chang won a Pulitzer Prize for his movie criticism during his tenure at the Los Angeles Times.
Chang also is the former film critic for Variety. The judges recognized Chang for his “richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience.”
The New York Times, Reuters, the New Yorker and The Washington Post were among the multiple winners.
A special citation also was given to the journalists covering the war in Gaza. The Times’ prizes included one for its international reporting of the Hamas attack on Israel and the war in Gaza.
A special citation also was awarded to Greg Tate, the late writer and critic. “His aesthetic innovations and intellectual originality, particularly in his pioneering hip hop criticism, continue to influence subsequent generations, particularly writers and critics of color.”
The New York Times won prizes for investigative reporting, international reporting and feature writing.
Chang also is the former film critic for Variety. The judges recognized Chang for his “richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience.”
The New York Times, Reuters, the New Yorker and The Washington Post were among the multiple winners.
A special citation also was given to the journalists covering the war in Gaza. The Times’ prizes included one for its international reporting of the Hamas attack on Israel and the war in Gaza.
A special citation also was awarded to Greg Tate, the late writer and critic. “His aesthetic innovations and intellectual originality, particularly in his pioneering hip hop criticism, continue to influence subsequent generations, particularly writers and critics of color.”
The New York Times won prizes for investigative reporting, international reporting and feature writing.
- 5/6/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Warning: This article discusses major spoilers for "Civil War."
At no point in Alex Garland's "Civil War" (reviewed by /Film's Jacob Hall here) do we ever find out what actually triggered the nationwide descent into chaos and violence raging throughout the movie. The action begins with Nick Offerman's unnamed President of the United States quietly reciting a prepared statement to himself, struggling to find the perfect cadence and tone for a speech that, as we eventually learn, serves as a desperate last gasp from the losing side's propaganda machine. The film ends with rebel soldiers standing triumphantly over that same President, now deposed, and celebrating over his still-warm corpse like countless wartime images beamed back from abroad to so-called First World countries -- all of whom would contend they'd never commit such savagery. In between, we follow our journalist protagonists Lee (Kirsten Dunst), Joel (Wagner Moura), Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson...
At no point in Alex Garland's "Civil War" (reviewed by /Film's Jacob Hall here) do we ever find out what actually triggered the nationwide descent into chaos and violence raging throughout the movie. The action begins with Nick Offerman's unnamed President of the United States quietly reciting a prepared statement to himself, struggling to find the perfect cadence and tone for a speech that, as we eventually learn, serves as a desperate last gasp from the losing side's propaganda machine. The film ends with rebel soldiers standing triumphantly over that same President, now deposed, and celebrating over his still-warm corpse like countless wartime images beamed back from abroad to so-called First World countries -- all of whom would contend they'd never commit such savagery. In between, we follow our journalist protagonists Lee (Kirsten Dunst), Joel (Wagner Moura), Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson...
- 4/12/2024
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
“Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft.” – Tim Bisley, Spaced, “Change” (2001).
Reviews for The Phantom Menace were, it’s fair to say, mixed. Looking back on it, that’s understandable. It’s a mixed film. After a lot of excitement and hype for the return of the game-changing franchise, some anti-climax was inevitable. 133 minutes and countless midi-chlorians later, a sense of disappointment gave way to rage for some.
Attack of the Clones had an improved, if not stellar, critical reception and Revenge of the Sith continued this trend to be recognized as the best of the three. That said, despite the upward trajectory there was a sense that these films would never recover from their initial mauling and that their lasting legacy would be their failure to recapture the magic of the Original Trilogy in a sustained way.
But 25 years after the release of The Phantom Menace,...
Reviews for The Phantom Menace were, it’s fair to say, mixed. Looking back on it, that’s understandable. It’s a mixed film. After a lot of excitement and hype for the return of the game-changing franchise, some anti-climax was inevitable. 133 minutes and countless midi-chlorians later, a sense of disappointment gave way to rage for some.
Attack of the Clones had an improved, if not stellar, critical reception and Revenge of the Sith continued this trend to be recognized as the best of the three. That said, despite the upward trajectory there was a sense that these films would never recover from their initial mauling and that their lasting legacy would be their failure to recapture the magic of the Original Trilogy in a sustained way.
But 25 years after the release of The Phantom Menace,...
- 3/26/2024
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
One of the nation’s top film critics, Justin Chang, is leaving the beleaguered Los Angeles Times, taking his fluid prose and winning personality to The New Yorker.
Chang previously worked for years at Variety, from 2004 to 2016, when he moved to the LA Times. He starts his new position on Feb. 12.
The New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick welcomed Chang in a memo to magazine staffers.
“Justin and his family are based in Los Angeles, but he’ll be visiting us in New York from time to time,” Remnick said in the memo, which was obtained by Deadline. He ticked off key points of Chang’s impressive bio — “named film critic of the year at the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Awards. His book, ‘FilmCraft: Editing,’ was published in 2011. He serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association...
Chang previously worked for years at Variety, from 2004 to 2016, when he moved to the LA Times. He starts his new position on Feb. 12.
The New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick welcomed Chang in a memo to magazine staffers.
“Justin and his family are based in Los Angeles, but he’ll be visiting us in New York from time to time,” Remnick said in the memo, which was obtained by Deadline. He ticked off key points of Chang’s impressive bio — “named film critic of the year at the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Awards. His book, ‘FilmCraft: Editing,’ was published in 2011. He serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association...
- 1/30/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Film critic and Variety alum Justin Chang is leaving the Los Angeles Times for The New Yorker. He will join the publication as a film critic on Feb. 12.
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, made the announcement on Tuesday morning. Chang, who is based in Los Angeles, will visit New York “from time to time,” Remnick said.
Chang was a longtime film critic as Variety, starting in 2004. He left to join the Los Angeles Times in 2016. Before joining Variety, he was a freelance entertainment writer for the Orange County Register and the L.A. Times.
Chang has been named film critic of the year at the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Awards. His book, “FilmCraft: Editing,” was published in 2011. He serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and is a member of the...
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, made the announcement on Tuesday morning. Chang, who is based in Los Angeles, will visit New York “from time to time,” Remnick said.
Chang was a longtime film critic as Variety, starting in 2004. He left to join the Los Angeles Times in 2016. Before joining Variety, he was a freelance entertainment writer for the Orange County Register and the L.A. Times.
Chang has been named film critic of the year at the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Awards. His book, “FilmCraft: Editing,” was published in 2011. He serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and is a member of the...
- 1/30/2024
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Film critic Justin Chang has joined The New Yorker.
One of the most celebrated critics in the U.S., Chang has worked for several years at the Los Angeles Times where he’s published weekly reviews as well as longer-form essays, such as a deep dive on how “omission does not mean erasure” when it comes “Oppenheimer.” Before the L.A. Times, he worked for some years at Variety.
Chang is one of the top wordsmiths in film criticism today, devoted to sentence-level beauty in his writing that makes him a perfect fit for the New Yorker. He is also the most glorious and shameless pun-meister of the critical sphere, issuing his bon mots with abandon on Twitter/X. A recent example? “No Greta Gerwig in director or Greta Lee in lead actress, re-Greta-bly.” Though his all-time best may be referring to “Mektoub” director Abdellatif Kechiche as “a gluteus maximalist,” and...
One of the most celebrated critics in the U.S., Chang has worked for several years at the Los Angeles Times where he’s published weekly reviews as well as longer-form essays, such as a deep dive on how “omission does not mean erasure” when it comes “Oppenheimer.” Before the L.A. Times, he worked for some years at Variety.
Chang is one of the top wordsmiths in film criticism today, devoted to sentence-level beauty in his writing that makes him a perfect fit for the New Yorker. He is also the most glorious and shameless pun-meister of the critical sphere, issuing his bon mots with abandon on Twitter/X. A recent example? “No Greta Gerwig in director or Greta Lee in lead actress, re-Greta-bly.” Though his all-time best may be referring to “Mektoub” director Abdellatif Kechiche as “a gluteus maximalist,” and...
- 1/30/2024
- by Christian Blauvelt and Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang is leaving the publication to join The New Yorker.
Chang, who had been with the Times since 2016, departs the publication as it contends with the recent layoffs of 115 staffers and the resignation of executive editor Kevin Merida. Editorial page editor Terry Tang has been named interim executive editor.
He takes on the job at The New Yorker as longtime critic Anthony Lane, who has held the post for three decades, broadens his beat beyond film to write on a variety of subjects, including reported pieces and critical essays about the arts. Lane’s last movie column will be published in The New Yorker’s anniversary issue, however, his writing will continue to appear in the magazine.
Chang begins in the new post at The New Yorker on Feb. 12.
In addition to his previous post at The Los Angeles Times, Chang teaches at the...
Chang, who had been with the Times since 2016, departs the publication as it contends with the recent layoffs of 115 staffers and the resignation of executive editor Kevin Merida. Editorial page editor Terry Tang has been named interim executive editor.
He takes on the job at The New Yorker as longtime critic Anthony Lane, who has held the post for three decades, broadens his beat beyond film to write on a variety of subjects, including reported pieces and critical essays about the arts. Lane’s last movie column will be published in The New Yorker’s anniversary issue, however, his writing will continue to appear in the magazine.
Chang begins in the new post at The New Yorker on Feb. 12.
In addition to his previous post at The Los Angeles Times, Chang teaches at the...
- 1/30/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shortcomings – Picture: Sony Pictures Classics
Randall Park had his first directorial debut in 2023 with the feature film Shortcomings released last August following its initial Sundance Film Festival debut. In February 2024, the movie will be bound for Netflix in the United States, with it due to touch down on February 1st.
Starring Justin H. Min (who will soon appear again on Netflix for the final season of The Umbrella Academy) and Sherry Cola, the romantic comedy is about a Berkeley arthouse movie theater manager starting to navigate single life after his girlfriend departs for a three-month internship in New York City.
The cast also features Ally Maki, Tavi Gevinson, Debby Ryan, Sonoya Mizuno, and director Randall Park even makes a brief appearance.
Certified Fresh on RottenTomatoes, the movie has received strong reviews from critics and audiences alike, currently sitting at an 84% critic and 85% audience scores.
Justin Chang for the Los Angeles...
Randall Park had his first directorial debut in 2023 with the feature film Shortcomings released last August following its initial Sundance Film Festival debut. In February 2024, the movie will be bound for Netflix in the United States, with it due to touch down on February 1st.
Starring Justin H. Min (who will soon appear again on Netflix for the final season of The Umbrella Academy) and Sherry Cola, the romantic comedy is about a Berkeley arthouse movie theater manager starting to navigate single life after his girlfriend departs for a three-month internship in New York City.
The cast also features Ally Maki, Tavi Gevinson, Debby Ryan, Sonoya Mizuno, and director Randall Park even makes a brief appearance.
Certified Fresh on RottenTomatoes, the movie has received strong reviews from critics and audiences alike, currently sitting at an 84% critic and 85% audience scores.
Justin Chang for the Los Angeles...
- 1/4/2024
- by Kasey Moore
- Whats-on-Netflix
One of Hollywood’s most venerated auteurs has a new movie out this weekend. Will awards season pay attention? That’s the question facing most of these films, which tackle tough topics like Alzheimer’s, the stock market, and gay twincest.
The contender to watch this week: “The Killer”
David Fincher‘s latest has divided critics, with The New York Times‘ Manohla Dargis calling it “boring” and NPR’s Justin Chang declaring it “perfectly paced.” But if you think about it, a lot of Fincher’s work has proved at least mildly polarizing. He often overcomes those divides by the time Oscar nominations are announced, yet “The Killer” might be too cold and grim even for a Fincher flick. Michael Fassbender, at his most effortlessly slick, plays a nameless hitman suffering the consequences of a rare botched job. Fassbender’s fine-tuned performance is complemented by deft editing and another banger...
The contender to watch this week: “The Killer”
David Fincher‘s latest has divided critics, with The New York Times‘ Manohla Dargis calling it “boring” and NPR’s Justin Chang declaring it “perfectly paced.” But if you think about it, a lot of Fincher’s work has proved at least mildly polarizing. He often overcomes those divides by the time Oscar nominations are announced, yet “The Killer” might be too cold and grim even for a Fincher flick. Michael Fassbender, at his most effortlessly slick, plays a nameless hitman suffering the consequences of a rare botched job. Fassbender’s fine-tuned performance is complemented by deft editing and another banger...
- 11/11/2023
- by Matthew Jacobs
- Gold Derby
Spike Lee has offered his thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” calling it a “great film” but adding that he wishes it showed “what happened to the Japanese people.”
“[Nolan] is a massive filmmaker… and this is not a criticism. It’s a comment,” the filmmaker said, speaking with the Washington Post. “If [‘Oppenheimer’] is three hours, I would like to add some more minutes about what happened to the Japanese people. People got vaporized. Many years later, people are radioactive. It’s not like he didn’t have power. He tells studios what to do. I would have loved to have the end of the film maybe show what it did, dropping those two nuclear bombs on Japan.”
Universal Pictures, the studio behind “Oppenheimer,” did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Nolan’s film centers on the life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led...
“[Nolan] is a massive filmmaker… and this is not a criticism. It’s a comment,” the filmmaker said, speaking with the Washington Post. “If [‘Oppenheimer’] is three hours, I would like to add some more minutes about what happened to the Japanese people. People got vaporized. Many years later, people are radioactive. It’s not like he didn’t have power. He tells studios what to do. I would have loved to have the end of the film maybe show what it did, dropping those two nuclear bombs on Japan.”
Universal Pictures, the studio behind “Oppenheimer,” did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Nolan’s film centers on the life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led...
- 10/6/2023
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
“The Killer” is setting a new target: the New York Film Festival.
IndieWire can confirm that David Fincher’s latest film is a surprise addition to the Spotlight Selection at NYFF 2023. “The Killer” will screen October 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Netflix-owned Paris Theater and October 15 at 8:45 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alexis Nolent Aka Matz, the film’s logline reads: “After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.”
Michael Fassbender leads the film as the titular assassin who has a psychological crisis. Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, and Sophie Charlotte also star. Ceán Chaffin produces.
“Se7en” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker adapted the graphic novel which was originally published in the French language by Editions Casterman. Luc Jacamon illustrated.
IndieWire can confirm that David Fincher’s latest film is a surprise addition to the Spotlight Selection at NYFF 2023. “The Killer” will screen October 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Netflix-owned Paris Theater and October 15 at 8:45 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alexis Nolent Aka Matz, the film’s logline reads: “After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.”
Michael Fassbender leads the film as the titular assassin who has a psychological crisis. Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, and Sophie Charlotte also star. Ceán Chaffin produces.
“Se7en” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker adapted the graphic novel which was originally published in the French language by Editions Casterman. Luc Jacamon illustrated.
- 9/26/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
In the third act of Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb sits in a darkened hall and watches a slide show of what his gadget hath wrought at ground zero. From offscreen space, the lecturer clinically describes what we in the audience are spared from looking at.
The decision by director Christopher Nolan not to show the Japanese victims that should be in Oppenheimer’s field of vision has been both roundly criticized (Brandon Shimoda, curator of the Hiroshima Library, called it a “demoralizing” absence that “makes unreal the experience of Asian people”) and stoutly defended (in The Los Angeles Times, film critic Justin Chang responded, “omission is not erasure”).
Whatever your take, Nolan’s political/aesthetic choice presumes viewers are unspooling the pictures in their own mind. Compared to the newsreel record of the Holocaust, the visual imprint of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has not been...
The decision by director Christopher Nolan not to show the Japanese victims that should be in Oppenheimer’s field of vision has been both roundly criticized (Brandon Shimoda, curator of the Hiroshima Library, called it a “demoralizing” absence that “makes unreal the experience of Asian people”) and stoutly defended (in The Los Angeles Times, film critic Justin Chang responded, “omission is not erasure”).
Whatever your take, Nolan’s political/aesthetic choice presumes viewers are unspooling the pictures in their own mind. Compared to the newsreel record of the Holocaust, the visual imprint of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has not been...
- 9/12/2023
- by Thomas Doherty
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Garth Davis’s science-fiction sci-fi drama Foe, directed by Garth Davis (Lion) and starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.
The film, which Amazon will release this fall, is one of the Spotlight selections just announced by festival presenter Film at Lincoln Center.
Also making its world premiere in the Spotlight section is Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s A24-produced Showtime series The Curse, which stars Emma Stone. The North American premiere of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro was announced on Wednesday as a Spotlight Gala.
The festival’s 61st edition will kick off September 29 and run through October 15, with screenings planned in all five boroughs of New York City.
Other notable Spotlight entries include The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in a decade; a late-night showing of Harmony Korine’s Aggro DR1FT, shot entirely in infrared,...
The film, which Amazon will release this fall, is one of the Spotlight selections just announced by festival presenter Film at Lincoln Center.
Also making its world premiere in the Spotlight section is Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s A24-produced Showtime series The Curse, which stars Emma Stone. The North American premiere of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro was announced on Wednesday as a Spotlight Gala.
The festival’s 61st edition will kick off September 29 and run through October 15, with screenings planned in all five boroughs of New York City.
Other notable Spotlight entries include The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in a decade; a late-night showing of Harmony Korine’s Aggro DR1FT, shot entirely in infrared,...
- 8/17/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Maestro, the Leonard Bernstein biopic starring and directed by Bradley Cooper, will have the Spotlight Gala slot at this fall’s 61st New York Film Festival.
The Netflix film’s North American premiere on October 2 will come a few weeks after its world premiere in Venice. Netflix and New York have had an active relationship in recent years, with recent editions of the festival including films like The Irishman, Marriage Story, White Noise, The Power of the Dog and Roma occupying tentpole slots.
Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall, which reopened last year after a $550 million renovation, will host the premiere. The venue is home to the New York Philharmonic, of which Bernstein was the longtime conductor.
Maestro is Cooper’s directorial follow-up to A Star Is Born. Per the official logline, “Coasting on the boundless energy of its subject’s runaway genius, Maestro transports the viewer back to a vividly re-created postwar New York,...
The Netflix film’s North American premiere on October 2 will come a few weeks after its world premiere in Venice. Netflix and New York have had an active relationship in recent years, with recent editions of the festival including films like The Irishman, Marriage Story, White Noise, The Power of the Dog and Roma occupying tentpole slots.
Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall, which reopened last year after a $550 million renovation, will host the premiere. The venue is home to the New York Philharmonic, of which Bernstein was the longtime conductor.
Maestro is Cooper’s directorial follow-up to A Star Is Born. Per the official logline, “Coasting on the boundless energy of its subject’s runaway genius, Maestro transports the viewer back to a vividly re-created postwar New York,...
- 8/16/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” will be in the Spotlight of this year’s New York Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center confirmed to IndieWire that “Maestro” will be part of the Spotlight Gala at NYFF61, with the film making its North American debut with the first film premiere ever held at David Geffen Hall. The venue is usually dedicated just to concert events.
“The New York Film Festival is proud to present the North American debut of ‘Maestro,’ Bradley Cooper’s tour de force film about the life of renowned conductor, composer, and musician Leonard Bernstein,” Lesli Klainberg, President, Film at Lincoln Center, said in an official statement.
“Maestro” marks Cooper’s directorial follow-up to “A Star Is Born” and focuses on the public and private lives of legendary musician Bernstein, especially his marriage to Felicia (Carey Mulligan). Per the official synopsis, “Maestro” is a “tender, often intensely emotional film...
Film at Lincoln Center confirmed to IndieWire that “Maestro” will be part of the Spotlight Gala at NYFF61, with the film making its North American debut with the first film premiere ever held at David Geffen Hall. The venue is usually dedicated just to concert events.
“The New York Film Festival is proud to present the North American debut of ‘Maestro,’ Bradley Cooper’s tour de force film about the life of renowned conductor, composer, and musician Leonard Bernstein,” Lesli Klainberg, President, Film at Lincoln Center, said in an official statement.
“Maestro” marks Cooper’s directorial follow-up to “A Star Is Born” and focuses on the public and private lives of legendary musician Bernstein, especially his marriage to Felicia (Carey Mulligan). Per the official synopsis, “Maestro” is a “tender, often intensely emotional film...
- 8/16/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Viola Davis shines in Ben Affleck‘s “Air,” which tells the true story of how Nike signed Michael Jordan and made the Air Jordan shoe. Matt Damon portrays Nike marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro who negotiates a deal with Jordan’s mother. As Deloris Jordan, Davis deliver a powerful performance.
The actress imbues quiet strength, a sense of duty and honor, and a fierce motherly love into the stony exterior of an ambitious woman who knows her son’s worth and loves her family. It’s an enjoyable performance and it helps elevate the film from the average depths it likely would have sunken to without her. And critics agree.
Peter Travers (ABC News) explained: “Jordan himself insisted that only one actress could play his mom — Egot winner Viola Davis. Smart choice since the triumphant Davis is a primal force who powers the role of Deloris by nailing every nuance with maternal fire and feeling.
The actress imbues quiet strength, a sense of duty and honor, and a fierce motherly love into the stony exterior of an ambitious woman who knows her son’s worth and loves her family. It’s an enjoyable performance and it helps elevate the film from the average depths it likely would have sunken to without her. And critics agree.
Peter Travers (ABC News) explained: “Jordan himself insisted that only one actress could play his mom — Egot winner Viola Davis. Smart choice since the triumphant Davis is a primal force who powers the role of Deloris by nailing every nuance with maternal fire and feeling.
- 8/11/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Film at Lincoln Center has set the 32 features from 18 countries making up the Main Slate of the New York Film Festival, from Cannes prize-winners Anatomy Of A Fall by Justine Triet (Palme d’Or) and Zone Of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (Grand Prix), to the latest by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Hong Sangsoo, Radu Jude, Yorgos Lanthimos and Alice Rohrwacher.
Wenders’ Perfect Days saw a Best Actor for Kōji Yakusho in Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses a Best Actress for Merve Dizdar. Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves received the Grand Jury Prize. Hailing from Berlin, Angela Schanelec’s Music, Silver Bear winner for Best Screenplay.
The lineup includes films from Lisandro Alonso, Marco Bellocchio, Bertrand Bonello, Catherine Breillat, Bas Devos, Víctor Erice, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Martín Rejtman. Appearing in the Main Slate for the first time: Annie Baker, Devos, Felipe Gálvez, Glazer, Andrew Haigh,...
Wenders’ Perfect Days saw a Best Actor for Kōji Yakusho in Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses a Best Actress for Merve Dizdar. Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves received the Grand Jury Prize. Hailing from Berlin, Angela Schanelec’s Music, Silver Bear winner for Best Screenplay.
The lineup includes films from Lisandro Alonso, Marco Bellocchio, Bertrand Bonello, Catherine Breillat, Bas Devos, Víctor Erice, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Martín Rejtman. Appearing in the Main Slate for the first time: Annie Baker, Devos, Felipe Gálvez, Glazer, Andrew Haigh,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 New York Film Festival Main Slate lineup has officially been revealed.
Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, this year’s NYFF Main Slate boasts the latest films from Wim Wenders, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Jonathan Glazer. As previously announced, the festival will open September 29 with Todd Haynes’ “May December,” followed by Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” as the Centerpiece screening. The festival will conclude with Closing Night selection “Ferrari” by Michael Mann, debuting October 15.
The 61st NYFF includes Cannes winners “The Zone of Interest,” helmed by Glazer, “Anatomy of a Fall” directed by Justine Triet, and Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” as well as Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses” and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves.” Berlinale Silver Bear winner “Music” will also screen.
“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history,...
Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, this year’s NYFF Main Slate boasts the latest films from Wim Wenders, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Jonathan Glazer. As previously announced, the festival will open September 29 with Todd Haynes’ “May December,” followed by Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” as the Centerpiece screening. The festival will conclude with Closing Night selection “Ferrari” by Michael Mann, debuting October 15.
The 61st NYFF includes Cannes winners “The Zone of Interest,” helmed by Glazer, “Anatomy of a Fall” directed by Justine Triet, and Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” as well as Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses” and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves.” Berlinale Silver Bear winner “Music” will also screen.
“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Start your engines, film fans, as Film at Lincoln Center has today announced that Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” will close out this year’s New York Film Festival.
The Enzo Ferrari biopic starring Adam Driver in the titular role will celebrate its North American premiere on October 13 at Alice Tully Hall, with this year’s NYFF running from September 29 through October 15. The film is already set for its world premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival, and Neon will release it in theaters on December 25.
Per the festival’s official release, “Mann brings his astonishing command of technique and storytelling to bear on this emotional, elegantly crafted dramatization of the life of the legendary race car manufacturer and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari at a professional and personal fulcrum. It’s 1957, and the marriage of Enzo and Laura has begun to irrevocably fracture as a result of his philandering and the...
The Enzo Ferrari biopic starring Adam Driver in the titular role will celebrate its North American premiere on October 13 at Alice Tully Hall, with this year’s NYFF running from September 29 through October 15. The film is already set for its world premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival, and Neon will release it in theaters on December 25.
Per the festival’s official release, “Mann brings his astonishing command of technique and storytelling to bear on this emotional, elegantly crafted dramatization of the life of the legendary race car manufacturer and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari at a professional and personal fulcrum. It’s 1957, and the marriage of Enzo and Laura has begun to irrevocably fracture as a result of his philandering and the...
- 7/27/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Robert Downey Jr. is a name everyone knows. His charismatic persona and ageless style has occupied the pop culture zeitgeist for the majority of the 21st century. Having topped Forbes’ list of Highest Paid Actors from 2012-2015 and winning a whopping seven People’s Choice Awards in the 2010s alone, he’s arguably the most popular actor of the 21st century. This is largely due to his portrayal of Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The box office success of his first film with Marvel, 2009’s “Iron Man,” marked the start of the most financially successful and iconic franchise in the history of modern cinema. Downey Jr. starred in 9 MCU films as Iron Man and in the process raked up just shy of $350 million in salary.
His final film as Stark, “Avengers: Endgame,” marked the end of a groundbreaking era for Hollywood. The film...
His final film as Stark, “Avengers: Endgame,” marked the end of a groundbreaking era for Hollywood. The film...
- 7/24/2023
- by Nick Bisa
- Gold Derby
Todd Haynes’ new film “May December” will open the 61st New York Film Festival on Sept. 29, Film at Lincoln Center announced Tuesday. The opening will mark the film’s North American debut. The director and cast, which includes Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton, will attend the screening.
“May December” had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it was warmly received and acquired by Netflix. Written by first-time screenwriter Samy Burch, the dark comedy is Haynes’ first narrative film since 2019’s “Dark Waters.” It stars Portman as Elizabeth, a TV actor who travels to Savannah to study Gracie (Moore), whom she will portray onscreen and who, along with her significantly younger husband Joe (Melton), was once a target for tabloids. Elizabeth attempts to immerse herself in their lives to fully understand what made them such irresistible tabloid fodder. According to the press release, “As...
“May December” had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it was warmly received and acquired by Netflix. Written by first-time screenwriter Samy Burch, the dark comedy is Haynes’ first narrative film since 2019’s “Dark Waters.” It stars Portman as Elizabeth, a TV actor who travels to Savannah to study Gracie (Moore), whom she will portray onscreen and who, along with her significantly younger husband Joe (Melton), was once a target for tabloids. Elizabeth attempts to immerse herself in their lives to fully understand what made them such irresistible tabloid fodder. According to the press release, “As...
- 7/11/2023
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
It’s the middle of July, and cinephiles are already looking to September for “May December.”
The New York Film Festival has announced its 2023 Opening Night film: Todd Haynes’ highly anticipated “May December,” starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. The film premiered earlier this year at Cannes and will make its New York City premiere September 29 to usher in the 61st New York Film Festival (NYFF).
Haynes’ 10th feature film and fifth with lead actress Moore, “May December” centers on a “Persona”-esque dynamic between Oscar winners Moore and Portman. Per the official synopsis, Elizabeth (Portman), a popular television star, has arrived in a tight-knit island community in Savannah. Here, she will be doing intimate research for a new part, ingratiating herself into the lives of Gracie (Moore), whom she’ll be playing onscreen, and her much younger husband, Joe (Charles Melton), to better understand the psychology and circumstances that...
The New York Film Festival has announced its 2023 Opening Night film: Todd Haynes’ highly anticipated “May December,” starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. The film premiered earlier this year at Cannes and will make its New York City premiere September 29 to usher in the 61st New York Film Festival (NYFF).
Haynes’ 10th feature film and fifth with lead actress Moore, “May December” centers on a “Persona”-esque dynamic between Oscar winners Moore and Portman. Per the official synopsis, Elizabeth (Portman), a popular television star, has arrived in a tight-knit island community in Savannah. Here, she will be doing intimate research for a new part, ingratiating herself into the lives of Gracie (Moore), whom she’ll be playing onscreen, and her much younger husband, Joe (Charles Melton), to better understand the psychology and circumstances that...
- 7/11/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Todd Haynes’ May December will open the New York Film Festival on September 29, organizers said today.
The film had its world premiere in Cannes and its North American rights were acquired by Netflix for $11 million after an all-night bidding war. New York will host the film’s North American premiere as the kickoff to its 61st edition. Haynes and members of the cast headed by Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore are expected to be in attendance.
While the New York fest has sometimes opened with major world premieres like The Irishman in 2019, its DNA as a “festival of festivals” based in a media-rich city has led it to program plenty of non-premiere openers. The 2022 fest opened with White Noise, which had world-premiered in Venice. Even after an opening night featuring an established festival title, this year’s NYFF is likely feature quite a few world premieres during the course of its 17-day run.
The film had its world premiere in Cannes and its North American rights were acquired by Netflix for $11 million after an all-night bidding war. New York will host the film’s North American premiere as the kickoff to its 61st edition. Haynes and members of the cast headed by Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore are expected to be in attendance.
While the New York fest has sometimes opened with major world premieres like The Irishman in 2019, its DNA as a “festival of festivals” based in a media-rich city has led it to program plenty of non-premiere openers. The 2022 fest opened with White Noise, which had world-premiered in Venice. Even after an opening night featuring an established festival title, this year’s NYFF is likely feature quite a few world premieres during the course of its 17-day run.
- 7/11/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The “Mission: Impossible” franchise is one of the most successful in film history, raking in a staggering $3.5 million and counting since the debut of the first film in 1996.
Understandably, hopes are high for the seventh entry in the Tom Cruise-starring franchise when “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” debuts in theatres next week.
The reviews are coming in, and film critics are overwhelmingly positive about the new film, which has already racked up a Rotten Tomatoes score of an incredible 98 per cent.
Read More: Tom Cruise Reflects On His ‘Mission: Impossible’ Journey Over The Years: ‘It’s Quite Extraordinary’
Here’s a sampling of what some of the world’s top critics are saying.
“‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ is just incredibly fun. It feels half its length and contains enough memorable action sequences for some entire franchises,” wrote Brian Tallerico for RogerEbert.com.
“If you...
Understandably, hopes are high for the seventh entry in the Tom Cruise-starring franchise when “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” debuts in theatres next week.
The reviews are coming in, and film critics are overwhelmingly positive about the new film, which has already racked up a Rotten Tomatoes score of an incredible 98 per cent.
Read More: Tom Cruise Reflects On His ‘Mission: Impossible’ Journey Over The Years: ‘It’s Quite Extraordinary’
Here’s a sampling of what some of the world’s top critics are saying.
“‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ is just incredibly fun. It feels half its length and contains enough memorable action sequences for some entire franchises,” wrote Brian Tallerico for RogerEbert.com.
“If you...
- 7/5/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
A week away from the release of Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” critics have praised the new film as yet another triumph for its leading man, Tom Cruise, and one of if not the best film of the summer.
While some critics noted that the film doesn’t quite reach the heights of its 2018 predecessor “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” or Cruise’s 2022 Best Picture Oscar nominated “Top Gun: Maverick,” reviews agree it has plenty of the wild and tense set pieces that “Mission” fans have come to expect, including a comedic car chase through the streets of Rome, a nail-biting train chase and a much-marketed shot of Cruise riding a motorcycle off a cliff.
“It is Cruise himself that unlocks this extraordinary and, in the end, surprisingly poignant franchise start to finish, the key to it all even when he’s not dangling from a Dubai...
While some critics noted that the film doesn’t quite reach the heights of its 2018 predecessor “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” or Cruise’s 2022 Best Picture Oscar nominated “Top Gun: Maverick,” reviews agree it has plenty of the wild and tense set pieces that “Mission” fans have come to expect, including a comedic car chase through the streets of Rome, a nail-biting train chase and a much-marketed shot of Cruise riding a motorcycle off a cliff.
“It is Cruise himself that unlocks this extraordinary and, in the end, surprisingly poignant franchise start to finish, the key to it all even when he’s not dangling from a Dubai...
- 7/5/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
His profile having risen steadily over the previous ten years with “Orange Is the New Black,” “The Umbrella Academy,” “Carol,” “The Big Short,” “First Cow” and recently “Showing Up,” John Magaro is on the verge of a career break and his very first Oscar nomination for playing an empathic husband forced to navigate a love triangle in Celine Song’s universally praised debut feature, “Past Lives.” Critics have been highlighting him ever since the A24 release premiered to rapturous reviews at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
“Past Lives” delicately unfolds in the spaces and silences between Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), childhood friends separated by the former’s immigration to America. Decades later, they reconverge in New York City, where Nora resides with her husband, Arthur (Magaro). Thoughtful and self-aware, he pokes fun at the stock “evil white American husband” role in which the situation places him. Arthur...
“Past Lives” delicately unfolds in the spaces and silences between Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), childhood friends separated by the former’s immigration to America. Decades later, they reconverge in New York City, where Nora resides with her husband, Arthur (Magaro). Thoughtful and self-aware, he pokes fun at the stock “evil white American husband” role in which the situation places him. Arthur...
- 6/14/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
Alice Rohrwacher’s ’La Chimera’ and Ken Loach’s ’The Old Oak’ were the final two titles to land on the grid.
Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves has topped Screen’s 2023 Cannes jury grid with an average score of 3.2, after the final two titles, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera and Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, landed with 2.9 and 2.1, respectively.
See the final jury grid below.
Rohrwacher’s La Chimera saw four critics give the Italian drama a four (excellent) while Die Zeit’s Katja Nicomedus and Postif’s Michel Ciment gave it one (poor). The rest of the...
Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves has topped Screen’s 2023 Cannes jury grid with an average score of 3.2, after the final two titles, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera and Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, landed with 2.9 and 2.1, respectively.
See the final jury grid below.
Rohrwacher’s La Chimera saw four critics give the Italian drama a four (excellent) while Die Zeit’s Katja Nicomedus and Postif’s Michel Ciment gave it one (poor). The rest of the...
- 5/27/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
‘Asteroid City’ scored 2.2 while ‘Kidnapped’ received 2.5.
Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ and Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Kidnapped’ land in the middle of Cannes 2023 jury grid, scoring 2.2 and 2.5 respectively.
Anderson’s third run for the Palme d’Or scored five three stars (good) and four two stars (average) while LA Times’ Justin Chang, Postif’s Michel Ciment and Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacherek gave it one star (poor).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Featuring an A-list ensemble cast including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie, Asteroid City is set in a 1950’s US desert town...
Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ and Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Kidnapped’ land in the middle of Cannes 2023 jury grid, scoring 2.2 and 2.5 respectively.
Anderson’s third run for the Palme d’Or scored five three stars (good) and four two stars (average) while LA Times’ Justin Chang, Postif’s Michel Ciment and Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacherek gave it one star (poor).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Featuring an A-list ensemble cast including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie, Asteroid City is set in a 1950’s US desert town...
- 5/24/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Whether you lined up outside the Palais de Festivals hours in advance or deliriously refreshed the web for minute-to-minute updates from halfway around the world, the long-awaited unveiling of Martin Scorsese’s “The Killers of the Flower Moon” at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival felt like a historic cinematic event.
Based on the best-selling nonfiction book of the same name by “The Lost City of Z” author David Grann, the film is set on the Osage reservation in 1920s Oklahoma – the decade of the Tulsa massacre. Recently discovered oil deposits enrich the settlement, making the Osage the wealthiest people in the world per capita, but “many, so many hungry wolves” soon follow. Chief amongst them are corrupt cattleman William Hale (Robert De Niro) and his nephew, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), the latter of whom infiltrates the community by marrying a prominent local (Lily Gladstone). Together, the uncle-nephew duo plots a violent...
Based on the best-selling nonfiction book of the same name by “The Lost City of Z” author David Grann, the film is set on the Osage reservation in 1920s Oklahoma – the decade of the Tulsa massacre. Recently discovered oil deposits enrich the settlement, making the Osage the wealthiest people in the world per capita, but “many, so many hungry wolves” soon follow. Chief amongst them are corrupt cattleman William Hale (Robert De Niro) and his nephew, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), the latter of whom infiltrates the community by marrying a prominent local (Lily Gladstone). Together, the uncle-nephew duo plots a violent...
- 5/23/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ scored a 3 average while ‘Firebrand’ also landed on the grid on 1.8
Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall has joined May December in first place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, after receiving an average score of 3 from the critics.
The French filmmaker’s latest Cannes entry received four stars from LA Times’ Justin Chang; The Telegraph’s Tim Robey and Le Monde’s Clarisse Fabre. This was followed by six threes and three twos, the latter of which came from Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee; Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus andTime Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall has joined May December in first place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, after receiving an average score of 3 from the critics.
The French filmmaker’s latest Cannes entry received four stars from LA Times’ Justin Chang; The Telegraph’s Tim Robey and Le Monde’s Clarisse Fabre. This was followed by six threes and three twos, the latter of which came from Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee; Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus andTime Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
- 5/22/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The first full day of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival was marred by a festival mishap that resulted in dozens — perhaps even hundreds — of festivalgoers being turned away from a screening for which they possessed tickets, all after they had waited for more than an hour in pouring rain.
Ticketholders for the 3 p.m. event at the 1,068-seat Théâtre Claude Debussy — the world premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s short film Strange Way of Life, followed by a “rendez-vous” with the filmmaker — were instructed to arrive by 2:25 p.m. But around 3:30 p.m., security officials notified the considerable number of people who were still waiting in line — including Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Janet Yang and two Hollywood Reporter journalists — that the theater was at capacity and they needed to leave.
Such a situation should not have been possible, given...
Ticketholders for the 3 p.m. event at the 1,068-seat Théâtre Claude Debussy — the world premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s short film Strange Way of Life, followed by a “rendez-vous” with the filmmaker — were instructed to arrive by 2:25 p.m. But around 3:30 p.m., security officials notified the considerable number of people who were still waiting in line — including Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Janet Yang and two Hollywood Reporter journalists — that the theater was at capacity and they needed to leave.
Such a situation should not have been possible, given...
- 5/17/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Critics this year include LA Times’ Justin Chang, Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, and Positif’s Michel Ciment.
Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2023 Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27).
Joining Screen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 21 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.
The results will be published in Screen’s Cannes daily magazines and for the first time the grid will also be updated live on screendaily.com.
Egyptian critic Ahmed Shawky joins the Screen jury critics...
Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2023 Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27).
Joining Screen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 21 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.
The results will be published in Screen’s Cannes daily magazines and for the first time the grid will also be updated live on screendaily.com.
Egyptian critic Ahmed Shawky joins the Screen jury critics...
- 5/16/2023
- by ¬Ella Gauci
- ScreenDaily
Two very different bears — one going berserk on drugs and another a mere superstition — hit streaming this week. It’s a slow month for digital premieres, but the best of this week’s offerings span a variety of moods and genres. You’ll also find a pair of documentaries about beloved cultural figures worth watching.
The contender to watch this week: “Cocaine Bear“
Elizabeth Banks paraded her movie’s eponymous terrorizer onto this year’s Oscar stage, so who’s to say she couldn’t do it again in 2024? Maybe “Cocaine Bear” can ride its box-office success to a Best Visual Effects nomination. It worked for “The Revenant,” but that had Leo and a huge awards-friendly pedigree. Either way, you can watch the likes of Keri Russell and Alden Ehrenreich stave off this hopped-up villain on Peacock.
Other contenders:
“No Bears”: New Yorker critic Richard Brody and Los Angeles...
The contender to watch this week: “Cocaine Bear“
Elizabeth Banks paraded her movie’s eponymous terrorizer onto this year’s Oscar stage, so who’s to say she couldn’t do it again in 2024? Maybe “Cocaine Bear” can ride its box-office success to a Best Visual Effects nomination. It worked for “The Revenant,” but that had Leo and a huge awards-friendly pedigree. Either way, you can watch the likes of Keri Russell and Alden Ehrenreich stave off this hopped-up villain on Peacock.
Other contenders:
“No Bears”: New Yorker critic Richard Brody and Los Angeles...
- 4/15/2023
- by Matthew Jacobs
- Gold Derby
The rules for Academy Award consideration are byzantine and difficult to understand. Oscar eligible films have to be a certain length (a "feature" is anything over 40 minutes), have to have a certain type of theatrical run, and have to be advertised in a certain way, presumably in industry trade papers like Variety. A film can play at a festival and still be eligible for Oscar consideration, but the festival run itself does not qualify as a theatrical release. What counts as an animated film has also become nebulous, as a partially animated film like "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" was nominated for Best Animated Feature, while an even more animated film like "Avatar: The Way of Water" was not.
The rules for what qualifies as an "International Feature" are even more convoluted. The Academy does not scour the whole Earth looking for great cinema, but accept submissions -- one...
The rules for what qualifies as an "International Feature" are even more convoluted. The Academy does not scour the whole Earth looking for great cinema, but accept submissions -- one...
- 1/24/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The 2023 New York Film Festival (NYFF) has confirmed its dates for the fall festival.
Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) announced that the 61st annual NYFF will take place from September 29 through October 15, 2023. Short film submissions may be accepted starting February 27 via FilmFreeway, with the deadline set for May 5.
This year’s New York Film Festival is run by Dennis Lim, artistic director, and Matt Bolish, the newly promoted managing director. Bolish’s role marks a new position for the festival. Bolish has been a member of the Flc staff since 2011 and is currently the organization’s vice president of operations, in addition to serving as NYFF producer since 2016.
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang was also appointed to the five-member NYFF Main Slate Selection Committee.
“Justin’s love and knowledge of cinema are evident in everything he writes, and I’m excited for him to bring his curiosity, generosity,...
Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) announced that the 61st annual NYFF will take place from September 29 through October 15, 2023. Short film submissions may be accepted starting February 27 via FilmFreeway, with the deadline set for May 5.
This year’s New York Film Festival is run by Dennis Lim, artistic director, and Matt Bolish, the newly promoted managing director. Bolish’s role marks a new position for the festival. Bolish has been a member of the Flc staff since 2011 and is currently the organization’s vice president of operations, in addition to serving as NYFF producer since 2016.
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang was also appointed to the five-member NYFF Main Slate Selection Committee.
“Justin’s love and knowledge of cinema are evident in everything he writes, and I’m excited for him to bring his curiosity, generosity,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Matt Bolish, who has been a staff member of Film at Lincoln Center since 2011, has been promoted to the newly created position of managing director of the New York Film Festival.
In his new post, Bolish will team with artistic director Dennis Lim, who oversees programming and curation, to produce the event. The move addresses a staffing void left by Eugene Hernandez, who departed last year as NYFF executive director after a 12-year run at Flc to become director of the Sundance Film Festival.
Along with the executive news, Flc said the 61st edition of the festival will be held from September 29 to October 15.
Bolish had been VP of operations at Flc, the festival’s presenting organization, and also had served as producer of NYFF since 2016.
In addition to Bolish’s new role, film critic Justin Chang of the LA Times and NPR’s Fresh Air has been added to...
In his new post, Bolish will team with artistic director Dennis Lim, who oversees programming and curation, to produce the event. The move addresses a staffing void left by Eugene Hernandez, who departed last year as NYFF executive director after a 12-year run at Flc to become director of the Sundance Film Festival.
Along with the executive news, Flc said the 61st edition of the festival will be held from September 29 to October 15.
Bolish had been VP of operations at Flc, the festival’s presenting organization, and also had served as producer of NYFF since 2016.
In addition to Bolish’s new role, film critic Justin Chang of the LA Times and NPR’s Fresh Air has been added to...
- 1/18/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022).In a year that some had feared would mean the end of the theatrical experience altogether and the triumph of streaming, there were moments in 2022 when things looked almost anachronistic in their normalcy. Festivals returned to analog, in-person editions; people flocked back to cinemas as a new wave of blockbusters hit the screens; and face masks all but disappeared. It was “the summer of almost no flops,” Chris Lee reports at Vulture, noting that the success was not limited to films à la Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick or Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but non-franchise studio projects too, like Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, or Jordan Peele’s Nope. Still, this alleged cinematic resurgence requires careful spelling. If films like Top Gun could carve their outsize market share, it...
- 1/18/2023
- MUBI
Filmmakers and critics rarely spend time in the same spaces, which is probably good for the mental health of the former and the physical health of the latter. But on Saturday night, they peacefully — even joyously — coexisted in a ballroom at the Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles for the 48th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.
Things got off to a convivial start with a reel of clips highlighting each of Lafca’s 2022 honorees, which were announced last December. People chuckled at a scene of best actress winner Cate Blanchett melting down in Tár, aww-ed at a clip from best film not in the English language winner Eo and clapped along to the “Naatu Naatu” musical number from Rrr, the winner of best music/score.
Acceptance speeches were uniformly compact and generous. M.M. Keeravani, Rrr’s composer and a writer of “Naatu Naatu,” explained how impacted he had been by the score of Jaws,...
Things got off to a convivial start with a reel of clips highlighting each of Lafca’s 2022 honorees, which were announced last December. People chuckled at a scene of best actress winner Cate Blanchett melting down in Tár, aww-ed at a clip from best film not in the English language winner Eo and clapped along to the “Naatu Naatu” musical number from Rrr, the winner of best music/score.
Acceptance speeches were uniformly compact and generous. M.M. Keeravani, Rrr’s composer and a writer of “Naatu Naatu,” explained how impacted he had been by the score of Jaws,...
- 1/15/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When MGM’s Singin’ in the Rain, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s musical valentine to Hollywood’s silent film era as it transitioned into the world of talkies, opened in the spring of 1952, it instantly won over moviegoers. Writing in The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther enthused, “Compounded generously of music, dance, color spectacle and a riotous abundance of Gene Kelly, Jean Hagen and Donald O’Connor on the screen, all elements in this rainbow program are carefully contrived and guaranteed to lift the dolors of winter and put you in a buttercup mood.” The movie went on to become a box office hit, ranking as the 10th highest-grossing film of the year in North America. The Writers Guild awarded Betty Comden and Adolph Green its prize for best-written American musical. The Directors Guild nominated Kelly and Donen for outstanding direction. And the Golden Globe Awards nominated it as best comedy or musical.
- 1/10/2023
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Early viewers of “Avatar: The Way of Water” are just about unanimous in their emphatic praise of the James Cameron epic.
The film, which debuts in theaters this Friday, is already being lauded as one of the best films of the year and a vast improvement to its 2009 predecessor.
“Avatar: The Way of Water is miles better than the first,” said writer Eric Vespe in a tweet. “The ocean environment is incredible and Cameron clearly is wearing his environmentalist heart on his sleeve here. I connected to this one in a way I couldn’t with the original.”
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James Cameron Admits ‘Avatar 2’ Needs to Gross 2 Billion to ‘Break Even’
TheWrap’s William Bibbiani said the “dazzling” and “overwhelming” blockbuster has its uneven moments, but ultimately ties it all together in the third act.
“By the time it crests, whatever the film’s many other flaws may be,...
The film, which debuts in theaters this Friday, is already being lauded as one of the best films of the year and a vast improvement to its 2009 predecessor.
“Avatar: The Way of Water is miles better than the first,” said writer Eric Vespe in a tweet. “The ocean environment is incredible and Cameron clearly is wearing his environmentalist heart on his sleeve here. I connected to this one in a way I couldn’t with the original.”
Also Read:
James Cameron Admits ‘Avatar 2’ Needs to Gross 2 Billion to ‘Break Even’
TheWrap’s William Bibbiani said the “dazzling” and “overwhelming” blockbuster has its uneven moments, but ultimately ties it all together in the third act.
“By the time it crests, whatever the film’s many other flaws may be,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
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The review embargo for Antoine Fuqua’s much-talked about escaped slave drama Emancipation lifted Wednesday evening and early critics reaction to the Apple Original Films feature is decidedly mixed.
Critics praised Emancipation‘s cast, with Will Smith, the film’s controversy-stricken star, receiving plaudits along with co-stars Ben Foster and Charmaine Bingwa. There was also praise for the survival thriller setup of the film, with an appreciation for the different approach to the subject. But some critics took issue with the unrelenting brutality as well as the look of the film, with questions about Robert Richardson’s stylized cinematography as well as the sparse script.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lovia Gyarkye writes that Emancipation treats Peter’s escape and journey well, but the film is “hampered by a spare and spiritless screenplay.” Gyarkye feels that the current reality of a growing refusal to...
The review embargo for Antoine Fuqua’s much-talked about escaped slave drama Emancipation lifted Wednesday evening and early critics reaction to the Apple Original Films feature is decidedly mixed.
Critics praised Emancipation‘s cast, with Will Smith, the film’s controversy-stricken star, receiving plaudits along with co-stars Ben Foster and Charmaine Bingwa. There was also praise for the survival thriller setup of the film, with an appreciation for the different approach to the subject. But some critics took issue with the unrelenting brutality as well as the look of the film, with questions about Robert Richardson’s stylized cinematography as well as the sparse script.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lovia Gyarkye writes that Emancipation treats Peter’s escape and journey well, but the film is “hampered by a spare and spiritless screenplay.” Gyarkye feels that the current reality of a growing refusal to...
- 12/1/2022
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This interview with the cast of “The Woman King” first ran in the Guild & Critics Awards / Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
By any reasonable calculation, “The Woman King” was a risky movie to make. Set in 19th-century Africa, starring a huge cast of mainly Black women actors — many of them not widely known — it faced big questions about whether the movie would find its audience.
Incredibly, it did. Willed into existence by a team that included director Gina Prince-Bythewood and producers Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, Mario Bello and Cathy Schulman, the release from Sony’s TriStar Pictures has made more than 90 million at the global box office since its September release. Critics have also embraced the film (as have audiences: It has a 99 audience score on Rotten Tomatoes), with the L.A. Times’ Justin Chang identifying the movie’s hat trick of taking “an old-fashioned template to deliver...
By any reasonable calculation, “The Woman King” was a risky movie to make. Set in 19th-century Africa, starring a huge cast of mainly Black women actors — many of them not widely known — it faced big questions about whether the movie would find its audience.
Incredibly, it did. Willed into existence by a team that included director Gina Prince-Bythewood and producers Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, Mario Bello and Cathy Schulman, the release from Sony’s TriStar Pictures has made more than 90 million at the global box office since its September release. Critics have also embraced the film (as have audiences: It has a 99 audience score on Rotten Tomatoes), with the L.A. Times’ Justin Chang identifying the movie’s hat trick of taking “an old-fashioned template to deliver...
- 11/30/2022
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
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“Embarrassment,” offers Trent Reznor when asked for his take on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.
The Nine Inch Nails frontman and Oscar-winning composer (with longtime partner Atticus Ross) has a sizable 1.6 million following, even if he doesn’t tweet all that much. Nonetheless, he’s ready to say goodbye for good.
“I’m about to depart. We don’t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without him involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment. For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don’t feel good being there anymore.”
He’s not alone in weighing his future on the platform. Stars who have logged off for good in the days since Musk’s Oct. 28 acquisition of the company include Alex Winter, David Dastmalchian,...
“Embarrassment,” offers Trent Reznor when asked for his take on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.
The Nine Inch Nails frontman and Oscar-winning composer (with longtime partner Atticus Ross) has a sizable 1.6 million following, even if he doesn’t tweet all that much. Nonetheless, he’s ready to say goodbye for good.
“I’m about to depart. We don’t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without him involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment. For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don’t feel good being there anymore.”
He’s not alone in weighing his future on the platform. Stars who have logged off for good in the days since Musk’s Oct. 28 acquisition of the company include Alex Winter, David Dastmalchian,...
- 11/19/2022
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On November 18, A24 released “The Inspection” starring Jeremy Pope as Ellis French, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother (played by Gabriel Union) with few options for his future, who decides to join the Marines. The film is inspired by the life of writer-director Elegance Bratton, who experienced intense homophobia at boot camp and at home. The film currently has a 76 freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes due to generally favorable reviews.
See Jeremy Pope (‘The Inspection’): ‘You can be the hero of your own story when you take back the narrative’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
The film received three Gotham Awards nominations for Breakthrough Director (Bratton), Best Supporting Actress (Union) and Best Supporting Actor for Raul Castillo, who plays Rosales, a junior drill sergeant who takes an interest in Ellis. The film has been gaining Oscar buzz since premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Pope has nearly cracked the...
See Jeremy Pope (‘The Inspection’): ‘You can be the hero of your own story when you take back the narrative’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
The film received three Gotham Awards nominations for Breakthrough Director (Bratton), Best Supporting Actress (Union) and Best Supporting Actor for Raul Castillo, who plays Rosales, a junior drill sergeant who takes an interest in Ellis. The film has been gaining Oscar buzz since premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Pope has nearly cracked the...
- 11/18/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
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