New York Film Festival 2025: ‘No Other Choice:’ Satisfying Dark Comedy With Fab Lee Byung-hun
As dark comedies with a social commentary edge go, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is quite satisfying. It’s a clever, ...
As dark comedies with a social commentary edge go, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is quite satisfying. It’s a clever, ...
You can admire the ambition, style and scope of a film as well as the themes it is addressing, without ...
This year’s Cannes Palm d’Or winner and France’s International Feature Oscar entry, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, is ...
It’s no secret that Jodie Foster is one of America’s finest actors. She won two Best Actress Oscars, near back-to-back, ...
For theatre aficionados, Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is a rich cornucopia of backstage gossip and Easter egg name dropping galore—including ...
Much like the best films of Swedish master Ingmar Bergman, Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated gem, The ...
This year’s NYFF offers a plethora of queer stories plunging into areas of LGBTQ life that aren’t often explored, certainly ...
Oliver Laxe’s bold, brave, bleak cine-spectacle, Sirât, begins with a shot of giant speakers that soon begin blaring techno dance ...
German director Ulrich Köhler delivers a thought-provoking meta work where the film-within-the-film is just as compelling as the film. Gavagai ...
Adnan (Laith Khalifeh) is a curious gay art student seeking connection, whether it be friendship, lover or hook-up. And in ...
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