New York Film Festival Review: Paul Schrader’s ‘First Reformed’
“The multi-hyphenate filmmaker’s latest seems to anticipate dissection: its formal austerity belies a haphazard, literary-minded indulgence.”
“The multi-hyphenate filmmaker’s latest seems to anticipate dissection: its formal austerity belies a haphazard, literary-minded indulgence.”
“‘Four Hands’ is sublime and arresting in its imagery.”
“‘Mon Mon Mon Monsters’ actually inspires and entertains while pointedly dealing with a subject that hits close to home for many.”
“Out of a fractured, tentative world, Kazik Radwanski created a strong and whole short film.”
“Dare I say it, but ‘Jeune Femme’ is as ripe for an American remake as any film I’ve seen on this year’s festival circuit.”
“Shot beautifully, with an imposing yet wholly appropriate classical soundtrack to match, ‘I Am Not a Witch’ is worth the watch.”
“Much like ‘Leviathan,’ the film is oppressively bleak.”
“Vivian Qu’s ‘Angels Wear White’ is another realist, slow cinema meditation on the social troubles in China.”
“‘Mudbound’ plays the game and begins with a white man, but, throughout the course of an epic tale, it arrives at a moving destination.”
“If time has the power to render every structure and memory as null, then here are the moments that define humanity; here are the moments that we hope to remember.”
“This kind of world recreation doesn’t come cheap, and it’s a delight to see a filmmaker of Haynes’ caliber given such a worthy budget.”
“‘Lean on Pete’ hits the mark emotionally and reveals itself to be a poised, moving film.”
“‘Madame Hyde’ crystallizes its views about the absurd limitations in trying to communicate the abstract gift of knowledge.”
“If ‘mother!’ lacks the refinement of a manifesto for a new breed of movie theater flick, it makes up for it in the audacity to be unique.”
“‘Zama’ is the kind of historical film that refuses to concede even the smallest positivity to the history in question.”
“Guillermo del Toro may very well be cinema’s reigning master of monster mythology.”
“Have they never heard of negative space?”
“The brooding ominousness Van Maele plays with throughout seems to run through many of this year’s European offerings.”
“As an adaptation of a great 20th century novel, ‘It’ completely misses the mark.”
“‘Downsizing’ thinks it has big ideas, but artistically and intellectually, it’s as small as its protagonists.”