Tag: New York Film Festival
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Tales of Obsession at the New York Film Festival
One of the biggest box-office hits of the year is a low-budget horror film called Obsession, in which a young man buys a novelty device that is said to grant wishes. When he asks for the girl of his dreams to fall in love with him, he unleashes a demonic devotion. Obsession is the theme…
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Sandra Hüller Shows Her Range at the New York Film Festival
Sandra Hüller is having a moment. An Oscar nominee for her riveting, multilingual performance in Anatomy of a Fall (Was her character guilty or innocent? We still don’t know), Hüller scored a big Hollywood success this past spring, starring opposite Ryan Gosling in the popular outer-space adventure Project Hail Mary. Currently, she’s appearing opposite Tom Cruise in Alejandro…
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The New York Film Festival Confronts a World in Turmoil
No shade on the many fiction films at this year’s New York Film Festival, but the most gripping entries of the 2026 edition are two documentaries that urgently address the current moment. The 2024 festival brought us My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow, a marathon 324-minute look into the lives of a group of…
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Catching Up with Cannes at the New York Film Festival
For those of us in NYC who don’t have the good fortune to travel the festival circuit (Cannes, Venice, Toronto, etc.), the New York Film Festival offers a welcome chance to catch up with many of the films that have been generating buzz from leading critics. The 64th New York Film Festival (Sept. 25-Oct. 12)…
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More Highlights of the 63rd New York Film Festival
The 63rd New York Film Festival concludes on Monday, October 13, 2025. I managed to see 31 features—some were disappointing, a few I actively hated, but the majority were well worth the trip from Brooklyn to Lincoln Center. Here are four favorites. The most delightful (yet very naughty) surprise was Pillion, just your average comedy-romance about…
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Movies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Screenings at the New York Film Festival have provided a welcome escape from each day’s appalling headlines. And counterintuitively, some of the best escapes have been films focusing on characters riddled with anxiety. Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, but it’s been gratifying to enter the lives of protagonists you’d never trade places with.…
