Silent Screen Diva Marion Davies’ Enjoyable Nonsense
Silent screen star Marion Davies makes these two restored films by directors George Hill and Sidney Franklin irresistibly delightful.
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‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’: Queer Acceptance at the Edge of Oblivion
Balancing its serious side with silliness and sincerity, queer-positive Everything Everywhere All At Once speaks to a communal determination to press forward, even when it seems the whole world is pressing back.
A Pseudo-Intellectual Defense of a Star Wars Prequel
Just as Camille Paglia praised George Lucas’ magnum opus, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, I too run the gauntlet of jeers and spitballs.
‘The Northman’ Is Operatic But Viciously Anti-Romantic
Robert Eggers’ witchy, weird, and pitilessly violent Viking revenge saga, The Northman, features operatic scope and magical imagery that will burn into your retinas.
Asian Mothers Hold Multitudes in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
Filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert on the many possibilities within Asian mothers as seen in their sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once.
‘The Batman’ Is Just Another Incel Fantasy of Entitlement
Matt Reeves’ meandering faux-profound take on Batman spends its over-long runtime telling women to shut up and do as they’re told or face the consequences.
The Eternal Rome in Mobster Show ‘Suburra: Blood on Rome’
Italian mobster series Suburra exploits its Roman setting, using carefully composed shots and symbolically charged locations to suggest that nothing has changed in Rome since antiquity.
Alonso Ruizpalacios ‘A Cop Movie’ Walks a Thin Genre Line
Alonso Ruizpalacios’ sort of documentary, ‘A Cop Movie’ (Una película de policías), takes on the challenge of presenting what real-life policing looks like.
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Wildly Rocks Multiple Worlds
In a world where everybody knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, universes are bound to go crazy, and that makes Spider-Man: No Way Home fantastic entertainment.
Marvel’s ‘Eternals’: Haven’t We Seen This Story Before?
The cast of Eternals may be the broodiest Marvel characters to date, but that’s about the only “new” thing about this film.
NYFF: Assault on Precinct 13’s Message Is Trite in Our Times
The ’70s were politically charged when Assault on Precinct 13 was released. Our perception of the film’s message is the only thing that has changed since.