In Bradley Cooper's third outing as director, Will Arnett and Laura Dern portray a couple whose separation leads to an unpredictable midlife catharsis.
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New York Film Festival Review: ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ from Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch constructs three scenarios about family, all different, but all revealing isolation between adult children and their parents.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘The Mastermind’
An art thief heists unremarkable works, only to have cops mistakenly arrest him for protesting the Viet Nam War.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Miroirs No. 3’
Director Christian Petzold explores questions about spiritual consciousness, broken humanity, inner dislocation and the slow road to recovery after trauma.
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘Happyend’
Japanese writer-director Neo Sora's narrative feature film debut 'Happyend' confronts us about our political fears and seeming powerlessness in the face of looming environmental disasters.
Read More »Film Review: ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Explores Trans People Past and Present
'Orlando, my political Biography' is an intriguing film which uses Virginia Woolf's novel 'Orlando' to understand trans people past and present.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Fallen Leaves’
'Fallen Leaves' is Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's ironic, charming love story of working-class heroes rising above their circumstances to help each other.
Read More »Film Review: ‘The Taste of Things’ at the New York Film Festival
'The Taste of Things' is a mesmerizing visual pageant of the gastronomic exploits of a cook and a chef (Juliet Binoche and Benoît Magimel) in 19th-century France.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘About Dry Grasses’ at the New York Film Festival
'About Dry Grasses' at NYFF 2023 involves a teacher-pupil relationship that goes awry in a remote region of Turkey.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Zone of Interest’ at the New York Film Festival
'Zone of Interest' explores the horrific human truths behind the Holocaust in a novel way.
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