Kitty Green’s movies, “The Assistant” and now “The Royal Hotel,” address gender dynamics in familiar, but menacing, environments.
Category: Movies
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A Cannes Winner Asks: What if the Powerful Woman Isn’t Punished?
The French director Justine Triet’s movies explore the anxieties of women who work and play hard. Her latest, “Anatomy of a Fall,” won the Palme d’Or.
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‘The Persian Version’ Director Has Always Lived in the In-Between
In her new film, Maryam Keshavarz finds both gravity and levity in the struggle to reconcile her Iranian heritage and her life in the United States.
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‘Old Dads’ Review: Bill Burr Rails Against Modern Life as a Dad
A curmudgeon, starting fatherhood late, has lots to say about the world.
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Vincent Patrick, Chronicler of Hustlers and Mobsters, Dies at 88
A novelist and screenwriter, he wrote “The Pope of Greenwich Village” and “Family Business” and brought them both to the big screen.
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‘Waiting for the Light to Change’ Review: Listless in a Lakeside Cabin
In her feature debut, the director Linh Tran tries to capture the longing and inertia between adolescence and adulthood.
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‘The Persian Version’ Review: A Bumpy Road Out of Iran
An Iranian American woman navigates her family life and her personal life in this semi-autobiographical feature from Maryam Keshavarz.
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‘Silver Dollar Road’ Review: Black Land Loss Is Still Happening
The 20th century saw a mass dispossession of Black farmers. This intimate documentary focuses on one family’s recent battle to keep their home in North Carolina.
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‘Young Soul Rebels,’ Isaac Julien’s 1991 Drama, Lands at IFC
A newly restored print of Isaac Julien’s 1991 politically minded musical drama opens Oct. 20 at the IFC Center.
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‘Butcher’s Crossing’ Review: Perilous Country
This western about the gluttony of westward expansion is saddled with a miscast Nicolas Cage.
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Review: An Unsettling Masterpiece
Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a romance, a western, a whodunit and a lesson in the bloody history of the Osage murders of the 1920s.
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Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ Actor Who Played Complex Tough Guys, Dies at 83
A former boxer from the streets of Queens, he became a scene stealer with his portrayals of mobsters, cops and working men with soul.