Manohla Dargis
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New York Film Festival Pitches Its Ever-Expanding, Global Tent
Standout selections include “Nickel Boys,” the Mumbai-set “All We Imagine as Light” and the documentary “Dahomey,” about African repatriation.
‘Megalopolis’ Review: The Fever Dreams of Francis Ford Coppola
The director’s latest is a great-man story about an architect, played by Adam Driver, driven by ideals and big plans. It’s a personal statement on...
‘Saturday Night’ Review: Live TV at Its Mildest
When it debuted 50 years ago, “S.N.L.” was chaotic, rangy, even offensive. But nothing’s wild or crazy in Jason Reitman’s fictional reimagining of its first...
‘Saturday Night’ Review: Live TV at Its Mildest
When it debuted 50 years ago, “S.N.L.” was chaotic, rangy, even offensive. But nothing’s wild or crazy in Jason Reitman’s fictional reimagining of its first...
‘Wolfs’ Review: Brad Pitt and George Clooney as Themselves
They play underworld fixers in this trifle of a movie, though really they’re here to look enviably fabulous.
‘His Three Daughters’ Review: Sisters at Odds Together
Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon and Elizabeth Olsen play sisters who are caring for their dying father in this tender, funny family drama.
At Toronto, ‘Dahomey,’ ‘Nightbitch’ and ‘Hard Truths’ Prove Highlights
Films by Mati Diop, Raoul Peck and Mike Leigh, among others, mesh the personal and political in engrossing, insistent ways.
‘Speak No Evil’ Review: He Seemed So Nice
In this horror remake, James McAvoy plays an aggressively friendly British stranger who extends a dubious invitation to an American couple. Suckers!
‘Speak No Evil’ Review: He Seemed So Nice
In this horror remake, James McAvoy plays an aggressively friendly British stranger who extends a dubious invitation to an American couple. Suckers!
Demi Moore and the Subversive Politics of the Naked Body
She has become known for baring all (or, at least, a lot). But her work, including her newest film, “The Substance,” should be understood in...