My Five Favorite Movies of 2022
From the mainstream to the (very) independent, here are one critic’s choices from an understatedly great cinematic year
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Author: Kenji Fujishima
Inspiration and Disappointment At The New York Film Festival
Much-anticipated titles didn’t exactly deliver what our critic expected
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The New York Film Festival, Back on Form
NYFF features an excellent slate, and expands to the outer boroughs
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The Return of ‘The Wobblies’
For May Day, a reissue of a classic documentary about a radical labor movement
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The Art of Halyna Hutchins
What we lost in the shooting death on the set of ‘Rust’
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‘C’mon C’mon,’ ‘Parallel Mothers,’ and ‘Memoria’
Family concerns dominate the last week of the NYFF
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‘The Velvet Underground’ Above Ground
Another dispatch from the New York Film Festival
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The New York Film Festival Returns…and Expands
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RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo
‘Breathless’ made him a revered cinema icon for decades
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‘Undine’ Mixes Myth and Magic
Petzold’s newest film is also his most accessible
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‘About Endlessness,’ the Latest Film From One of the Finest Living Directors
Roy Andersson, from Sweden, has a tragicomic style all his own
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‘Center Stage’ Returns to the Spotlight
New York’s Metrograph theater revives an unconventional Chinese biopic
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The Wonderful World of Wong Kar-Wai
U.S. debuts highlight a retrospective of the great filmmaker’s works
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Something’s Rotten in Romania
‘Collective,’ Alexander Nanau’s documentary about corruption in Romanian society, has lessons to impart worldwide.
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French Exit Closes out the New York Film Festival
Family ties bind a wide array of cinematic visions
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