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Two Highlights From the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 16, 2026October 15, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments 8 1 2, Adam Driver, Aftersun, Alice Bailey Johnson, All of a Sudden, Andor, art and empathy, arthouse cinema, Birgit Minichmayr, British cinema, Cannes Film Festival, capitalism, Carlos Reygadas, Charlotte Wells, dementia, Drive My Car, elder care, Emeric Pressburger, Everytime, experimental cinema, Federico Fellini, female friendship, Film at Lincoln Center, film criticism, film scores, French cinema, Gone to Earth, Gregory Oke, grief, Hard Truths, Heil Jupiter!, James Gray, Japanese cinema, JoBeth Williams, Kate OFlynn, Marion Bailey, Michael Clayton, Michael Powell, Mike Leigh, Miles Teller, mortality, movie reviews, New York Film Festival, New York Film Festival 2026, nursing homes, NYFF 2026, Paul Jesson, Pedro Pascal, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, social realism, social workers, surrealism, Tao Okamoto, Tender Loving Care, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Virginie Efira, Widow's Bay

The probable last film from a British legend and the latest work from a Japanese master brightened this year’s edition of this festival of festivals.

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Two Disappointments in the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 15, 2026October 19, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 1 Comment 8 1 2, Adam Driver, Aftersun, Andor, arthouse cinema, Behemoth!, Birgit Minichmayr, Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Reygadas, Charlotte Wells, classical music, Emeric Pressburger, Eva Victor, Everytime, experimental cinema, Federico Fellini, Film at Lincoln Center, film criticism, film scores, Gone to Earth, Gregory Oke, grief, Heil Jupiter!, James Gray, JoBeth Williams, Michael Clayton, Michael Powell, Miles Teller, movie reviews, New York Film Festival, New York Film Festival 2026, NYFF 2026, Olivia Wilde, Paper Tiger, Pedro Pascal, Sandra Wollner, Scarlett Johansson, surrealism, TIFF, Tony Gilroy, Toronto International Film Festival, Will Arnett

Pre-festival hype and even stars like Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde don’t always satisfy

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Winners and Losers of Cannes 2026

May 24, 2026May 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adam Driver, Andrey Zvyagintsev, art house cinema, Cannes 2026, Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu, European film, Federico Garcia Lorca, Film Awards, Fjord, Glenn Close, international cinema, Ira Sachs, James Gray, Los Javis, Miles Teller, Minotaur, Neon, Netflix, Oscar buzz, Palme D'Or, Paper Tiger, Park Chan-Wook, Paweł Pawlikowski, Penelope Cruz, Rami Malek, Renata Reinsve, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, The Black Ball, world cinema

A jury including Park Chan-wook, Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao, and Stellen Skarsgård choose a worthy slate

Cannes Has Some Serious (and Some Comic) Daddy Issues

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments A24, Adam Driver, art house cinema, arthouse film, arthouse films, Asghar Farhadi, auteur cinema, award season, Camp Miasma, Cannes 2026, Cannes Film Festival, cinema criticism, cinema culture, Club Kid, cold war cinema, Cristian Mungiu, daddy issues, directorial debuts, Disney Plus, Elijah Wood, European cinema, European film, fatherhood in film, Fatherland, festival acquisitions, festival buzz, Festival Coverage, film criticism, film distribution, film festival coverage, film festivals, Fjord, Friday the 13th, Gentle Monster, Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, Havana Rose Liu, Hirokazu Kore-eda, independent filmmaking, Indie Film, international cinema, Ira Sachs, James Gray, Jane Schoenbrun, Javier Bardem, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Lennon The Last Interview, John Travolta, Jordan Firstman, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, LGBTQ cinema, meta horror, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Michelle Rodriguez, midnight movies, movie industry news, Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar contenders, Palme D'Or, Paper Tiger, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Jackson, Pierre Salvadori, postwar Germany, queer cinema, Quentin Dupieux, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sandra Hüller, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Lennon, Sebastian Stan, Slasher Movies, Sophie Thatcher, Steven Soderbergh, The Beatles, The Beloved, The Electric Kiss, The Fast and the Furious, Thomas Mann, Un Certain Regard, Vin Diesel, Woody Harrelson, world cinema

Family ties are being stretched for drama and laughs in festival film after film

Jim Jarmusch and Lav Diaz Sparkle in New York

October 17, 2025 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Adam Driver, Arthur Tort, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Father Mother Sister Brother, Gael García Bernal, Gavagai, Indya Moore, Jim Jarmusch, Lav Diaz, Lucrecia Martel, Luka Sabbat, Magellan, Mayim Bialik, New York Film Festival 2025, NYFF 2025, Tom Waits, Ulrich Köhler, Vicky Krieps

Films from American independent legend and Filipino art-house darling fascinate audiences at NYFF2025

Megalopolis

First Look: ‘Megalopolis’

May 17, 2024May 21, 2024 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Francis Ford Coppola, Giancarlo Esposito, Lawrence Fishburne, Megalopolis, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Talia Shire

Mega-messy but never boring, Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project debuts at Cannes

Ferrari

Enzo Ferrari, the Mann and the Myth

December 28, 2023December 31, 2023 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Adam Driver, Ferrari, Michael Mann, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley

Michael Mann’s excellent ‘Ferrari’ is grittier and more personal than other recent auto-racing movies

Venice

What I Saw in Venice

September 9, 2023September 14, 2023 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Adam Driver, Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Emma Stone, Ferrari, Luc Besson, Maestro, Michael Mann, Poor Things, Roman Polanski, Yorgos Lanthimos

The triumph of ‘Poor Things,’ a Roman Polanski train wreck, and much more

Dino Schlock

March 13, 2023 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 65, Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Bryan Woods, Chloe Coleman, Nika King, Scott Beck

Adam Driver rockets in from another galaxy for ’65,’ a disappointing sci-fi curio

White Noise

The Don DeLillo Film: Not a Total Disaster

January 4, 2023January 6, 2023 Jonpaul Henry Guinn 0 Comments Adam Driver, Andre Benjamin, Don Cheadle, Greta Gerwig, Jodie Turner-Smith, Noah Baumbach, White Noise

The “Airborne Toxic Event” delivers, but the rest of Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ adaptation is a pretentious slog

House of Gucci

Gucci Gucci Goo

November 24, 2021April 3, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adam Driver, Al Pacino, House of Gucci, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, lady gaga, Ridley Scott

‘House of Gucci,’ a knock-off luxury handbag of a movie from Ridley Scott

The Last Duel

A Middling Middle Ages #MeToo

October 15, 2021October 19, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adam Driver, Ben Affleck, Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Ridley Scott, The Last Duel

In ‘The Last Duel,’ believe all medieval women

Cannes

The Cannes Came Back

July 15, 2021March 16, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments abigail breslin, Adam Driver, Adrien Brody, After Yang, Benicio del Toro, Bergman Island, Bill Murray, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Colin Farrell, Frances McDormand, Joanna Hogg, Jodie Turner-Smith, Léa Seydoux, Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Mia Hansen-Løve, Stillwater, The French Dispatch, The Souvenir Part II, Tilda Swinton, Tim Roth, Tom McCarthy, Vicky Kreips, Wes Anderson

Masked and not-really-distanced, the world’s most glamorous film festival returns

Watching ‘Marriage Story’ When You’re Divorced

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 Rachel Llewellyn 5 Comments Adam Driver, Alan Alda, Diane Keaton, Divorce, Laura Dern, Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach, Ray Liotta, Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen

Conscious Uncoupling is for the Rich

The Star Works

December 18, 2019December 18, 2019 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adam Driver, C3PO, Carrie Fisher, Chewbacca, Daisy Ridley, Ian McDiarmid, J.J. Abrams, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Rian Johnson, Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker

‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’: Overstuffed but Entertaining Fan Service

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