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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 0 Comments 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

What a Slugfest! Baby Yoda and Mando are Back

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 2026 movies, action adventure films, Ahsoka, Andor, AT-ATs, Baby Yoda, cinematic universes, Disney films, Disney Star Wars, fan service, film criticism, franchise filmmaking, genre storytelling, George Lucas, Grogu, Hollywood blockbusters, Jon Favreau, Lucasfilm, Lucasfilm productions, Martin Scorsese, movie review, Pedro Pascal, pop culture criticism, sci fi movies, science fiction films, science fiction franchises, Sigourney Weaver, space opera, space western, Star Wars, Star Wars canon, Star Wars fandom, television spinoffs, The Mandalorian, The Mandalorian and Grogu

The Latest Star Wars Blockbuster Comes With Rows of Hutts

On Getting What You Wish For

August 5, 2025August 6, 2025 Benjamin Schreier 0 Comments Austin Butler, Deirdre O'Connell, Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ keeps us guessing about politics

Can the Fantastic Four Bridge the Generation Gap?

July 22, 2025August 6, 2025 Gordon Haber 0 Comments Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Julia Garner, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby

Buckle up for mid-century Marvel merriment

Materialists

‘Materialists’: Celine Song Gets It All Wrong

June 17, 2025July 3, 2025 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Celine Song, Chris Evans, Dakota Johnson, Materialists, Past Lives, Pedro Pascal

Dakota Johnson stars in snoozy, unfunny romcom

The Politics of Cannes

May 20, 2025 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ari Aster, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Chronology of Water, Die My Love, Eddington, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquin Phoenix, Kristen Stewart, Lea Drucker, Lynne Ramsay, Pedro Pascal, Quentin Tarantino, Robert DeNiro, Robert Pattinson

This year’s festival is a platform for movies with a message

April

Everything That’s Streaming In April 2025

April 1, 2025April 3, 2025 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Andor, Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker, Diego Luna, Doctor Who, Hacks, Hannah Einbinder, Harry Hamlin, Jean Smart, José Andrés, Kevin Bacon, Martha Stewart, Nathan Fielder, Ncuti Gatwa, Pedro Pascal, The Bondsman, The Handmaid's Tale, The Last of Us, The Rehearsal, You

Black Mirror, The Handmaid’s Tale, You, The Last of Us, Hacks, The Rehearsal, Andor…cancel all appointments, TV is here!

Gladiator II

‘Gladiator II’: Too Many Gladiators In A Film No One Expected

November 22, 2024November 26, 2024 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Connie Nielsen, Denzel Washington, Gladiator II, Joaquin Pheonix, Joseph Quinn, Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe

Also, Denzel Washington and a monkey wearing a diaper

Will AI Eat Hollywood?

October 10, 2024October 15, 2024 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments AI, Alec Baldwin, Jane Fonda, Lionsgate, Pedro Pascal, Runway

Studio execs say “AI” and “capital efficient” in the same breath, things aren’t good for workers in the industry who like to, well, work

Drive Away Dolls

Coen Lite

February 23, 2024February 28, 2024 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Colman Domingo, Drive Away Dolls, Ethan Coen, Geraldine Viswanathan, Margaret Qualley, Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, The Coen Brothers, Tricia Cooke

‘Drive Away Dolls’, a lezploitation noir comedy, delivers some partial Coen Brothers goods to Florida

Sundance

Notes From a Smaller Sundance

January 23, 2024January 29, 2024 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments A Real Pain, Anna Fleck, Aubrey Plaza, Dave Franco, Ed Harris, Freaky Tales, Greg Jardin, It's What's Inside, Jesse Eisenberg, Katy O'Brien, Kieran Culkin, Kristen Stewart, Love Lies Bleeding, My Old Ass, Pedro Pascal, Rose Glass, Ryan Boden, Sundance Film Festival, Will Ferrell

Fewer big stars don’t diminish the slate of indie films, but we request that the shuttle buses run on time next year

The Best TV Shows of 2023

December 19, 2023December 29, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Ali Wong, beef, Bella Ramsey, Black Mirror, Blue Eye Samurai, Charlie Brooker, Cunk on Earth, Gen V, History of the World Part @, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, Joan Is Awful, Justified: City Primeval, Lee Sung Jin, Mike Flanagan, Pedro Pascal, Pluto, Primo, Reacher, Reservation Dogs, Scavenger's Reign, Steven Yeun, Succession, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Glory, The Last of Us, Three-Body, Warrior, What We Do In The Shadows

Our critics have watched every single hour of every show on every channel and every streaming service and we’ve made our picks

New York Film Festival

What We Saw at the 2023 New York Film Festival 2023

October 16, 2023October 18, 2023 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Bertrand Bonello, Ethan Hawke, Frederick Wiseman, George MacKay, Léa Seydoux, Menus Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar, Pedro Pascal, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Strange Way of Life, The Beast, The Settlers

Sold-out screenings and a stronger-than-usual lineup

The Last of Us

‘The Last of Us’ Makes a Near-Fatal Misstep

March 14, 2023March 16, 2023 Tanya Ward Goodman 2 Comments Bella Ramsey, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman, Pedro Pascal, Sarah Polley, The Last of Us, Women Talking

To ensure a second season, the HBO show sacrificed narrative integrity in its finale

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