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NYFF (10 posts found)
NYFF 2016: “Gimme Danger” and “Paterson”
Vikram Murthi reviews Jim Jarmusch's two new films, "Gimme Danger" and "Paterson," from the New York Film Festival.
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NYFF 2016: “13th”
Vikram Murthi submits this review from the first night of the New York Film Festival, on the new Ava DuVernay film "13th."
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NYFF Review: “Les Cowboys”
When dealing with a controversial issue, a film’s intentions, however earnest they may be, aren’t enough to outweigh a blatantly bothersome bias. In the case of Les Cowboys, the directorial debut from Thomas Bidegain (the co-writer of Jacques Audiard’s A Proph...
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NYFF Review: “Steve Jobs”
Early in Steve Jobs, the late Apple mastermind played by Michael Fassbender defines the purpose of his company: “Our job is to tell the customers what they want.” Underneath the famous “Think Different” catchphrase that accompanied the classic 1984-style Super...
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NYFF Review: “Where to Invade Next”
Just the mention of Michael Moore is enough to send some viewers into spasms of protest. The Oscar-winning documentarian has a history of provoking the right side of the political aisle with films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. Moore has incur...
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NYFF Review: “De Palma”
My Roger Ebert website questionnaire asked for a movie I loved but everyone else hated. I chose Wise Guys, a movie that even hardcore Brian De Palma fans won’t endorse. Released in 1986, the Danny DeVito-Joe Piscopo movie marked its director’s return to comedy...
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NYFF Review: “Mia Madre”
Mia Madre, the latest film from Cannes festival darling, Nanni Moretti, is a companion piece of sorts to his 2001 Palm d’Or-winner, The Son’s Room. That film, which dealt with the loss of a child, is the more emotionally successful affair; a parent burying the...
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NYFF Review: “Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton”
The most succinct summary of Guy Maddin’s latest short film, made in collaboration with Evan and Galen Johnson, comes from Toronto critic Adam Nayman, who declared, “there’s never been shade-throwing of this magnitude in the history of Canadian cinema.” The fi...
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New York Film Festival Dispatch #3: “Merchants of Doubt”, “Citizenfour” and “Foxcatcher”
Merchants of Doubt
The new documentary from Food, Inc. director Robert Kenner presents a frustrating contradiction: it’s a film designed to take down corporate America’s slippery lobbyists and think tank “experts” that too often falls into the same glib...
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New York Film Festival Review: Richard Gere Unconvincing in “Time Out of Mind”
If you believe one of film’s most important social objectives is to foster empathy – to allow the audience to walk in the shoes of someone they never would get to know in real life – then it is hard to dislike a film about homelessness. The homeless remain the...
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