Above: "Do Not Expect Too Much For The End of the World" (My favorite film of the year.)
(in the order that I saw them; unless dated it was a 2024 release)
Undercover Girl (1950)
Timebomb Y2K
Onlookers
Edward Hopper (PBS)
Napoleon (2023)
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
The Curse (Season 1)
True Detective (Season 4)
Next Goal Wins (2023)
June (2023)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Ferrari (2023)
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Madame...
Here are brief reviews of some of my favorite films from this month's DOC NYC festival.
"My Sweet Land" is a briskly paced, beautifully edited portrait of an 11-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian boy caught with his family in the series of wars against Azerbaijan which have greatly reduced the land that was once part of Armenia. The boy is remarkably positive given the circumstances and follows...
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos’ “Stanleyville,” which opens today (April 22) at the Metrograph in Manhattan, is a satire with elements of stunt/dare challenge TV shows, “The...
“If we don’t resist the Russian invasion,” Valentyn Vasyanovych told Leonardo Goi, “Ukraine will disappear as an independent state, and the countries of the...
The Museum of the Moving Image’s eleventh First Look Festival, devoted to “innovative new international cinema” takes place Wednesday, March 16 to Sunday, March...
Yujiro Harumoto’s “A Balance” is both a sensitive Japanese family drama and a powerful indictment of the myth of balanced investigatory journalism and its...
In 2020 six of Jancsó’s films were restored by the Hungarian National Film Archive and they begin a theatrical run at New York City’s Metrograph theater January 14.
