For the second consecutive year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presents Neighboring Scenes (January 26-31), a showcase of contemporary Latin American cinema featuring 15 films from 9 different countries. This year half the films were directed by …Read more

Léo (Damien Bonnard), the hero of Alain Guiraudie’s Staying Vertical is a lost man. When we first meet him he is driving aimlessly seemingly looking for purpose. He thinks he finds it when he discovers the beautiful young Yoan (Basile Meilleurat) on …Read more

Salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), dissatisfied with the dearth of prosperity in his milkshake maker business, decides to visit a small family diner in San Bernardino following a large order of his supplies from sibling owners Maurice “Mac” (John Ca …Read more

From January 6-16, the Museum of the Moving Image will present its First Look Festival, which this year features films from over twenty countries, most of which are NY premieres. Now in its sixth year, the festival is a great showcase for cinema that …Read more

Every couple of years, a new live-action American movie musical is released, and certain people go a little nuts, hoping against hope that the genre is at last making a true and lasting comeback. In 2016, of course, that film was the snazzy and elabo …Read more

There’s a moment in Casablanca that resonates now more than ever, and proves why the film has remained the epitome of timeless. As tensions among the citizens and visitors of the title town arise due to the presence of Nazi officers and the fear of f …Read more

With the new year around the corner, our film critics wrote about the one movie that made 2016 unforgettable for them. You don’t get much out of a synopsis of La La Land, and I’ll spare you the same handful of cinematic references being passed from r …Read more

20th Century Women asks the question, “how do you raise a good man?” But its title also suggests it is asking a lot more about women. The three female leads, played by Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, and Elle Fanning are each presented with specific bi …Read more

Director J.A. Bayona has a knack for discovering fresh new faces, Roger Princep and Tom Holland, the young actors in The Orphanage and The Impossible respectively, were true revelations who in their film debuts commanded the screen with as much emoti …Read more

As far as creature features go, A Monster Calls stands out as an exceptionally sentimental one. Indeed, the monster in question is essentially a manifestation of a boy’s complicated emotions in the face of heavy loss, heavy bullying, and just the gen …Read more