Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Reviews

The Big Screen: High Flying Bird

By Mark Asch
January 28, 2019
The air up there: Steven Soderbergh discovers yet another profession whose practitioners’ for-hire physiques stand in for the gig-to-gig economics of his own creative hustle.

Film of the Week: Jessica Forever

By Jonathan Romney
January 24, 2019
Unidentifiable filmic object: a den mother and her brood navigate a dystopian future in this unclassifiable film screening February 8 in Film Comment Selects

Film of the Week: Glass

By Jonathan Romney
January 18, 2019
All too superhuman: M. Night Shyamalan has nerve choosing Glass as the title for a film so unashamedly non-transparent

Short Take: Girl

By Nick Davis
January 18, 2019
(Lukas Dhont, Belgium/Netherlands, Netflix, Opening January 18)

Short Take: State Like Sleep

By Madeline Whittle
January 17, 2019
(Meredith Danluck, USA, The Orchard, Opening January 4)

Film of the Week: The Heiresses

By Jonathan Romney
January 11, 2019
Rearranging the deckchairs: two middle-aged Paraguayan women cling to a semblance of respectable society amidst dysfunction

The Big Screen: Birds of Passage

By Manuel Yáñez-Murillo
January 2, 2019
Guns, drugs, and steel: tradition clashes with a brazen modernity in a new film from Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego

Short Take: Destroyer

By Nick Davis
December 19, 2018
(Karyn Kusama, USA, Annapurna Pictures, Opening December 25)

Review: Cold War

By Ela Bittencourt
December 19, 2018
(Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland, Amazon Studios, Opening December 21)

Deep Focus: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

By Michael Sragow
December 14, 2018
Flat-out fun: the late superhero arrival to 2018 turns out to be deliciously entertaining