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Mastermind ︎ 12/29/25

The Best Films of 2025

Mastermind ︎ 12/26/25

Jim Jarmusch’s Cinema of Daily Life

Mastermind ︎ 12/20/25

Inside the Safdie Split

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 12/16/25

New Disaster Cinema

Mastermind ︎ 12/01/25

The Trouble With Hamnet

Interview ︎ 12/01/25

Interview: Melissa Anderson

Mastermind ︎ 11/24/25

Orson Welles’ Hall of Mirrors

November ︎ 10/31/25

Interview: Kelly Reichardt

Mastermind ︎ 10/23/25

The Crumbling Social Orders of Stanley Kubrick

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 10/01/25

It Is Our Duty to Win

Mastermind ︎ 09/10/25

Lessons in Empathy at the Venice Film Festival

Mastermind ︎ 09/02/25

The Stranger, Recast as a Colonial Reckoning

Mastermind ︎ 08/29/25

Luca Guadagnino Goes Hunting for #MeToo’s Gray Areas

Mastermind ︎ 08/28/25

In Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos Finds Horror and Humor in America’s Collapse

LA Review of Books ︎ 08/13/25

Preferring the Company of Parrots and Dogs

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 06/04/25

A Case for Happy Endings in Sentimental Value

Mastermind ︎ 05/26/25

In The Mastermind, Josh O’Connor Fumbles the Art Heist

Mastermind ︎ 05/02/25

Chloë Sevigny and Durga Chew-Bose on Bonjour Tristesse

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 04/01/25

Orpheus Looks Back

Hyperallergic ︎ 02/24/25

Universal Language Brings Tim Hortons to Tehran

Senses of Cinema ︎ 01/24/25

Changing of the Guard: The 62nd New York Film Festival

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 10/23/2024

The Six Spikiest Movies of New York Film Festival

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 09/24/2024

The Erotic Pity of Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 06/01/2024

Jiajun “Oscar” Zhang’s All, or Nothing at All

NYRA ︎ 04/18/2024

At First Flush

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 03/06/2024

Zaynê Akyol’s Rojek

Hyperallergic︎ 02/08/2024

The Writer Who Made Movies to Get Out of the House

Senses of Cinema ︎01/20/2024

Steve Doughton and Jon Raymond On Earthlings

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 12/20/2023

After-Memories of the Shoah in The Zone of Interest

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 12/15/2023

Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 07/27/2023

The Barbenheimer Phenomenon

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 07/20/2023

Giving Up the Ghost

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 06/08/2023

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 06/01/2023

Cristain Mungiu’s R.M.N.

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 03/01/2023

Daniel Antebi’s God’s Time

NYRA︎ 02/03/2023

Avatar: The Way of Water

Senses of Cinema ︎ 01/31/2023

World Cinema Poll 2022

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 12/14/2022

Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 12/14/2022

The Greatest Films You’ll Never See: Stop!

Senses of Cinema ︎ 10/30/2022

NYFF 60: Hide and Seek

Film Quarterly ︎ 10/07/2022

The Returned Gaze: Ukraine in the Documentaries of Sergei Loznitsa

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 10/03/2022

What I Watched This Summer

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 09/01/2022

Andrew Semans’s Resurrection

Spike Art Magazine ︎ 06/17/2022

7pm in Cannes

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 06/01/2022

Audrey Diwan’s Happening

Senses of Cinema ︎ 05/28/2022

Interview: Albert Birney & Kentucker Audley Discuss Strawberry Mansion

LA Review of Books ︎ 04/29/2022

“Great Freedom” and the Paradox of Desire and Repression

The Brooklyn Rail ︎ 03/09/2022

Iuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud

Senses of Cinema ︎ 10/05/2021

Embarrassment Of Riches: The 59th New York Film Festival

No. 3 ︎ 12/29/2020

Malina: Film as Ashtray

No. 3 ︎ 05/31/2020

In La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard Attempts to Revolutionize Himself

No.3 ︎ 05/15/2020

Ema and the Next Chapter of Movie-Watching

Cinema Skyline ︎ 10/05/2019

Parasite and the Troubled Politics of Servitude

Cinema Skyline︎ 10/05/2019

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Stares Back

Cinema Skyline ︎ 10/05/2019

The Cotton Club Encore

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 05/26/2018

Haifaa Al-Mansour and Douglas Booth Reveal What It Was Like to Work Together on Mary Shelley

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 05/18/2018

Mary Shelley‘s Dramatic Love Story of Cruelty and Neglect

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 05/05/2018

Jeroen Van Velzen Discusses His Film Tanzania Transit at Tribeca

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/25/2018

Tribeca: Daughter Of Mine Director Laura Bispuri and Actress Alba Rohrwacher on Womanhood And Sexuality

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/25/2018

The Gospel According to André Offers a Profile of ‘The Nelson Mandela of Couture’

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/22/2018

The Serengeti Rules Offers Hope For Our Ecology

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/22/2018

House Two Accuses General Mattis of Covering up Haditha Massacre

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/21/2018

Blowin’ Up Explores the Unseen Lives of Sex Workers

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/21/2018

The Serengeti Rules Offers Hope For Our Ecology

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/20/2018

Tanzania Transit Follows Three People Finding Their Way

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/19/2018

Tribeca —Daughter Of Mine Tells the Story of Imperfect Motherhood

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 04/18/2018

Tribeca and the Power of Corporate Consciousness

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 02/24/2018

Red Joan And Red Sparrow—The Politics of Cold War Cinema

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 11/01/2017

Dee Rees’ Mudbound, Now Showing on Netflix, Is One to Watch

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 10/27/2017

A Portrait of Harvey Weinstein as Hollywood Itself

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 10/12/2017

Qiu Yang Interview: “Life Doesn’t Always Have an Ending”

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 10/07/2017

New York Film Festival: Greta Gerwig’s Debut Lady Bird

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 10/06/2017

Vanessa Redgrave on Refugee Crisis: “It Could Be Us”

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 10/06/2017

Gerwig: “What Better Way to Make a Love Letter Than Through Somebody Who Wants to Get Out”

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 10/04/2017

New York Film Festival Review: Call Me By Your Name

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/30/2017

Ruben Ostlund: “We Are All Born Into a Kind of Collective Guilt”

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/28/2017

New York Film Festival World Premiere: Last Flag Flying

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/27/2017

Noah Baumbach Walks NYFF Through His Meyerowitz Stories

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/27/2017

Lover For A Day Brings the Garrel Dynasty to New York

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/27/2017

Hong Sangsoo Takes the American Indie Film Overseas

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/24/2017

The Florida Project: Sean Baker’s Film About America’s New Gilded Age

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/23/2017

A Supernatural Reckoning With Sexuality in Thelma

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/23/2017

Ismael’s Ghosts Gets an Extended Cut for NYFF

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/22/2017

The Rider Carefully Undoes the Myth of the American West

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/21/2017

The Other Side of Hope Is the Most Unexpected Film at NYFF

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/21/2017

Félicité Brings Kinshasa to New York

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/20/2017

New York Film Festival: The Hidden Realities of Arthur Miller

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/19/2017

Joan Didion and the Soft Opening of New York Film Festival

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/19/2017

A Tribute To Filmmaker Rob Reiner

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/17/2017

The Beguiled: Sophia Coppola’s Feminist Reimagining

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/13/2017

The White Crow Is a Bold Political Test For Director Ralph Fiennes

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/11/2017

Roman Polanski, in Exile, Hides Behind His New Movie

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 09/04/2017

Festival de Cannes and t he Twin Peaks Revival

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 08/28/2017

Le Redoubtable Tells the Story of Godard’s Cinematic Revolution

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 08/17/2017

The Meyerowitz Stories Will Be Screened at New York Film Festival

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 08/12/2017

24 Frames: The Last Word of Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 08/06/2017

White Savior Complex Abounds in Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 07/28/2017

120 Beats Per Minute Tells a Story of AIDS Awareness

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 07/09/2017

Visages Villages: Agnès Varda and JR’s Documentary Memoir

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 07/01/2017

You Were Never Really Here and the Boys’ Clubs of Cinema and Sex Trafficking

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 06/26/2017

Jupiter’s Moon Exposes the Extent of The Syrian Refugee Crisis Across Europe

The Pavlovic Today ︎ 06/18/2017

In a Time of Political Correctness, Freedom of Expression Is More Important Than Ever

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