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Amy Taubin

Cannes: Toni! Toni! Toni!

By Amy Taubin
May 16, 2016
Parental guidance suggested: on Maren Ade's screwball comedy Toni Erdmann, which achieves true greatness—and then some

Festivals: Tribeca

By Amy Taubin
May 4, 2016
Wealth gap: in its 15th edition, the oversized festival cruises onward with a few fine films and forays into new platforms

Headline Acts

By Amy Taubin
March 3, 2016
Big spenders and old names hogged the attention at Sundance, but smaller experiments were more deserving

Sundance 2016 Preview

By Amy Taubin
January 21, 2016
Our indefatigable correspondent scopes out the competition (and other sections) in this year’s lineup

In Every Dream Home

By Amy Taubin
November 19, 2015
Todd Haynes revisits the woman’s picture and refracts Fifties heartache through our own conservative climate

Review: Carol

By Amy Taubin
November 19, 2015
Women in love: Todd Haynes finds his voice in this slow-burn adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's taboo-breaking novel

Review: Là-bas

By Amy Taubin
October 6, 2015
On Chantal Akerman's 2006 minimalist venture in Tel Aviv

Like a Hurricane

By Amy Taubin
June 30, 2015
The Diary of a Teenage Girl boldly goes where no American coming-of-age movie has gone before

Setting Sun

By Amy Taubin
June 30, 2015
Despite glorious films and great performances, the specter of the death of film was never far

Local Heroes

By Amy Taubin
June 30, 2015
A slimmer, fitter Tribeca comes back home

Review: Results

By Amy Taubin
April 23, 2015
(Andrew Bujalski, U.S., 2015)

Review: Merchants of Doubt

By Amy Taubin
March 12, 2015
(Robert Kenner, U.S., 2014)

Review: Beeswax

By Amy Taubin
March 3, 2015
(Andrew Bujalski, U.S., 2009)

Mountain Highs

By Amy Taubin
February 27, 2015
Sundance remains America’s best place to catch the next big thing

Interview: David Fincher

By Amy Taubin
September 26, 2014
The full online-exclusive Film Comment interview with the director of Gone Girl, Opening Night film of this year’s New York Film Festival

He Said, She Said

By Amy Taubin
September 26, 2014
David Fincher’s Gone Girl puts a dynamic new spin on a venerable genre—the relationship film

Review: A Single Man

By Amy Taubin
September 22, 2014
(Tom Ford, U.S., 2009)

Dog Days

By Amy Taubin
June 30, 2014
One masterpiece and a brace of superior offerings relieved the misery that is Cannes

Review: Venus in Fur

By Amy Taubin
April 29, 2014
(Roman Polanski, France/Poland, 2013)

Review: Only Lovers Left Alive

By Amy Taubin
April 15, 2014
(Jim Jarmusch, U.K./Germany/U.S., 2013)