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Critics Academy

Close Reading: Born to Be

By Bessie Rubinstein
November 1, 2019
Seeking the self: our latest dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy looks at Tania Cypriano’s documentary about the emotional journey of gender transition

Close Reading: Endless Night

By Cassidy Olsen
October 30, 2019
Darkness falls: our latest dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy delves into Eloy Enciso’s meditation on life under fascism

Close Reading: Martin Eden

By Peter Kim George
October 29, 2019
A man alone: our latest dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy looks at director Pietro Marcello’s tale of a writer’s rise

Close Reading: To the Ends of the Earth

By Moeko Fujii
October 21, 2019
A star is forlorn: the latest dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy looks at Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s meditation on the fantasies we map on to foreign lands

Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Fire Will Come

By Mara Theodoropoulou
October 17, 2019
Flaming creatures: our latest NYFF Critics Academy dispatch shines a light on three festival standouts

Close Reading: Liberté

By Beatrice Loayza
October 16, 2019
Dancers in the dark: a dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy, on the power of impotence in Albert Serra’s latest

Close Reading: Bacurau

By A.G. Sims
October 14, 2019
In the real world: with Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles imagine a lawless future for Brazil

Saturday Fiction and Sibyl

By Michelle Chow
October 9, 2019
The play’s the thing: our latest NYFF Critics Academy dispatch draws out similarities in the self-reflexive approaches of films from Lou Ye and Justine Triet

Close Reading: Beanpole

By Nicholas Russell
October 8, 2019
The pain of kindness: our first NYFF Critics Academy dispatch takes a look at Kantemir Balagov’s wartime drama