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Columns

Present Tense: Tomboys

By Sheila O'Malley
November 21, 2019
One of the guys: the figure of the tomboy has popped up regularly throughout the timeline of movies

Queer & Now & Then: 1988

By Michael Koresky
November 20, 2019
Close to you: Todd Haynes’s Superstar uses disease as cover for a social rot so entrenched there may be no cure

Classified: Whodunits

By April Wolfe
November 14, 2019
One more thing: reassessing a genre that can make a shabby first impression

Feeling Seen: John Sayles, Bruce Springsteen, and Baby It’s You

By Caden Mark Gardner
November 7, 2019
My hometown: Sayles’s film uses the Boss’s tunes to capture a place and people caught between eras

Present Tense: Angel Baby

By Sheila O'Malley
November 5, 2019
Darkness at the break of day: Michael Rymer’s 1995 film is a vivid portrayal of the highest highs and the lowest lows

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

Present Tense: Audience vs. Alone

By Sheila O'Malley
October 24, 2019
On an island: what we lose—and gain—when we watch alone

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