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Reviews

Film of the Week: Cocote

By Jonathan Romney
July 27, 2018
Cycle of life: vengeance and injustice loom over a homecoming in a passionate new film from Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias

Deep Focus: Mission: Impossible – Fallout

By Michael Sragow
July 26, 2018
Can-do attitude: the latest entry in the action franchise wrings some more suspense out of its espionage hijinks

Short Take: The Captain

By José Teodoro
July 23, 2018
(Robert Schwentke, Germany/Poland/Portugal/France, Music Box Films, Opening July 27)

Short Take: Good Manners

By Nicolas Rapold
July 23, 2018
(Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas, Brazil, Distrib Films, Opening July 27)

Film of the Week: The Third Murder

By Jonathan Romney
July 19, 2018
Open to interpretation: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s legal drama about a murder blurs the line between enigmatic and perhaps merely vague

Review: Blindspotting

By Tayler Montague
July 16, 2018
(Carlos López Estrada, USA, Lionsgate, Opening July 20)

Film of the Week: What Will People Say

By Jonathan Romney
July 13, 2018
Shock of the new: a free-spirited teen girl from an immigrant Muslim family in Norway must learn how to navigate tradition.

Deep Focus: Fred & Ginger

By Michael Sragow
July 12, 2018
Lighter than air: Astaire and Rogers have still got it after all these years, as proven in Film Society’s new complete retrospective

Film of the Week: Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

By Jonathan Romney
July 6, 2018
Symphony of life: a new documentary portrays the eminent composer as an engaging man of ideas (and all the right notes)

Deep Focus: Ant-Man and the Wasp

By Michael Sragow
July 5, 2018
The sting: Peyton Reed and Paul Rudd keep the spark alive in the latest story about the size-shifting superhero