More please: Arnow’s comedic auto-portrait of a woman adrift in New York City is a moving exploration of romantic and existential indecision, sexual self-expression, humiliation, and the uses of first-person experience in storytelling
Imitation of life: Todd Haynes’s latest, which opens this year's NYFF, rips a tale from the tabloid headlines and turns it into a modern melodrama of desire, deception, and delusion
Out of the blue: highlights from this year’s TIFF include Miko Revereza’s Nowhere Near, Atom Egoyan’s return to form Seven Veils, the murder mystery Reptile, and more
Life during wartime: the great documentarian discusses the making of his epic The Battle of Chile, which bore searing witness to the military coup of September 11, 1973
Spit take: a collection of newly restored shorts from the Sudanese Film Group strain against the didactic dictates of a state-sanctioned national cinema
Through the looking glass: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is something smarter than girlboss fantasy or canny corporate sellout—it’s a grappling, rather, with the fundamental ways in which we represent and relate to reality
Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death
Close shave: Masc, a new program on Criterion Channel, offers a rebuttal to the transphobic charge that transition and gender nonconformity are 21st-century phenomena
