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Listen: Acceptance Speeches from the 2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Gala
Posted on January 6, 2018 | No CommentsListen to some of the acceptance speeches from our 2017 ceremony. -
![[Martin] McDonagh’s sense of morality readily lends itself to entertaining plot turns and impressive acting. He leans into the kinds of vicious, manipulative contradictions that make melodramas so powerful. But […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/threebillboardsoutsideebbingmissouri.jpg "K. Austin Collins on Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri")
K. Austin Collins on Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Posted on November 9, 2017 | No Comments[Martin] McDonagh’s sense of morality readily lends itself to entertaining plot turns and impressive acting. He leans into the kinds of vicious, manipulative contradictions that make melodramas so powerful. But […] -
![Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is someone cursed with that familiar, often painful, gift of youth—absolute certainty. She feels everything strongly, expresses her opinions loudly, and both wounds and charms the […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ladybird.jpg "David Sims on Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird")
David Sims on Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird
Posted on November 2, 2017 | No CommentsChristine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is someone cursed with that familiar, often painful, gift of youth—absolute certainty. She feels everything strongly, expresses her opinions loudly, and both wounds and charms the […] -
![The “cabinet of wonders”—a museum-like room stuffed to bursting with objects from the worlds of natural history, archaeology, and art—is a recurring theme in Todd Haynes’ new film Wonderstruck, based […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/wonderstruck.jpg "Dana Stevens on Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck")
Dana Stevens on Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck
Posted on October 26, 2017 | No CommentsThe “cabinet of wonders”—a museum-like room stuffed to bursting with objects from the worlds of natural history, archaeology, and art—is a recurring theme in Todd Haynes’ new film Wonderstruck, based […] -
![In Columbus, architecture takes the place of emotions, to sometimes startling effect. An outwardly chilly, resolutely static film that nevertheless finds poignancy in the most surprising places, Kogonada’s directorial debut […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/columbus.jpg "Bilge Ebiri on Kogonada’s Columbus")
Bilge Ebiri on Kogonada’s Columbus
Posted on August 4, 2017 | No CommentsIn Columbus, architecture takes the place of emotions, to sometimes startling effect. An outwardly chilly, resolutely static film that nevertheless finds poignancy in the most surprising places, Kogonada’s directorial debut […] -
![Let my people go… ape? The “Planet of the Apes” films have always been about surprises. With a title that sounded like Samuel Z. Arkoff-level schlock, the first “Apes” picture […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/warfortheplanetoftheapes.jpg "Jordan Hoffman on Matt Reeves’s War for the Planet of the Apes")
Jordan Hoffman on Matt Reeves’s War for the Planet of the Apes
Posted on July 14, 2017 | No CommentsLet my people go… ape? The “Planet of the Apes” films have always been about surprises. With a title that sounded like Samuel Z. Arkoff-level schlock, the first “Apes” picture […] -
![Errol Morris’s quietly passionate and inspiring new film, “The B-Side,” which opens Friday, is a work of echoes and reflections. It’s a documentary portrait of Elsa Dorfman, a photographer who […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/bside.jpg "Richard Brody on Errol Morris’s The B-Side")
Richard Brody on Errol Morris’s The B-Side
Posted on June 29, 2017 | No CommentsErrol Morris’s quietly passionate and inspiring new film, “The B-Side,” which opens Friday, is a work of echoes and reflections. It’s a documentary portrait of Elsa Dorfman, a photographer who […] -
![Perhaps Wonder Woman’s greatest superpower is enduring for the past 75 years as a wildly unstable signifier. Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot in the title role, further adds […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wonderwoman.jpg "Melissa Anderson on Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman")
Melissa Anderson on Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman
Posted on May 31, 2017 | No CommentsPerhaps Wonder Woman’s greatest superpower is enduring for the past 75 years as a wildly unstable signifier. Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot in the title role, further adds […] -
![Though festival tiredness (and madness) may be partly to blame, I’m going to give most of the credit for my weepy Friday morning to Okja, the new film from South […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/okja.jpg "Richard Lawson on Bong Joon-ho’s Okja")
Richard Lawson on Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
Posted on May 19, 2017 | No CommentsThough festival tiredness (and madness) may be partly to blame, I’m going to give most of the credit for my weepy Friday morning to Okja, the new film from South […] -
![Once the guns start blazing in Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, they don’t really stop. Prolific British director Ben Wheatley’s massively entertaining recovery from the messy J.G. Ballard adaptation High-Rise is […]](https://www.nyfcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/freefire.jpg "Eric Kohn on Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire")
Eric Kohn on Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire
Posted on April 18, 2017 | No CommentsOnce the guns start blazing in Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, they don’t really stop. Prolific British director Ben Wheatley’s massively entertaining recovery from the messy J.G. Ballard adaptation High-Rise is […]