A Bird’s-Eye View of Manhattan: ‘Wild Inside’ Chronicles Flaco’s Flight
Penny Lane’s new documentary has as much to say about human foibles as it does about a late, lamented owl.
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Mario Naves is a Contributor for the Sun
Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New Criterion,the New York Observer, Slate, the Spectator World, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
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Veteran filmmaker Gregg Araki evokes John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar for his twelfth movie, yet the film skews young in its affectations.
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A Transit Season Pulls Into Film Forum
To mark the New York Transit Museum’s 50th anniversary, an 18-film subway season starts with comic capers before riding toward fraught terrain.
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A Taut Chase Movie From Down Under
Al Kalyk’s film ‘Cruel Hands,’ set against the backdrop of the Australian bushfires in 2019, is brief and all the better for it.
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‘A Sad and Beautiful World’ Is Too Cloying for Comfort
Cyril Aris’s fiction feature debut shows signs of promise, but delivers schmaltz in spades.
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The Jewish Museum’s Superb Tribute to the Women Who Helped Shape Viennese Modernism
The influence of the artists at the Wiener Werkstätte cooperative, especially Vally Wieselthier, extended towards New York and Hollywood.
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‘The Odyssey’ Is a Turgid Ode to Inclusivity That Isn’t So Inclusive of Homer
Christopher Nolan’s latest cinematic epic is flat and disjointed and squanders its star power.
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Chris Pine Goes Italian in a Film With Uneven Cinematic Language
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Film Forum Finds Itself in Another Fine Mess
A retrospective marking the legendary comedic duo’s centenary shows their cinematic legacy was richer than is often credited.
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Writer-director Georgia Bernstein pursues cinematic perversity to the detriment of dramatic rationale.
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A Seasoned Hollywood Chronicler Questions His Cinematic Life
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Rosebud Revisited, Once Again
The best art is forever fresh, and Orson Welles’s cinematic innovations, while recognizable and much imitated, have not staled over the years.
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