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New York Times Critic's Picks

New York Times Critic's Picks

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New York Times Critic's Picks
  • Martin Eden

    Directed by Pietro Marcello • Arthouse • 2020 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Denise Sardisco

    Winner of the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival and adapted from the 1909 novel by Jack London, "Martin Eden" follows a dashing young proleta...

  • 3 Faces

    Directed by Jafar Panah • Arthouse • 2019 • Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
    Featuring Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei

    Winner of the Best Screenplay Award and nominated for a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, "3 Faces" is Iranian director Jafar Panahi's fourth feature since...

  • 52 Tuesdays

    Directed by Sophie Hyde • Drama • 2013 • Australia • English
    Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Del Herbert-Jane

    16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for a gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday a...

  • Acasa, My Home

    Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc • Documentary • 2020 • Romania, Germany • Romanian with English subtitles
    Featuring Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache

    Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary follows a family with...

  • Aquarius

    Directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho • Arthouse • 2016 • Brazil • Portuguese w/ English subtitles
    Starring Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos

    Clara (Sonia Braga), a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is th...

  • A Touch of Sin

    Directed by Jia Zhangke • Arthouse • 2013 • China • Mandarin with English subtitles
    Starring Tao Zhao, Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang

    Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke, this daring, poetic and grand-scale film focuses on four charact...

  • A Woman's Life

    Directed by Stéphane Brizé • Arthouse • 2017 • France • French w/ English subtitles
    Starring Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, Nina Meurisse, Olivier Perrier

    "A Woman's Life" is a tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of ma...

  • Bacurau

    Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles • Arthouse • 2019 • Brazil, France • English and Portuguese with English subtitles
    Starring Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Michael, Bárbara Colen

    Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, "Bacurau" follows the inhabitants of a small B...

  • Barbara

    Directed by Christian Petzold • Arthouse • 2012 • Germany • German with English subtitles
    Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock

    Winner of two awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Christian Petzold's "Barbara" follows a young doctor, played by Nina Hoss ("Tar"), who has applied for an e...

  • Beanpole

    Directed by Kantemir Balagov • Arthouse • 2020 • Russia • Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov

    In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjus...

  • Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

    Directed by Pamela B. Green • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Jodie Foster, Alice Guy-Blache, Agnes Varda, Ava DuVernay, Geena Davis

    Narrated by Jodie Foster, this full feature documentary rewrites film history, revealing for the first time the full scope of the life and work of cine...

  • Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint

    Directed by Halina Dyrschka • Documentary • 2019 • Germany • English, German, Swedish with English subtitles
    Featuring Johan af Klint, Julia Voss, Ulla af Klint

    The subject of a 2018 awe-inspiring retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term even ...

  • Bill Cunningham New York

    Directed by Richard Press • Documentary • 2010 • US • English
    Featuring Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Iris Apfel

    A delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of bicycle-riding octogenarian Bill Cunningham, the beloved 'New York Times' style photographer who was famous for his weekly columns "...

  • Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

    Directed by Jeffrey Wolf • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Russell G. Jones, Sharon Washington, Jason Samuels Smith

    This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work ...

  • Bix: "Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet"

    Directed by Brigitte Berman • Documentary • 1981 • US • English
    Featuring Bix Beiderbecke, Richard Basehart, Doc Cheatham

    Cornetist / pianist / composer Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was jazz’s man who got away. Beiderbecke became a legend even in his short lifetime, bringing an amazing new...

  • Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

    Directed by Alexandra Dean • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
    Featuring Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich, Diane Kruger

    What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are ...

  • Boy

    Directed by Taika Waititi • Comedy • 2010 • New Zealand • English
    Starring Taika Waititi, James Rollestone, Ricky Lee Waipuka-Russell

    An international hit from acclaimed director Taika Waititi ("Thor: Ragnarok"), this Berlin Film Festival winner is a hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale ab...

  • Bugs

    Directed by Andreas Johnsen • Documentary • 2016 • Denmark • English, Danish w/ English subtitles
    Featuring Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade

    "Bugs" is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine. Watch as filmmaker Andreas Johnsen and his te...

  • Camille Claudel 1915

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy

    Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as sculptor Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin's protégé and later mistress. Inspired by the correspondence wit...

  • Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

    Directed by Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
    Featuring Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane

    Reaching beyond the world of dance and the remarkable legacy of renowned choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones, this Peabody Award winning documentary touches the essence of c...

  • Chile '76

    Directed by Manuela Martelli • Drama • 2022 • Chile, Argentina • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Aline Kuppenheim, Nicolas Sepulveda, Hugo Medina

    Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, "Chile ‘76" builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as i...

  • Custody

    Directed by Xavier Legrand • Drama • 2018 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Lea Drucker, Denis Menochet, Thomas Gioria

    A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this domestic thriller that will keep audiences guessing and leave them...

  • Dawson City: Frozen Time

    Directed by Bill Morrison • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
    Featuring Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates

    Part fever dream, part historical record, this is the bizarre true story of some 533 silent film reels, buried for almost 50 years in a sub-arctic swimming pool, deep in the Yukon permafrost....

  • Denise Ho - Becoming the Song

    Directed by Sue Williams • Documentary • 2020 • US • English and Cantonese with English subtitles
    Featuring Denise Ho

    "Denise Ho – Becoming the Song" profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented access, the film explores her remarkable jo...