Friday, September 30, 2022

Movies Update: ‘Blonde,’ ‘Bros’ and More

Plus, what to watch at the New York Film Festival.
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By Stephanie Goodman

Film Editor

Hi, film fans!

The New York Film Festival's opening tonight takes us into the homestretch of the fall festival season. Our critic A.O. Scott watched several selections and came away impressed with the latest edition of the event, which turns 60, writing, "Yes, there have been concessions to popularity, to the news media and to the Oscar race, and special showings of commercially thirsty releases, but the festival stands on the confident assertion that film is art."

I myself am excited to see the opening-night title, "White Noise," and have no idea what to expect beyond what sounds like a pretty great end-credits sequence.

The other big film event this week was the Netflix debut of "Blonde," the Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas and directed by Andrew Dominik. Much has been written about the drama and there's surely more to come, but Manohla Dargis's piercing review is a must-read. This Marilyn "drifts and stumbles through a life that never feels like her own," Dargis wrote. "All that's missing from this portrait is, well, everything else, including Monroe's personality and inner life, her intelligence, her wit and savvy and tenacity; her interest in — and knowledge of — politics; the work that she put in as an actress and the true depth of her professional ambitions."

That was obviously not a Critic's Pick. Films that our reviewers do recommend this week include "Dead for a Dollar" and "Smile."

Whatever you end up watching, have fun at the movies!

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MOVIE REVIEWS

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A24

'God's Creatures' Review: A Crisis of Conscience

Emily Watson is terrific at telegraphing how a mother's love grinds against her moral code in this atmospheric seaside drama.

By Natalia Winkelman

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Saban Films

'Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon' Review: Escape From New Orleans

This hyper-stylized quasi-superhero movie by Ana Lily Amirpour follows a mental hospital patient with supernatural abilities; it looks a lot more fun than it actually is.

By Beatrice Loayza

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Double Exposure

'From the Hood to the Holler' Review: A Race to Galvanize the Poor

A new documentary revisits the former Kentucky state representative Charles Booker's 2020 campaign to unseat Mitch McConnell in the Senate.

By Concepción de León

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Amazon Prime Video

'Argentina, 1985' Review: All the Prosecutor's Men

Santiago Mitre's impassioned dramatization of the Trial of the Juntas benefits from a gentle evocation of collective memory.

By Natalia Winkelman

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Eliza Morse/Prime Video

'My Best Friend's Exorcism' Review: Like, Totally Satan

A group of high schoolers contend with a friend's demonic possession in this 1980s-set horror-comedy.

By Calum Marsh

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Reid Davenport/POV

'I Didn't See You There' Review: A View From His Seat

The filmmaker Reid Davenport, by turns pensive and irritated, takes viewers inside his life as a disabled person through footage shot entirely from his perspective.

By Nicolas Rapold

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Abramorama

'InHospitable' Review: Fight for Survival

Patients push back on a medical behemoth in this persuasive health care documentary.

By Ben Kenigsberg

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IFC Films

'Vesper' Review: Seeds of Hope

This elegantly visualized dystopian fantasy envelops us in the world of a gifted girl fending for survival with her sickly father.

By Nicolas Rapold

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