New York Film Festival 64 Round-Up

I tend to overeat; my eyes are bigger than my stomach. I cave to the same overindulgence when it comes to movies, too: if presented the opportunity, I will rot in a chair for an entire day, soaking in what's on the screen. A film festival is a veritable buffet in this regard--movie after movie after movie after movie--and by the time you read this, the New York Film Festival has screened over a hundred of them. But many movies—NAZA, Tender Loving Care, and Once Upon a Time in Harlem, to name but a few—will remain undiscussed in this corner of the woods for the time being because of other commitments. Yet the time constraints imposed by these obligations also offered a silver lining: I got to see some movies I otherwise wouldn’t have sought out, and I got the time to actually reflect on what I saw. 

In the New York Film Festival's three weeks of screenings I met many colleagues, dashed from Lincoln Center to the train to make it to my day job on time (I have a galaxy-shaped-and-colored bruise as the result of a subway stumble to prove it), and sustained myself on PB&J and PopTarts because there's no way in hell I'd pay $20 for a lunch box on the Upper West Side. I also saw some good movies, some pretty bad ones, and a couple of bona fide classics in the making. It was a wild, invigorating, at times exhausting experience, and I'm grateful to have had the chance to participate. Below, I've compiled all of my writing on the festival, including a podcast appearance.

Possible Love — Lee Chang-dong [NYFF '26 Review] | In Review Online

A new film review of Possible Love, directed by Lee Chang-dong, for film review site In Review Online's NYFF 2026 festival coverage.

In Review OnlineEthan J. Rosenberg

Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall — Paul Thomas Anderson [NYFF '26 Review] | In Review Online

A new film review of Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, for film review site In Review Online.

In Review OnlineEthan J. Rosenberg

The Debut — Jesse Eisenberg [NYFF '26 Review] | In Review Online

A new film review of The Debut, directed by Jesse Eisenberg, for film review site In Review Online's 2026 NYFF coverage.

In Review OnlineEthan J. Rosenberg

The 14th — Ava DuVernay [NYFF '26 Review] | In Review Online

A new film review of The 14th, directed by Ava DuVernay, for film review site In Review Online's 2026 NYFF coverage.

In Review OnlineEthan J. Rosenberg

In Review On Mic: The New York Film Festival

In Review On Mic #2: A Dispatch from the New York Film Festival

In Review OnlineIn Review Online and Robert Stinner and Chris Cassingham

Rapture of the Uncanny: An Interview with Heather Landsman on ee

Increasingly, directors are looking back and staying there. I can't blame them; it's hard to look at the present moment with clear eyes. A select few, however, are reaching into the past and bringing it back to now, complicating our understanding of that past and informing our understanding

Ethan J. Rosenberg WeeklyEthan J. Rosenberg

FJORD (2026, Mungiu) [NYFF Review]

I've been hearing about Christian Mungiu since I plugged myself into the arthouse world in the early 2010s, but I never gave myself the time to catch up with his work. A Romanian director, he primarily sets his films there; Fjord, however, follows a Romanian-Norwegian family persecuted for

Ethan J. Rosenberg WeeklyEthan J. Rosenberg