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The word disruptor is a vividly descriptive one, and it’s almost always applied to an individual. But it doesn’t have to be. Take the rule-busting, category-smashing, one-of-a-kind-because-you’ve-never-seen-anything-of-its-kind “You Can See Everything,” a movie that in one weekend has turned the movie landscape topsy-turvy.

Two years before a frame of “Michael” was shot, Jaafar Jackson wrote down a list of goals. One was to beat “Bohemian Rhapsody” and cross $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

“You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s A24 doc that made for an explosive secret screening in Telluride, follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes during the 34 days before she reported to prison and keeps rolling long after. It just played the New York Film Festival and carries something no nonfiction film has pulled…

“Behemoth!,” Tony Gilroy’s first feature as a director since “The Bourne Legacy” in 2012, world-premiered on Friday night at Alice Tully Hall as the centerpiece selection of the New York Film Festival. Pascal plays Alex Serian, a former child prodigy from a family of Los Angeles studio musicians who returns home after 20 years on…

In New York Film Festival Centerpiece“Behemoth!,” writer/director Tony Gilroy has created a delicately calibrated film about a cellist (Pedro Pascal) in a midlife crisis. The movie played well at a packed Alice Tully Hall, and afterparty revelers were mildly upbeat.

With the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals in the rearview mirror and the New York Film Festival kicking off on Friday, we should have a pretty good idea of what this year’s awards race will look like.

Paolo Strippoli‘s “The Spiral” has been designated as Italy’s candidate in the best international feature film category of the 2027 Academy Awards.

The question everyone asks at Telluride: “What is the Friday Patron Screening?” They usually find out at Friday’s Patron Brunch, high in the mountains. The answer: Venice breakout and inevitable Oscar contender, “Wild Horse Nine” (Searchlight), written and directed by Martin McDonagh. Telluride tributee Sandra Hüller (Mubi’s “Rose” and “Fatherland”) attended, as well as Jesse Eisenberg,…

John Malkovich could finally have an Oscar secret weapon, and his name is Martin McDonagh.