MAY 1
Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)
Martel's first documentary — a decade-in-the-making investigation into the murder of Chaco activist Javier Chocobar. Her first feature since Zama. Cannes 2025 Special Screenings.
RT Critics
94%
Metacritic
81
IMDb
7.3
MAY 1–7
Bellissima
Anna Magnani at her most volcanic — a working-class Roman mother scheming to make her daughter a movie star. Visconti's tragicomic neorealism and one of Magnani's greatest performances. Restoration run May 1–7.
RT Critics
100%
IMDb
7.6
MAY 1
Two Pianos
François Civil, Charlotte Rampling and Nadia Tereszkiewicz in Desplechin's classical-music romantic melodrama. TIFF premiere. Kino Lorber US release May 1.
RT Critics
82%
IMDb
5.7
Lincoln Plaza Cinema · FLC
MAY 8
Silent Friend
Three eras, one ginkgo tree in a German botanical garden — Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux, Luna Wedler and Enrico Delamboye headline Enyedi's Venice 2025 competition entry from the director of On Body and Soul.
RT Critics
100%
Metacritic
89
IMDb
7.6
FLC · IFC Center
MAY 29
Renoir
From the director of Plan 75. Suburban Tokyo 1987 — an 11-year-old girl's inner world as her father dies. Cannes 2025 competition. Film Movement US theatrical.
RT Critics
88%
Metacritic
73
IMDb
6.5
TOP PICK
Two Prosecutors
A KGB/Stalin-era drama set in a Soviet prison. An unapologetically political parable with unavoidable contemporary resonances. Compared to Kafka — precision of a Swiss watch.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
97%
Metacritic
85
IMDb
7.1
"Kafkaesque parable with the precision of a Swiss watch. Unavoidable contemporary resonances."
#2
Palestine 36
Set during the British Mandate era. Charts Palestine's colonial history. Palestine's Oscar entry. Stars Jeremy Irons. Elegantly conceived, sometimes didactic.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
97%
RT Aud
81%
IMDb
7.6
"Proficiently edited. Charts colonial victimhood elegantly."
#3
Chime
A 45-minute horror masterwork from the director of Cure and Pulse. Now playing as a double feature with Serpent's Path. Theatrical only — never streaming.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
100%
IMDb
6.4
"From the master of Cure and Pulse. Theatrical only — see it now or never."
#4
Sirat
From the Spanish-Moroccan filmmaker behind Fire Will Come. Cannes Jury Prize. Available with open captioning.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
91%
Metacritic
85
IMDb
7.0
"Transcendent. A rave-soundtracked pilgrimage into the void — Cannes Jury Prize winner."
#5
Miroirs No. 3
A four-person chamber piece starring Paula Beer as a depressed piano student. Hitchcockian shades of Vertigo. Explores spiritual death, resurrection, and rebirth.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
93%
"A Ravel-ation. Quiet, contemplative — in conversation with Petzold's other works."
#6
Kontinental '25
From the provocative Romanian New Wave director behind Bad Luck Banging. Satirical and formally inventive.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
95%
Metacritic
82
IMDb
6.7
NEW
Amrum
WWII coming-of-age on the island of Amrum, 1945. Stars Diane Kruger. Cannes 2025. From the director of Head-On and The Edge of Heaven. Kino Lorber distribution, NYC exclusive at Quad Cinema.
RT Critics
96%
Metacritic
78
IMDb
7.2
NEW
Eagles of the Republic
Finale of Saleh's Cairo trilogy — Egyptian superstar actor (Fares Fares) caught in a regime-propaganda biopic of el-Sisi. Cannes 2025 competition. From the director of Boy From Heaven.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
73%
Metacritic
70
IMDb
6.7
NEW
Fiume o morte!
A wild historical fiction-documentary hybrid reenacting D'Annunzio's 1919 occupation of Fiume (Rijeka) — the proto-fascist vagabond "poet-king" republic — with modern-day Rijeka locals playing the rebels. IDFA Grand Prix winner.
RT Critics
92%
Metacritic
81
IMDb
8.1
Metrograph · Apr 20, 22, 23
APR 21–27 · 35mm · ROXY
Casablanca
Bogart and Bergman on 35mm for a full week at Roxy — Jack Harlow Selects. The film the line "Here's looking at you, kid" came from. If you haven't seen it projected, this is the reason to.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
99%
IMDb
8.5
"A movie that has transcended the ordinary categories of cinema."
MAY 9–10 · SIRK · ROXY
Imitation of Life
Lana Turner's rising-star actress, her put-upon Black housekeeper (Juanita Moore), and the daughter who wants to pass. Sirk's weeping-all-the-way-home Technicolor masterpiece — arguably the greatest American melodrama ever made.
Ebert
★★★★ Great Movie
RT Critics
92%
IMDb
7.9
"A weeper that earns its tears. Sirk turning Hollywood melodrama into high art."
SAT MAY 2 · 11am · 4K
Farewell My Concubine
Two Peking Opera stars' half-century entanglement — one playing the courtesan to the other's king, their personal and political intimacies colliding through the Cultural Revolution. Gong Li as the brothel-born woman between them. Palme d'Or 1993. New 4K restoration — one screening at 11am.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
85%
IMDb
8.1
"Almost painfully beautiful. Chen Kaige's masterpiece — a tragic, ravishing film."
MAY 1 · METRO
Suzhou River
A Shanghai videographer narrates the obsessive story of a motorcycle courier searching for his lost lover — who may now be a mermaid-costumed bar dancer. Melancholic, sensuous Vertigo-adjacent noir. Defining Sixth Generation masterpiece. One-night Metrograph screening.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
89%
IMDb
7.4
"A dreamy, tragic love poem to a Shanghai that's disappearing."
ENDS APR 23
Crumb
Zwigoff's unsettling, definitive portrait of underground cartoonist R. Crumb and his brothers. On Film Forum's Zwigoff retrospective (Apr 17–23) alongside Ghost World, Louie Bluie, Art School Confidential and the director's cut of Bad Santa.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
99%
IMDb
8.0
"An astonishing, disturbing, brave movie — one of the very best documentaries I have ever seen."
ENDS APR 23
Ghost World
Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi in Daniel Clowes's adaptation of his own suburban-outsider comic. Dry, lonely, a high-water mark of early-'00s American indie. Zwigoff retrospective.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
97%
IMDb
7.4
"One of the best movies of the year. A smart, wickedly funny coming-of-age story."
NEW
It Was Just an Accident
Panahi's clandestine post-prison masterpiece — Cannes 2025 Palme d'Or winner. A mechanic mistakes an ex-interrogator for a ghost from his prison past and kidnaps him. Iran's Oscar Best International Feature contender. NEON release.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
98%
RT Aud
93%
Metacritic
91
IMDb
7.5
"Panahi's most politically enraged film — and his funniest. Palme d'Or triumph."
AMC Empire 25 $IFC Center (select)
NEW
Trouble in Paradise
Lubitsch's pre-Code masterpiece — thieves in love in Paris and Venice. Part of Film Forum's The Lubitsch Touch retrospective (from Apr 14): Monte Carlo, Shop Around the Corner, One Hour with You, Smiling Lieutenant, Bluebeard's 8th Wife, Merry Widow, Design for Living, Cluny Brown, Ninotchka, Heaven Can Wait, To Be or Not to Be — mostly 35mm.
Ebert
★★★★
IMDb
8.0
RT Critics
100%
"The Lubitsch Touch at its most sparkling — the template for romantic sophistication."
NEW
Blue Velvet (4K Restoration)
Lynch's neo-noir masterpiece in a new 40th anniversary 4K restoration. Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper. A rite of passage for anyone serious about cinema.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
94%
IMDb
7.7
Ebert: "Lynch is like the boy who stuck his finger into the wound to see what it felt like. Blue Velvet is that finger."
NEW
The Christophers
Art-world heist comedy. Stars Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, James Corden. TIFF debut to rave reviews. NY/LA April 10, wide April 17. NYT Critic's Pick.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
97%
Metacritic
73
NEW
Hamlet
Shakespeare reimagined in contemporary London. Riz Ahmed stars as the haunted prince moving between Hindu temples and homeless camps. Telluride premiere. Vertical release Apr 10.
RT Critics
72%
IMDb
6.4
"Fueled by Riz Ahmed's electrifying turn, this gritty, streamlined Hamlet boldly reimagines the classic tragedy." — RT consensus
Yes
From the provocative director of Synonyms (Berlin Golden Bear) and Ahed's Knee. Hebrew/French with English subtitles.
Ebert
★★★½
IMDb
6.5
Ebert: "Riotously prods at Israel's self-image." — Post-Oct 7 moral reckoning.
The Stranger
Ozon's adaptation of Camus' L'Étranger. Stars Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Denis Lavant. Won César for Best Supporting Actor.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
88%
IMDb
7.2
The Blue Trail
Berlinale Silver Bear winner. A dystopian Amazon odyssey about a 77-year-old woman refusing to be shipped to a retirement colony. From the director of Neon Bull.
RT Critics
93%
IMDb
7.1
Pillion
Cannes Un Certain Regard standout. Intense British queer romance on the back of a motorcycle.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
86%
IMDb
7.0
Dead Lover
An absurd Frankenstein riff shot on a black box theater set with miniatures, stop-motion, and 16mm. Special "Stink-O-Vision" screenings.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
85%
Metacritic
66
IMDb
5.6
"Quietly radical, palpable chemistry between the married real-life stars."
Marc by Sofia
Sofia Coppola's intimate portrait of Marc Jacobs. From one of America's most distinctive filmmakers — a visually stunning doc about fashion, friendship, and creative legacy.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
73%
Metacritic
59
Fantasy Life
Indie dramedy with Amanda Peet. A romantic comedy about smart, neurotic New Yorkers.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
84%
IMDb
7.0
"Slight but pleasing. Peet's performance is the best part."
Nitehawk Prospect Park
undertone
Sundance premiere. Themes of grief and lack of faith embedded in a sonic and visual nightmare. One of the most chill-inducing final acts in recent memory.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
72%
Metacritic
66
IMDb
6.6
"Sonic and visual nightmare about grief. One of the most chill-inducing final acts in recent memory."
Forbidden Fruits
Sapphic witch thriller starring Lili Reinhart. SXSW premiere. Aggressively campy with divine femininity themes.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
76%
Metacritic
54
IMDb
6.5
Alpha
From the Palme d'Or-winning director of Titane. Stars Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim. Divisive — bold auteur vision but critics split.
Ebert
★½
RT Critics
57%
Metacritic
50
IMDb
5.9
"Panned. Despite the pedigree, critics found it lacking."
NEW
In the Mood for Love
Two neighbors (Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung) discover their spouses are having an affair and form their own achingly restrained, unconsummated intimacy in 1962 Hong Kong. Peak erotics-of-restraint cinema.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
93%
"The greatest romance of the 21st century. Tony Leung's finest performance."
Metrograph · Wed Apr 22 4:30pmFilm at Lincoln Center · Sat May 2 6:00pm, Thu May 7 9:00pm
NEW
Flowers of Shanghai
Inside the lantern-lit brothels of 1890s Shanghai, courtesans and their patrons (Tony Leung) negotiate jealousy, contracts and slow-burning desire in long opium-haze takes. Hypnotic, achingly sensuous.
RT Critics
97%
"The most beautifully photographed film of the 1990s. Every frame glows."
Film at Lincoln Center · Fri May 1 6:00pm, Tue May 5 12:30pm
NEW
2046
Tony Leung's Chow Mo-wan drifts through charged affairs (Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Faye Wong) while writing an erotic sci-fi novel. Continuation of In the Mood for Love's themes — dense with desire, smoke, and regret.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
86%
"Wong's densest, most heartbroken film. A memory palace built from silk and smoke."
Film at Lincoln Center · Sat May 2 8:45pm, Tue May 5 3:00pm
NEW
The Hand
Wong Kar-wai's segment from Eros, in its standalone extended cut. Gong Li as a high-end Hong Kong courtesan who teaches a young tailor (Chang Chen) about desire — fingers, silk, the cut of cloth against skin. Arguably Wong's most nakedly erotic film.
Ebert
★★★
"The most erotic WKW short. Gong Li smolders through silk and regret."
Metrograph · Sun Apr 19 4:30pm
NEW
Lust, Caution
A young resistance agent in WWII Shanghai seduces and plots to assassinate a ruthless collaborator (Tony Leung). NC-17 sex scenes among the most explicit in any prestige film. Venice Golden Lion winner.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
73%
"Leung's most dangerous performance — the predator who knows he's being hunted."
Film at Lincoln Center · Wed Apr 29 12:30pm, Mon May 4 6:00pm
NEW
The Grandmaster
Ip Man (Tony Leung) and Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi) share one of the most erotically charged non-touches in 21st century cinema — a kung fu film that is secretly a romance of thwarted desire.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
77%
"Wong's most physical film. Leung trained for three years — it shows."
Film at Lincoln Center · Tue May 5 9:00pm, Thu May 7 2:30pm
NEW
Cyclo
A Saigon cyclo driver falls into a crime gang run by a silent, brooding poet-pimp (Tony Leung) who grooms the driver's sister for sex work. Fever-dream eroticism. Venice Golden Lion winner.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
89%
"Leung as a mute, brooding poet-criminal. Unforgettable."
Film at Lincoln Center · Wed Apr 29 3:45pm, Fri May 1 8:30pm
NEW
Chungking Express
Two lovelorn Hong Kong cops (Tony Leung + Takeshi Kaneshiro) and the mysterious women who orbit them. More sensual than explicit — Faye Wong's stalkery romance with Leung is pure longing.
Ebert
★★★★
"The film that made the world fall in love with Wong Kar-wai. And with Tony Leung."
Film at Lincoln Center · Wed Apr 29 6:30pm, Thu May 7 12:15pm
Tonight · Wed Apr 22
Everything playing somewhere in NYC tonight. Metrograph listings first (your membership).
METROGRAPH · your membership
NEW
In the Mood for Love
Two neighbors (Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung) discover their spouses are having an affair and form their own achingly restrained, unconsummated intimacy in 1962 Hong Kong. Peak erotics-of-restraint cinema.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
93%
"The greatest romance of the 21st century. Tony Leung's finest performance."
Metrograph · Wed Apr 22 4:30pmFilm at Lincoln Center · Sat May 2 6:00pm, Thu May 7 9:00pm
NEW
The Hand
Wong Kar-wai's segment from Eros, in its standalone extended cut. Gong Li as a high-end Hong Kong courtesan who teaches a young tailor (Chang Chen) about desire — fingers, silk, the cut of cloth against skin. Arguably Wong's most nakedly erotic film.
Ebert
★★★
"The most erotic WKW short. Gong Li smolders through silk and regret."
Metrograph · Sun Apr 19 4:30pm
NEW
Fiume o morte!
A wild historical fiction-documentary hybrid reenacting D'Annunzio's 1919 occupation of Fiume (Rijeka) — the proto-fascist vagabond "poet-king" republic — with modern-day Rijeka locals playing the rebels. IDFA Grand Prix winner.
RT Critics
92%
Metacritic
81
IMDb
8.1
Metrograph · Apr 20, 22, 23
TONIGHT · METRO
Stalker
Tarkovsky's post-apocalyptic odyssey into the Zone. A writer and a scientist follow the Stalker through a forbidden landscape where a room grants wishes. One of cinema's great mystical films.
Ebert
★★★★ Great Movie
RT
100%
IMDb
8.2
TONIGHT · METRO
A Short Film About Killing
Kieślowski's devastating expansion of Decalogue V — a young drifter's senseless murder and the capital punishment that follows. Bleak, airless, essential. Precursor to A Short Film About Love. Kieślowski retro.
Ebert
★★★★
RT
96%
IMDb
8.1
LINCOLN CENTER · Pialat retro opens tonight
PIALAT · APR 22–28
À nos amours
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne (Sandrine Bonnaire's breakout — César for Most Promising Actress) drifts from boy to boy in a suffocating family. Pialat as her terrifying father. Raw, merciless, and one of the essential French films of the 1980s.
Ebert
★★★★
RT
96%
IMDb
7.5
"A work of searing intimacy — the kind of truth-telling cinema is rarely brave enough to attempt."
PIALAT · APR 22–28
L'enfance nue (Naked Childhood)
Pialat's uncompromising debut. A troubled 10-year-old boy is shuttled between foster families in industrial northern France. Produced by Truffaut; denounced by some, canonized by others. The template for his lifelong cinema of emotional cruelty and tenderness.
RT
100%
IMDb
7.4
PIALAT · APR 22–28
Graduate First (Passe ton bac d'abord)
A group of bored teenagers in Lens, in depressed northern France, stuck at the threshold of adulthood with nowhere to go. Pialat's loose, almost-documentary portrait of provincial youth — forebearers of Assayas and the Dardennes.
RT
100%
IMDb
7.3
PIALAT · APR 22 · 4K US PREMIERE
La maison des bois
Pialat's 7-hour WWI-era TV masterpiece about a Parisian boy taken in by a rural couple while his parents are at the front. Never before in US theaters. The retrospective's centerpiece — a 4K first-US-theatrical premiere.
RT
N/A
IMDb
7.9
FILM FORUM · Zwigoff retro ends tomorrow
ENDS APR 23
Crumb
Zwigoff's unsettling, definitive portrait of underground cartoonist R. Crumb and his brothers. On Film Forum's Zwigoff retrospective (Apr 17–23) alongside Ghost World, Louie Bluie, Art School Confidential and the director's cut of Bad Santa.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
99%
IMDb
8.0
"An astonishing, disturbing, brave movie — one of the very best documentaries I have ever seen."
ENDS APR 23
Ghost World
Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi in Daniel Clowes's adaptation of his own suburban-outsider comic. Dry, lonely, a high-water mark of early-'00s American indie. Zwigoff retrospective.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
97%
IMDb
7.4
"One of the best movies of the year. A smart, wickedly funny coming-of-age story."
TOP PICK
Two Prosecutors
A KGB/Stalin-era drama set in a Soviet prison. An unapologetically political parable with unavoidable contemporary resonances. Compared to Kafka — precision of a Swiss watch.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
97%
Metacritic
85
IMDb
7.1
"Kafkaesque parable with the precision of a Swiss watch. Unavoidable contemporary resonances."
#6
Kontinental '25
From the provocative Romanian New Wave director behind Bad Luck Banging. Satirical and formally inventive.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
95%
Metacritic
82
IMDb
6.7
IFC CENTER
OPENS TODAY · APR 22
Maintenance Artist
Doc portrait opens Apr 22.
IMDb
7.4
NEW
Blue Velvet (4K Restoration)
Lynch's neo-noir masterpiece in a new 40th anniversary 4K restoration. Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper. A rite of passage for anyone serious about cinema.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
94%
IMDb
7.7
Ebert: "Lynch is like the boy who stuck his finger into the wound to see what it felt like. Blue Velvet is that finger."
#4
Sirat
From the Spanish-Moroccan filmmaker behind Fire Will Come. Cannes Jury Prize. Available with open captioning.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
91%
Metacritic
85
IMDb
7.0
"Transcendent. A rave-soundtracked pilgrimage into the void — Cannes Jury Prize winner."
DOUBLE FEATURE
Chime + Serpent's Path
45-minute horror masterwork from the master of Cure and Pulse, paired with Serpent's Path. Theatrical only — never streaming.
Ebert
★★★½
RT
100%
ROXY · 35mm run
APR 21–27 · 35mm · ROXY
Casablanca
Bogart and Bergman on 35mm for a full week at Roxy — Jack Harlow Selects. The film the line "Here's looking at you, kid" came from. If you haven't seen it projected, this is the reason to.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
99%
IMDb
8.5
"A movie that has transcended the ordinary categories of cinema."
#5
Miroirs No. 3
A four-person chamber piece starring Paula Beer as a depressed piano student. Hitchcockian shades of Vertigo. Explores spiritual death, resurrection, and rebirth.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
93%
"A Ravel-ation. Quiet, contemplative — in conversation with Petzold's other works."
ANTHOLOGY · Pierre Clémenti tribute
TONIGHT · ANTHOLOGY
The Howl / L'Urlo
Tinto Brass's pre-Caligula freakout — a runaway bride and a counterculture prophet barrel through libidinous tableaux of sex, death, and absurdity. Anthology's Pierre Clémenti tribute reclaims Brass as the psychedelic erotomaniac he was.
IMDb
6.8
🎬 Quad Cinema — Now Playing
34 W 13th St, Greenwich Village — art house & indie films.
NEW
Bunnylovr
Now playing at Quad Cinema.
Ebert
★★½
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
Metrograph — Now Playing & Upcoming
7 Ludlow St, LES · 🚇 ~28 min · Full calendar →
Bar, restaurant, 35mm projection. One of NYC's best cinemas.
Series in rotation:
· Kieślowski retrospective (through Apr 26 · Decalogue, Three Colors, Double Life of Véronique, Short Film About Love/Killing, Camera Buff, The Scar) · Rialto Report / Radley Metzger (Therese and Isabelle, The Image, Naked Came the Stranger, Maraschino Cherry) · Nina Menkes retro (May 2 · Queen of Diamonds 4K, The Bloody Child) · Lucrecia Martel presents The Headless Woman (Apr 25, 4K) · 35mm rotation (Mulholland Drive, Chinatown, Godard's Made in U.S.A.)
FRI MAY 1
Suzhou River
A Shanghai videographer narrates the obsessive story of a motorcycle courier searching for his lost lover — who may now be a mermaid-costumed bar dancer. Melancholic, sensuous Vertigo-adjacent noir. Banned in China; defining Sixth Generation masterpiece.
Ebert
★★★
RT
89%
IMDb
7.4
SAT MAY 2 · 11am · 4K
Farewell My Concubine
Two Peking Opera stars' half-century entanglement — one playing the courtesan to the other's king, colliding through the Cultural Revolution. Gong Li between them. Palme d'Or 1993. New 4K — one 11am screening.
Ebert
★★★½
RT
85%
IMDb
8.1
NEW
Fiume o morte!
New Croatian film screening this weekend at Metrograph. From director Igor Bezinović.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
NEW
Decalogue (Kieślowski)
Continuing the complete Kieślowski retrospective — Decalogue Part 8 and Program A screening this week at Metrograph.
Ebert
★★★★
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
NEW
In the Mood for Love
Two neighbors (Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung) discover their spouses are having an affair and form their own achingly restrained, unconsummated intimacy in 1962 Hong Kong. Peak erotics-of-restraint cinema.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
93%
"The greatest romance of the 21st century. Tony Leung's finest performance."
Metrograph · Wed Apr 22 4:30pmFilm at Lincoln Center · Sat May 2 6:00pm, Thu May 7 9:00pm
NEW
The Hand
Wong Kar-wai's segment from Eros, in its standalone extended cut. Gong Li as a high-end Hong Kong courtesan who teaches a young tailor (Chang Chen) about desire — fingers, silk, the cut of cloth against skin. Arguably Wong's most nakedly erotic film.
Ebert
★★★
"The most erotic WKW short. Gong Li smolders through silk and regret."
Metrograph · Sun Apr 19 4:30pm
Paris Theatre
4 W 58th St · 🚶 25 min · Netflix-operated · Free screenings + curated repertory · Full calendar →
Oldest single-screen in NYC. 571 seats. 35mm + 4K restorations. Most screenings are FREE with RSVP.
Series at a glance:
· All the Rage (BEEF companion — Phantom Thread, The Handmaiden, Michael Clayton, The Informant!, Burn After Reading, Second Mother) ends Apr 21 · Dangerous Games: Cinema of Survival starts Apr 24 w/ Apex (Charlize Theron) release · Academy Museum Branch Selects ongoing · TONIGHT Apr 19 6:50pm: Barton Fink w/ John Turturro intro, 35mm
OPENS APR 24
Apex
Netflix-Paris limited theatrical for Apex. Charlize Theron running for her life in the woods. Anchors the Paris's new Dangerous Games: Cinema of Survival series (Apr 24–30) alongside classic hunt-or-be-hunted titles.
RT
TBD
MON APR 27
Rocco and His Brothers
Alain Delon as the gentle brother in a Southern Italian family unraveling after they move to Milan. Visconti's grand neorealist epic — family, boxing, prostitution, murder. Academy Museum Branch Selects — selected by the Writers Branch.
Ebert
★★★★
RT
92%
IMDb
8.1
Paris Theatre · Mon Apr 27
MAY 3 · Q&A
Last Summer
NY premiere of the new restoration. Three teenagers on Fire Island — a sun-drenched coming-of-age that turns dark. Stars Richard Thomas, Barbara Hershey. Q&A with Richard Thomas, moderated by Larry Karaszewski — Sun May 3 at 5pm.
Ebert
★★★★
IMDb
7.0
Paris Theatre · Sun May 3 5:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center
165 W 65th St · 🚇 ~25 min · Full schedule →
ND/NF wrapped Apr 19 · Up next: Maurice Pialat retro (Apr 22–28) · The Grandmaster: Tony Leung (Apr 29 – May 7) · NY African Film Festival (May 6–12) · Open Roads Italian Cinema (May 28 – Jun 4)
PIALAT · APR 22–28
À nos amours
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne (Sandrine Bonnaire's breakout — César for Most Promising Actress) drifts from boy to boy in a suffocating family. Pialat as her terrifying father. Raw, merciless, and one of the essential French films of the 1980s.
Ebert
★★★★
RT
96%
IMDb
7.5
"A work of searing intimacy — the kind of truth-telling cinema is rarely brave enough to attempt."
PIALAT · APR 22–28
L'enfance nue (Naked Childhood)
Pialat's uncompromising debut. A troubled 10-year-old boy is shuttled between foster families in industrial northern France. Produced by Truffaut; denounced by some, canonized by others. The template for his lifelong cinema of emotional cruelty and tenderness.
RT
100%
IMDb
7.4
PIALAT · APR 22–28
Graduate First (Passe ton bac d'abord)
A group of bored teenagers in Lens, in depressed northern France, stuck at the threshold of adulthood with nowhere to go. Pialat's loose, almost-documentary portrait of provincial youth — forebearers of Assayas and the Dardennes.
RT
100%
IMDb
7.3
PIALAT · APR 22 · 4K US PREMIERE
La maison des bois
Pialat's 7-hour WWI-era TV masterpiece about a Parisian boy taken in by a rural couple while his parents are at the front. Never before in US theaters. The retrospective's centerpiece — a 4K first-US-theatrical premiere.
RT
N/A
IMDb
7.9
MAY 6–12 · FESTIVAL
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New York African Film Festival
The 32nd edition of Film at Lincoln Center & African Film Associate's flagship festival — a week of features, shorts and docs from across the continent. Full programming typically announced ~2 weeks before opening.
Festival
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Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
Silver anniversary edition of FLC's annual Italian cinema showcase — a week of US premieres, buzz titles from Venice/Rome, and retrospectives. Full lineup announced in May.
Festival
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NEW
In the Mood for Love
Two neighbors (Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung) discover their spouses are having an affair and form their own achingly restrained, unconsummated intimacy in 1962 Hong Kong. Peak erotics-of-restraint cinema.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
93%
"The greatest romance of the 21st century. Tony Leung's finest performance."
Metrograph · Wed Apr 22 4:30pmFilm at Lincoln Center · Sat May 2 6:00pm, Thu May 7 9:00pm
NEW
Flowers of Shanghai
Inside the lantern-lit brothels of 1890s Shanghai, courtesans and their patrons (Tony Leung) negotiate jealousy, contracts and slow-burning desire in long opium-haze takes. Hypnotic, achingly sensuous.
RT Critics
97%
"The most beautifully photographed film of the 1990s. Every frame glows."
Film at Lincoln Center · Fri May 1 6:00pm, Tue May 5 12:30pm
NEW
2046
Tony Leung's Chow Mo-wan drifts through charged affairs (Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Faye Wong) while writing an erotic sci-fi novel. Continuation of In the Mood for Love's themes — dense with desire, smoke, and regret.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
86%
"Wong's densest, most heartbroken film. A memory palace built from silk and smoke."
Film at Lincoln Center · Sat May 2 8:45pm, Tue May 5 3:00pm
NEW
Lust, Caution
A young resistance agent in WWII Shanghai seduces and plots to assassinate a ruthless collaborator (Tony Leung). NC-17 sex scenes among the most explicit in any prestige film. Venice Golden Lion winner.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
73%
"Leung's most dangerous performance — the predator who knows he's being hunted."
Film at Lincoln Center · Wed Apr 29 12:30pm, Mon May 4 6:00pm
NEW
The Grandmaster
Ip Man (Tony Leung) and Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi) share one of the most erotically charged non-touches in 21st century cinema — a kung fu film that is secretly a romance of thwarted desire.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
77%
"Wong's most physical film. Leung trained for three years — it shows."
Film at Lincoln Center · Tue May 5 9:00pm, Thu May 7 2:30pm
NEW
Cyclo
A Saigon cyclo driver falls into a crime gang run by a silent, brooding poet-pimp (Tony Leung) who grooms the driver's sister for sex work. Fever-dream eroticism. Venice Golden Lion winner.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
89%
"Leung as a mute, brooding poet-criminal. Unforgettable."
Film at Lincoln Center · Wed Apr 29 3:45pm, Fri May 1 8:30pm
NEW
Chungking Express
Two lovelorn Hong Kong cops (Tony Leung + Takeshi Kaneshiro) and the mysterious women who orbit them. More sensual than explicit — Faye Wong's stalkery romance with Leung is pure longing.
Ebert
★★★★
"The film that made the world fall in love with Wong Kar-wai. And with Tony Leung."
Film at Lincoln Center · Wed Apr 29 6:30pm, Thu May 7 12:15pm
IFC Center
323 6th Ave (Waverly/W3rd) · Greenwich Village · Full schedule →
Series running May:
· Late Night Favorites Spring 2026 (through May 30) · DOC NYC Selects Spring (through May 5) · Modern Romance: Renegade Rom-Coms (May 8–14 · Bringing Up Baby, The Graduate, Harold and Maude, Tootsie, Polyester, Bound, A New Leaf, Modern Romance) · Cruising the Movies 2026
THROUGH APR 25
Blue Velvet (4K Restoration)
Lynch's neo-noir masterpiece in new 40th-anniversary 4K. Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper. Closes Apr 25 at IFC.
Ebert
★★★½
RT
94%
IMDb
7.7
NOW PLAYING
Sirat
Spanish-Moroccan director Oliver Laxe's Cannes Jury Prize winner — a rave-soundtracked pilgrimage into the void. Available with open captioning.
Ebert
★★★★
RT
91%
MC
85
DOUBLE FEATURE
Chime + Serpent's Path
45-minute horror masterwork from the master of Cure and Pulse, paired with Serpent's Path. Theatrical only — never streaming.
Ebert
★★★½
RT
100%
NOW PLAYING
The Christophers
Soderbergh's art-world heist comedy — Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, James Corden. NYT Critic's Pick.
Ebert
★★★
RT
97%
MC
80
IMDb
6.3
OPENS TODAY · APR 22
Maintenance Artist
Doc portrait opens Apr 22.
IMDb
7.4
OPENS APR 24 · RE-RELEASE
Millennium Actress
Kon's hall-of-mirrors love letter to 20th-century Japanese cinema — a reclusive actress retelling her life through the films she starred in. Essential.
RT
93%
Aud
90%
MC
70
IMDb
7.8
MAY 1 · RETRO
Blow Out
John Travolta as a movie-sound man who accidentally records an assassination. De Palma's paranoid masterwork.
Ebert
★★★★
RT
86%
IMDb
7.4
MAY 9 · RETRO
Bringing Up Baby
Hepburn + Grant + a leopard. Anchor of IFC's Modern Romance: Renegade Rom-Coms series (May 8–14).
Ebert
★★★★
RT
93%
IMDb
7.8
MAY 10 · RETRO
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Almodóvar's candy-colored Stockholm-syndrome romance. Antonio Banderas + Victoria Abril. Part of Renegade Rom-Coms.
Ebert
★★★½
RT
70%
IMDb
7.0
MAY 29
Renoir
From the director of Plan 75. Suburban Tokyo 1987 — an 11-year-old girl's inner world as her father dies. Cannes 2025 competition.
RT
88%
MC
73
IMDb
6.5
APR 29+ · RETRO
Departures
Oscar-winning tale of an out-of-work cellist who becomes a ceremonial preparer of the dead.
Ebert
★★★★ Great Movie
RT
80%
IMDb
8.0
Roxy Cinema
2 6th Ave (Tribeca) · 🚕 ~30 min · Full calendar →
House style:
· Free with RSVP for most classics · 35mm projection · Jack Harlow Selects series · monthly series (Peculiar Puppets, Doc'n Roll). Programming runs Manhattan-edgy — indie premieres alongside classic 35mm.
APR 21–27 · MAY 2 · 35mm
Casablanca
Bogart & Bergman. The reason "Here's looking at you, kid" has lived in the language for 80 years. One of the greatest scripts ever written, projected on 35mm for a full week.
Ebert
★★★★
RT
99%
IMDb
8.5
"A movie that has transcended the ordinary categories of cinema."
APR 22–28
Miroirs No. 3
Petzold's four-person chamber piece. Paula Beer as a depressed piano student. Hitchcockian shades of Vertigo. Spiritual death, resurrection, rebirth.
Ebert
★★★
RT
93%
APR 24–27
Marc by Sofia
Sofia Coppola's intimate documentary portrait of Marc Jacobs. Limited theatrical.
Ebert
★★★
RT
73%
MC
59
WED APR 29
All the Mornings of the World
17th-century viola da gamba master Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle) vs his ambitious student Marin Marais (Gérard Depardieu). Forbidden longing and the erotics of music and mourning.
Ebert
★★★½
RT
91%
MAY 9–10 · SIRK
Imitation of Life
Lana Turner's rising-star actress, her put-upon Black housekeeper (Juanita Moore), and the daughter who wants to pass. Sirk's weeping-all-the-way-home Technicolor masterpiece — arguably the greatest American melodrama ever made.
Ebert
★★★★
RT
92%
IMDb
7.9
MAY 6, 9 · 35mm
Fear
Mark Wahlberg's unhinged boyfriend terrorizes Reese Witherspoon's good-girl teen. Trashy, glossy '90s erotic-thriller canon — Foley's follow-up to Glengarry.
RT
41%
IMDb
6.1
APR 25 – MAY 1 · DOC
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
Music doc on the "fifth Beatle" keyboard genius — sideman to Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, The Stones, and the Beatles. Roxy run Apr 25 – May 1.
RT
TBD
AMC / Regal — Now Playing
AMC Lincoln Square, Empire 25, 84th St, Orpheum 7, Harlem 9 · Regal Union Square, Essex Crossing, Battery Park — focusing on foreign, indie & notable films.
NOW PLAYING
Dhurandhar: The Revenge
A RAW operative returns to Delhi, avenging the 26/11 Mumbai attacks while confronting corrupt officials and a ruthless ISI Major. The sequel to 2025's Dhurandhar, it has become the highest-grossing Indian film ever in North America.
RT Critics
38%
RT Audience
95%
IMDb
8.6
AMC Empire 25
4K · NOW PLAYING
The Killer (1989)
A contract killer (Chow Yun-fat) accidentally blinds a nightclub singer during a job. Determined to pay for her sight-restoring surgery, he takes one final contract — as a detective (Danny Lee) closes in. John Woo's operatic masterpiece of heroic bloodshed, screening in a new 4K restoration with a post-film interview with Woo.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
98%
IMDb
7.9
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
Regal Battery Park
NOW PLAYING
ChaO
In a near-future Shanghai where humans and mermaids coexist, mild-mannered shipping engineer Stephan is suddenly proposed to by mermaid princess Chao. As their unlikely romance deepens, a tragic accident threatens the fragile peace between their two species. Produced by Studio 4°C, distributed by GKIDS.
RT Critics
100%
IMDb
6.9
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
Regal Battery Park
NOW PLAYING
Exit 8
A commuter is trapped in an endless, sterile underground subway corridor governed by one rule: spot any anomaly, turn back immediately — miss one, and something terrible happens. Based on the viral 2023 video game; premiered in Cannes Midnight section 2025 to an 8-minute standing ovation. Neon release.
IMDb
6.4
Regal Essex Crossing
Regal Battery Park
NOW PLAYING
Alpha
A coming-of-age body-horror set in 1980s France about stigma, adolescence, and disease. From the director of Titane and Raw (Neon).
Ebert
★½
RT Critics
56%
IMDb
5.9
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NOW PLAYING
Project Hail Mary
Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes alone in a spacecraft billions of miles from Earth with no memory — and pieces together he's on a solo mission to find the source of an organism threatening the Sun. As he does, he makes an extraordinary interstellar contact. Based on Andy Weir's bestselling novel; $317M worldwide.
Ebert
★★½
RT Critics
95%
RT Audience
96%
IMDb
8.4
Metacritic
77
AMC Lincoln Square (IMAX)
AMC Empire 25 (IMAX/Dolby)
AMC 84th St
AMC Orpheum 7
AMC Harlem 9
Regal Union Square
Regal Battery Park
NOW PLAYING
Wuthering Heights (2026)
Emerald Fennell's stylized adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic, starring Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. Divisive, lavish, WB release.
Ebert
★★
RT Critics
57%
RT Audience
76%
IMDb
6.2
Metacritic
55
AMC Lincoln Square
NEW
The Drama
Playing everywhere across NYC — AMC, Regal, Alamo, Quad, and more.
Ebert
★½
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
You, Me & Tuscany
Romantic comedy starring Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page. Universal wide release in 3,100+ theaters.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
Faces of Death
Horror reimagining of the 1978 cult classic. Stars Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery. Opening on 1,600+ screens.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
Beast
MMA action drama starring Russell Crowe. Lionsgate wide release.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
Hoppers
Wide release playing across all major NYC multiplexes.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
Hunting Matthew Nichols
Playing at AMC Empire, AMC Kips Bay, Regal Union Square, and Alamo Drafthouse.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
Newborn
Playing at AMC Empire 25, AMC 34th Street, AMC Kips Bay, and AMC Village 7.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Animated sequel. Wide release across all major NYC theaters.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
They Will Kill You
Playing at AMC Empire 25, AMC 34th Street, Regal Times Square, Regal Union Square.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
Legends of the Lost Ark
Playing at AMC Empire 25, Regal Times Square, Regal Essex Crossing, Regal Union Square.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NEW
Scream 7
Playing at AMC Empire 25. Latest installment in the slasher franchise.
Ebert
TBD
RT Critics
TBD
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square 13
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
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