New York Film Critics Awards Articles

FACES Review Pt.1. [Photo: Gena Rowlands as the prostitute Jeannie.] Faces' drama failed to move me not because of either the film's plot, however predictable at times, or conventional set of characters. Faces' chief handicap is director-writer John Cassavetes, who apparently was too enamored of his own anti-Hollywood brilliance to let a mere story and a handful of distraught human beings get in the way [...]

Julianne Moore, Far from Heaven For decades, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards have been considered a precursor of the Academy Awards. Movies, performers, directors — and later cinematographers and screenwriters — singled out by the NYFCC usually have gone on to receive Oscar nominations, oftentimes the golden statuette itself. The New York critics awards also have the reputation of being "snooty" and "artsy." [...]

Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Margin Call Meryl Streep Record-Breaking Best Actress Winner: New York Critics 2011 Awards J.C. Chandor's Margin Call, featuring an all-star cast that includes Zachary Quinto, Jeremy Irons, Penn Badgley, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, and Kevin Spacey, was the Best First Film. Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, bypassed by the Academy last year, was the Best Documentary. The Best Screenplay Award [...]

Meryl Streep, Anthony Head in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady The most curious thing about Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist winning the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Film and Best Director awards is that 85 years ago this "innovative" work would have had little-to-no novelty value. It's in black and white, it's (mostly) silent, and it features a handsome, mustached, hammy actor. In that regard, [...]