“Maria” doesn’t come together as neatly (or completely) as Larraín’s “Spencer” and “Jackie,” but my god, Angelia Jolie crafts a transcendent performance as opera legend Maria Callas. She’s magnificent and shattering. #Venezia81 mashable.com/article/maria-…

BEST DIRECTOR: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

SPECIAL AWARD: To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

STUDENT PRIZES: Alexander Swift (Undergraduate, Vassar) and Drew Smith (Graduate, NYU)

BEST FILM: The Brutalist

"Carry-On" is a very good action-thriller throwback that knows precisely how to execute its familiar formula. More of these, please, Netflix. thedailybeast.com/obsessed/carry…

Thrilled New York Film Critics Circle could award the (still undistributed) doc “No Other Land.” Filmmakers Basel Adra Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor sent a powerful statement via Kirsten Johnson that mentioned lovia david ehrlich & myself. Sending our love & support right back🇵🇸

Last New York Film Critics Circle award of the night is best picture to Brady Corbet for THE BRUTALIST, presented by Robert Pattinson, who starred 10 years ago in Corbet’s first film as director, THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER

Brady Corbet ends his New York Film Critics Circle acceptance speech for Best Picture (“The Brutalist”) with “It’s time to distribute No Other Land” 🇵🇸

Two more pics from last night’s New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner: Robert Pattinson & his enviable jawline (presenting best film to Brady Corbet for THE BRUTALIST); and Mike Leigh (I may have led the standing ovation) presenting best actress to a glowing Marianne Jean Baptiste for HARD TRUTHS

Along with the warm, funny intros, the heartfelt, funny, and philosophical acceptance speeches, and the good company at New York Film Critics Circle banquet, I greatly enjoyed Stephen Garrett's selection of radio clips from early banquets, especially Jean Renoir describing Grand Illusion as...

Payal Kapadia accepts the Best International Film award for ‘All We Imagine As Light’. “Jodie Foster has seen our movie…twice!” #NYFCC90

Jim Jarmusch remarks on LA wildfires before presenting NYFCC’s Best Screenplay award to Sean Baker for Anora. #NYFCC #NYFCC90

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024 A video countdown vimeo.com/1046284152

We join our colleagues in Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics, and Boston Society of Film Critics in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.