Nick Newman

[Review] Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak works as many things: a melodramatic romance; both the recreation of a period and a revival of the way movies have made us perceive it; a genre-jum...

[NYFF Review] Miles Ahead

I don’t know why any film about someone as innovative, unstoppable, and crazy as Miles Davis leaves so little impression, but to begin addressing that question ...

[NYFF Review] Junun

Has the hype around a nearly wordless, 54-minute, India-set documentary ever been so high? This is what happens when Paul Thomas Anderson, a not-unpopular choic...

[NYFF Review] Steve Jobs

Taken as a straight-faced, just-the-facts account of one great man’s amazing achievements, Steve Jobs is a bit daft. For as much as the structure of Danny Boyle...

Nick Newman

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Nick lives in New York with his cats Drenka and Telemachus.