NYFF 2024 Film Review: Festival Dispatch

Welcome to my dispatch from this year’s New York Film Festival. Like always, I won’t be writing full reviews of everything I see at the festival, but this year has plenty of notable features worth at least a quick write-up: Jia Zhangke’s abstract romance, Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating magnum opus, Steve McQueen’s wartime drama, and RaMell Ross’s first-person Colson Whitehead adaptation. Here are the capsule reviews for Caught By the Tides, Megalopolis, Blitz, and Nickel Boys.