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Former senior editor at Gold Derby. Currently on the lookout for new job opportunities while I pursue writing independently. Pronouns he/him. Bipedal carbon-based organism. Person. Danielmontgomery3.substack.com

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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Boy this year's New York Film Festival is the tits! "The Debut" is another delight playing at #NYFF #NYFF64 #film #filmsky
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‘The Debut’ inspires applause for Julianne Moore: NYFF64 review
What an odd but delightfully funny and humane film it is.
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#Behemoth jumps around in time, but it comes together in the end into a lovely character study and celebration of movie music
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‘Behemoth!’ is music to my ears: NYFF64 review
Boy was I swept up by the propulsive energy, excitement, and eclecticism of its music.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 12h
Check out my glowing review of the #NYFF world premiere #AStatement by Tom McCarthy
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‘A Statement’ exposes the human flaws underlying the climate crisis: NYFF64 review
It's a rather remarkable feat of acting, writing, and directing.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Back on line at the NY Film Festival, the last screening until closing night. Looking forward to rediscovering what sleep is for the next week.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
World premiere!! I really liked #Behemoth at the New York Film Festival, a celebration of the music that shapes a man's life #nyff #nyf64
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‘Behemoth!’ is music to my ears: NYFF64 review
Boy was I swept up by the propulsive energy, excitement, and eclecticism of its music.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
World premiere!! I really liked #Behemoth at the New York Film Festival, a celebration of the music that shapes a man's life #nyff #nyf64
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‘Behemoth!’ is music to my ears: NYFF64 review
Boy was I swept up by the propulsive energy, excitement, and eclecticism of its music.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Boy this year's New York Film Festival is the tits! "The Debut" is another delight playing at #NYFF #NYFF64 #film #filmsky
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‘The Debut’ inspires applause for Julianne Moore: NYFF64 review
What an odd but delightfully funny and humane film it is.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm really loving what I'm seeing at the New York Film Festival this year. I've loved more movies here than I have in a long time. #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ is an exemplary portrait of the big city: NYFF64 review
John Turturro gives a soulful performance that I hope takes this little-film-that-could to the Oscars.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When it's done well, I'm a sucker for writers writing about writing #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘Bitter Christmas’ is the study of a writer talking to himself: NYFF64
I think it would benefit from a second viewing because it's better in retrospect than it is in the moment.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When it's done well, I'm a sucker for writers writing about writing #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘Bitter Christmas’ is the study of a writer talking to himself: NYFF64
I think it would benefit from a second viewing because it's better in retrospect than it is in the moment.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rewatched this last night, I'd forgotten just how good it is, an underappreciated Sam Raimi joint
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A ★★★★ review of The Gift (2000)
I remember liking this movie, but I don't remember it being as good as it is. Cate Blanchett is simply beguiling in this. Giovanni Ribisi going BIG but it working somehow. Keanu Reeves doing some of h...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My favorite film so far from the New York Film Festival, which officially opened on Sept. 25
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‘NAZA’ is a blistering exposé about the AI tools of genocide: NYFF64 review
This exposé is so good that the filmmakers might have their Israeli citizenship revoked over it.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fatherland" didn't really connect with me at the New York Film Festival, but your mileage may vary #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘Fatherland’ is a handsome but austere road trip through postwar Germany: NYFF64 review
It reminded me of 'The Zone of Interest' in that it tells a historical story that is posed to us as a philosophical dilemma for the present day.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wrote this horror novella about avenging witches killing rapists around the time of the Kavanaugh hearings. In light of the Cornell 7 lawsuit coming to light, I thought I'd reshare in case anyone wants to read about sexual predators dying in creatively gruesome ways.
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The Cleansing Rage, book by Daniel Montgomery
The Cleansing Rage by Daniel Montgomery. A coven of witches exact vengeance against the perpetrators of a rape on a college campus. Read the book free on Booksie.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fatherland" didn't really connect with me at the New York Film Festival, but your mileage may vary #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘Fatherland’ is a handsome but austere road trip through postwar Germany: NYFF64 review
It reminded me of 'The Zone of Interest' in that it tells a historical story that is posed to us as a philosophical dilemma for the present day.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My greatest hope for the new Taylor Swift song is that it inadvertently boosts Aimee Mann's "Patient Zero."
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MY "Rose" review at #NYFF -- Director and co-writer Markus Schleinzer constructs a fable with gorgeous black-and-white cinematography by Gerald Kerkletz that gives the film the quality of history, or even myth.
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‘Rose’ is a powerful parable of gender freedom: NYFF64 review
'Rose' is not a transgender story, per se. And yet …
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of #PaperTiger, the Opening Night selection at the New York Film Festival. #nyff #nyff64
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‘Paper Tiger’ confronts the American dream: NYFF64 review
It has some impeccable scenes and performances, as well as meaningful themes about going to dangerous lengths for success.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had opinions. It's about the media. So I thought I'd write a thing about Ed Sheeran and Macklemore.
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Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, and why neutrality is no longer an option on Palestine
It’s an encouraging cultural shift that Macklemore is now enjoying streaming gains because of his vocal support for Palestine, and not in spite of it.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had opinions. It's about the media. So I thought I'd write a thing about Ed Sheeran and Macklemore.
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Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, and why neutrality is no longer an option on Palestine
It’s an encouraging cultural shift that Macklemore is now enjoying streaming gains because of his vocal support for Palestine, and not in spite of it.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My favorite film so far from the New York Film Festival, which officially opened on Sept. 25
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‘NAZA’ is a blistering exposé about the AI tools of genocide: NYFF64 review
This exposé is so good that the filmmakers might have their Israeli citizenship revoked over it.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's the year of Sandra Huller, and I couldn't be happier about it! #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘Rose’ is a powerful parable of gender freedom: NYFF64 review
'Rose' is not a transgender story, per se. And yet …
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of #PaperTiger, the Opening Night selection at the New York Film Festival. #nyff #nyff64
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‘Paper Tiger’ confronts the American dream: NYFF64 review
It has some impeccable scenes and performances, as well as meaningful themes about going to dangerous lengths for success.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jordan Firstman’s debut directorial effort isn't about reinventing the wheel, but I'll be damned if it's not one impeccably crafted wheel. It's raucous and queer with an emotional core that caught me by surprise.
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‘Club Kid' is a raucous, sublime directorial debut for Jordan Firstman: NYFF64 review
Club Kid answers the question, what if you remade Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy as an actually good movie?
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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
End billionaires. There is absolutely no reason a human being needs a billion dollars. The idea that one human (and they're entirely without fail completely unethical people with no morals or respect for fellow humans) needs multiple billions is beyond rational explanation. Just no, never, ever.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Leigh’s "Tender Loving Care" and Radu Jude’s "The Diary of a Chambermaid" offer very different slices of life in contemporary Europe. #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘Tender Loving Care’ and ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’: NYFF64 reviews
I had a productive day of press and industry screenings at the New York Film Festival, which officially opens to the public on Sept. 25.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Diary of a Chambermaid" director Radu Jude composes the film as a series of diaristic vignettes. Some days a lot happens, other days not so much. But sprinkled throughout are moments where social, political, and economic class are relevant: danielmontgomery3.substack.com/p/tender-lov...
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wish I liked Mike Leigh movies more than I do. He's often not on my wavelength
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‘Tender Loving Care’ and ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’: NYFF64 reviews
I had a productive day of press and industry screenings at the New York Film Festival, which officially opens to the public on Sept. 25.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TLDR: California Democrats sold out the state, culture, and free speech for billionaires.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's the year of Sandra Huller, and I couldn't be happier about it! #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘Rose’ is a powerful parable of gender freedom: NYFF64 review
'Rose' is not a transgender story, per se. And yet …
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The solidarity continues.
Trades Union Congress

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.
So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.
Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.
In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.
When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Watched this Netflix movie for shits and giggles, it nearly broke my brain LOL
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‘The Great Flood’ is fascinating, but does it make any sense?
Frankly the film, as it has been written, shot, and edited, is borderline incomprehensible.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Watched this Netflix movie for shits and giggles, it nearly broke my brain LOL
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‘The Great Flood’ is fascinating, but does it make any sense?
Frankly the film, as it has been written, shot, and edited, is borderline incomprehensible.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love love loved #ClubKid by Jordan Firstman. #NYFF #NYFF64 #film #filmsky
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‘Club Kid' is a raucous, sublime directorial debut for Jordan Firstman: NYFF64 review
Club Kid answers the question, what if you remade Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy as an actually good movie?
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I loved the latest film from Ira Sachs at the New York Film Festival. Read my review. #NYFF #NYFF64
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Rami Malek is marvelous in ‘The Man I Love’: NYFF64 review
Ira Sachs explores themes of intimacy, fidelity, and mortality with empathy but not excess sentimentality. He’s honest and clear-eyed.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#NAZA directors Abraham and Szor wisely keep their focus narrow. In 77 minutes, they meticulously document the use of artificial intelligence and other computer systems to expedite Israel's indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza. #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘NAZA’ is a blistering exposé about the AI tools of genocide: NYFF64 review
This exposé is so good that the filmmakers might have their Israeli citizenship revoked over it.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love love loved #ClubKid by Jordan Firstman. #NYFF #NYFF64 #film #filmsky
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‘Club Kid' is a raucous, sublime directorial debut for Jordan Firstman: NYFF64 review
Club Kid answers the question, what if you remade Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy as an actually good movie?
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#NAZA directors Abraham and Szor wisely keep their focus narrow. In 77 minutes, they meticulously document the use of artificial intelligence and other computer systems to expedite Israel's indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza. #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘NAZA’ is a blistering exposé about the AI tools of genocide: NYFF64 review
This exposé is so good that the filmmakers might have their Israeli citizenship revoked over it.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think #Fjord is thematically suspect, but what drives my internal conflict over the film is the fact that it’s actually quite a riveting legal procedural with excellent performances, especially from the two leads. #nyff #nyff64 #film #filmsky
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‘Fjord’ focuses on a questionable victim narrative: NYFF64 review
My second year covering the New York Film Festival as an independent journalist started with this festival favorite.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I loved the latest film from Ira Sachs at the New York Film Festival. Read my review. #NYFF #NYFF64
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Rami Malek is marvelous in ‘The Man I Love’: NYFF64 review
Ira Sachs explores themes of intimacy, fidelity, and mortality with empathy but not excess sentimentality. He’s honest and clear-eyed.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On line waiting to get into "The Man I Love" at #NYFF64. Always down for an Ira Sachs joint.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think "Fjord" is a riveting legal drama, but I have misgivings. Read my take from the New York Film Festival. #NYFF64 #NYFF #film #filmsky
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‘Fjord’ focuses on a questionable victim narrative: NYFF64 review
My second year covering the New York Film Festival as an independent journalist started with this festival favorite.
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Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A documentary so good that it might cost the filmmakers their Israeli citizenship. Everyone should see it when they can. Free Palestine #NAZA #NYFF #NYFF64
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‘NAZA’ is a blistering exposé about the AI tools of genocide: NYFF64 review
This exposé is so good that the filmmakers might have their Israeli citizenship revoked over it.
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