New York City 2020 Commercial Releases

(Films seen by yours truly are in blue. Films walked out of by yours truly—always at 1/3 of the total running time—are in red. Films yours truly is currently on the fence about possibly seeing, or is definitely planning to see, or has been assigned to review in the near future, are in green. Films yours truly has sampled at least the first 10 minutes of are indicated by a + sign following the director's name.)


Week of 25 Dec

[no films released]


Week of 18 Dec

[no films released]


Week of 11 Dec

[no films released]


Week of 4 Dec

[no films released]


Week of 27 Nov

[no films released]


Week of 20 Nov

[no films released]


Week of 13 Nov

[no films released]


Week of 6 Nov

[no films released]


Week of 30 Oct

[no films released]


Week of 23 Oct

[no films released]


Week of 16 Oct

[no films released]


Week of 9 Oct

[no films released]


Week of 2 Oct

[no films released]


Week of 25 Sep

[no films released]


Week of 18 Sep

[no films released]


Week of 11 Sep

[no films released]


Week of 4 Sep

[no films released]


Week of 28 Aug

[no films released]


Week of 21 Aug

[no films released]


Week of 14 Aug

[no films released]


Week of 7 Aug

[no films released]


Week of 31 Jul

[no films released]


Week of 24 Jul

[no films released]


Week of 17 Jul

[no films released]


Week of 10 Jul

[no films released]


Week of 3 Jul

[no films released]


Week of 26 Jun

[no films released]


Week of 19 Jun

[no films released]


Week of 12 Jun

[no films released]


Week of 5 Jun

[no films released]


Week of 29 May

[no films released]


Week of 22 May

[no films released]


Week of 15 May

[no films released]


Week of 8 May

[no films released]


Week of 1 May

[no films released]


Week of 24 Apr

[no films released]


Week of 17 Apr

[no films released]


Week of 10 Apr

[no films released]


Week of 3 Apr

[no films released]


Week of 27 Mar

[no films released]


Week of 20 Mar

[no films released]


Week of 13 Mar

Big Time Adolescence (Jason Orley)+
Block Z (Mikhail Red)
Bloodshot (Dave Wilson)
Cruel Peter (Ascanio Malgarini & Christian Bisceglia)
The Dog Doc (Cindy Meehl)
English Medium (Homi Adajania)
Human Nature (Adam Bolt)
The Hunt (Craig Zobel)+
I Still Believe (The Erwin Brothers)
Inside the Rain (Aaron Fisher)
A Kid From Coney Island (Coodie & Chike)
Lost Girls (Liz Garbus)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (Tony Tilse)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
The Postcard Killings (Danis Tanovic)
Ride Like a Girl (Rachel Griffiths)
The Roads Not Taken (Sally Potter)


Week of 6 Mar

Baaghi 3 (Ahmed Khan)
Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
The Banker (George Nolfi)
Beneath Us (Max Pachman)
The Booksellers (D.W. Young)
The Burnt Orange Heresy (Giuseppe Capotondi)
Extra Ordinary. (Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman)+
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
Foxtrot Six (Randy Korompis)
Go Back to China (Emily Ting)
Hope Gap (William Nicholson)
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan) [1997]
Only (Takashi Doscher)
Onward (Dan Scanlon)+
Run This Town (Ricky Tollman)
Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach)
Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)+
The Way Back (Gavin O'Connor)+
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)


Week of 28 Feb

Blood on Her Name (Matthew Pope)+
Burden (Andrew Heckler)
Disappearance at Clifton Hill (Albert Shin)
Doordarshan (Gagan Puri)
A Fine Line (Joanna James)
Greed (Michael Winterbottom)
Guns Akimbo (Jason Lei Howden)
Hai Tang Hong (Yan Dewei & Meng Zhonghua)
The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell)
The Jesus Rolls (John Turturro)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (Kenji Nagasaki)
Nuuk (Veronica Velasco)
Saint Frances (Alex Thompson)+
Straight Up (James Sweeney)+
Thappad (Anubhav Sushila Sinha)
Wendy (Benh Zeitlin)
The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)


Week of 21 Feb

Balloon (Michael Bully Herbig)
Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship (Bhanu Pratap Singh)
Brahms: The Boy II (William Brent Bell)
Cabaret Maxime (Bruno de Almeida)
The Call of the Wild (Chris Sanders)
CatVideoFest 2020 (Alex P. Kitten)
Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa)
Emma. (Autumn de Wilde)+
Goldie (Sam de Jong)
(Impractical) Jokers: The Movie (Chris Henchy)
Jinpa (Pema Tseden)+
Las Pildoras de Mi Novio (Diego Kaplan)
The Night Clerk (Michael Cristofer)
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson & The Band (Daniel Roher)
Premature (Rashaad Ernesto Green)
Ride Your Wave (Masaaki Yuasa)
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (Hitesh Kewalya)
Standing Up, Falling Down (Matt Ratner)
The State Against Mandela & the Others (Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte)
True Fiction (Braden Croft)
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations (Andrew Goldberg)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)


Week of 14 Feb

Blumhouse's Fantasy Island (Jeff Wadlow)
Buffaloed (Tanya Wexler)
Come as You Are (Richard Wong)
The Cordillera of Dreams (Patricio Guzmán)
Downhill (Nat Faxon & Jim Rash)
Enter the Fat Dragon (Kenji Tanigaki & Wong Jing)
I Was at Home, but... (Angela Schanelec)
Impossible Monsters (Nathan Catucci)
The Kindness of Strangers (Lone Scherfig)
The Last Thing He Wanted (Dee Rees)
Love Aaj Kal (Imtiaz Ali)
The Misogynists (Onur Tukel)+ [2017]
Olympic Dreams (Jeremy Teicher)
Ordinary Love (Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glenn Leyburn)
The Photograph (Stella Meghie)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler)+
The Thief of Baghdad (Ahmed Khaled)
The Times of Bill Cunningham (Mark Bozek)
VFW (Joe Begos)+
Waiting for Giraffes (Marco De Stefanis) [2016]
Wild (Uriel Sinai & Danel Elpeleg)
You Go to My Head (Dimitri de Clercq) [2017]


Week of 7 Feb

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin)+
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (Cathy Yan)
Cane River (Horace B. Jenkins) [1982]
Come to Daddy (Ant Timpson)+
The Lodge (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala)+
Malang (Mohit Suri)
The Man Standing Next (Woo Min-ho)
Waiting for Anya (Ben Cookson)


Week of 31 Jan

The Assistant (Kitty Green)
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words (Michael Park)
Gretel & Hansel (Osgood Perkins)+
Gul Makai (H.E. Amjad Khan)
Incitement (Yaron Zilberman)
Jawaani Jaaneman (Nitin Kakkar)
José (Li Cheng)
Miss Americana (Lana Wilson)+
The Rhythm Section (Reed Morano)+
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
2020 Oscar® Nominated Short Films: Animation (various)
2020 Oscar® Nominated Short Films: Documentary (various)
2020 Oscar® Nominated Short Films: Live Action (various)


Week of 24 Jan

Color out of Space (Richard Stanley)
The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie)+
Get Gone (Michael Thomas Daniel)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke) [2010]
John Henry (Will Forbes)
The Last Full Measure (Todd Robinson)
Los Leones (Frank Perozo)
Panga (Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari)
Quezon's Game (Matthew Rosen)
Street Dancer 3 (Remo D'Souza)
The Turning (Floria Sigismondi)
Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)


Week of 17 Jan

Ashfall (Kim Byung-seo & Lee Hae-jun)+
Bad Boys for Life (Adil & Bilall)+
Dolittle (Stephen Gaghan)
The Host (Andy Newbery)
Intrigo: Death of an Author (Daniel Alfredson)
My Hindu Friend (Hector Babenco) [2015]
VHYes (Jack Henry Robbins)+
Weathering With You (Makoto Shinkai)+


Week of 10 Jan

Afterward (Ofra Bloch)
The Battle of Mosul (Bernard-Henri Lévy) [2017]
Chhapaak (Meghna Gulzar)
The Corrupted (Ron Scalpello)
Darbar (A.R. Murugadoss)
The Dawn (Brandon Slagle)
Earth (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)+
Inherit the Viper (Anthony Jerjen)
Liberation (Shaohong Li & Xiaoyang Chang)
Like a Boss (Miguel Arteta)
Peshmerga (Bernard-Henri Lévy) [2016]
Reality Queen (Steven Jay Bernheim)
Sarileru Neekevvaru (Anil Ravipudi)
The Sonata (Andrew Desmond)+
System K (Renaud Barret)
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut)
Three Christs (Jon Avnet) [2017]
Underwater (William Eubank)+
Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation (Michael Dalton-Smith)
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (Alison Reid)


Week of 3 Jan

Adoring (Larry Yang)
Advocate (Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaïche)
The Grudge (Nicolas Pesce)+
Patients of a Saint (Russell Owen)