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NYFF Dispatch 6: Party Crashing Out
A peek behind the curtain of New York Film Festival afterparties. Plus: brief impressions of Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident, and If I Had…
Oct 14 • 
Andrew Truong
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Byron Lo
How KPop Demon Hunters Became This Year’s Overachieving Asian American Movie
Gonna be gonna be golden.
Aug 29 • 
Andrew Truong
The Briefest of Gift Guides
Three things to get/not get for the party host, cinephile, and/or home chef in your life.
Dec 10 • 
Andrew Truong
Turkeys on the Table, Turkeys at the Cinema
Hamnet, Teenage Wasteland, Eternity, Wicked: For Good + Thanksgiving recap!
Dec 6 • 
Andrew Truong
Slow Cinema Anime, Feminism in Rural Iran, Thanksgiving Prep, November Movie Diaries
At the Movies & In the Kitchen: November 23
Nov 23 • 
Andrew Truong
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The Best Places To Eat & Drink Near the Lincoln Center, During NYFF and Beyond
Sep 26 • Andrew Truong
The Best Movies of 2024, According to Me
Dec 31, 2024 • Andrew Truong
The New York Film Festival: A User's Guide
Sep 26, 2024 • Andrew Truong
I'm In This Movie and I Don't Like It
Sep 10, 2024 • Andrew Truong
FILM301: INTRO TO CINÉMA DU OFFAL
ANDREW TRUONG ON CULT FILMS, CULT FOOD, AND MOVIES HE NEVER WANTS TO WATCH EVER AGAIN
Published on GUTS MAGAZINE • Nov 12
Offerings of Our Own
"Christy," "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk," and a community-based charity auction.
Nov 8 • 
Andrew Truong
New & Old Movies to Watch This November
And I reveal my personal Oscar villain of the season.
Nov 4 • 
Andrew Truong
Give Them Blood, Blood, Gallons of the Stuff
Radu Jude's outrageous "Dracula" and the tightly wound "Anniversary" offer chilling reactions to the present moment.
Oct 31 • 
Andrew Truong
High Infidelity
Mistress Dispeller, Hedda, and the Bruce Springsteen movie you should be watching instead of the new one.
Oct 26 • 
Andrew Truong
NYFF Dispatch 5: Deliver Me From Mediocrity
After the Hunt, Deliver the Anemone From Nowhere.
Oct 6 • 
Andrew Truong
October 2025 Movie Preview
What to watch, what not to watch, what I want to watch.
Oct 4 • 
Andrew Truong
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