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’New York Ninja’ Review: Nirvana for Fans of Retro Action Trash

Originally shot and abandoned in 1984, this low-budget martial arts mashup is a cheesy delight in newly reconstructed form.

By Dennis Harvey

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There are relatively few famous unfinished films, ranging from von Sternberg’s “I, Claudius” to Jerry Lewis’ “The Day the Clown Cried” to various Orson Welles joints that continue to be patched together by former collaborators long after his death. But most such projects, usually abandoned due to financial and/or legal woes, languish in an obscurity compounded by the fact no one cries for the resuscitation of something they don’t know exists.

But somebody did notice the plight of “New York Ninja,” a 1984 indie martial-arts extravaganza that would have been the first (and last) American vehicle for multi-hyphenate star John Liu , a moderately successful figure in Taiwanese action cinema. An already marginal, guerrilla-shot endeavor whose plug got pulled when the planned distributor went under, it has now been meticulously if none-too-seriously reconstructed by Vinegar Syndrome’s Kurtis M. Spieler , who “re-directed” the extant footage sans any surviving original script or sound components.

Its newly dubbed dialogue performed by a host of fan-fave exploitation veterans including Cynthia Rothrock, Leon Isaac Kennedy and Ginger Lynn Allen, this Frankensteinian feature emerges a bonanza of grindhouse badness that releases to a series of mostly single-date theatrical showings starting Jan. 17. Like another solid-gold camp nugget in the same vein excavated a few years ago, “Samurai Cop,” it should immediately accrue a belated but well-deserved cult following.

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The Blu-ray edition has a 50-minute documentary (“Re-Enter the New York Ninja”) recapping the film’s murky initial history and path to eventual reclamation. But all original production records were lost, so most of the cast and crew remain unidentified. Liu himself, when finally tracked down in Vietnam, declined to participate in aiding either Vinegar Syndrome’s preparatory research or assembly of a first-ever release cut. So by necessity there was a great deal of “creative freedom,” particularly as Spieler needed to somewhat invent a narrative to glue together footage whose intended story appeared near-senseless in unedited form. He also had to write dialogue to fit the mouths moving silently on-screen … well, more or less fit.

Liu’s protag, also called John (now voiced by Don “The Dragon” Wilson ), is a wiry Manhattanite thrown into despair when his pregnant wife gets killed by thugs amid a citywide kidnapping epidemic. When not bare-fistedly breaking plates and particle boards in his grief, he rescues children and other innocents from the lawless punks terrorizing the streets à la such contemporary films as “Class of 1984” and Cannon’s “Death Wish” sequels. There’s also a mystery man in a Rolls-Royce called the Plutonium Killer (voice of horror fave Michael Berryman) for his mutant homicidal radioactivity.

John is comforted by his friend, TV reporter Randi (Adrienne Meltzer, voiced by Linnea Quigley), who’s also on the crime wave-investigative case, along with her comedy-relief cameraman, two jaded police detectives, a guy from Interpol and more. When our hero’s incognito deliverance of vigilante justice — and his flying feet, sometimes on roller skates — attracts media attention, a Superman-like fan base develops among citizens for what they name the “New York Ninja.”

With shoestring production values, Liu’s energetically silly fight choreography, good use of stolen locations and 35mm imagery in first-rate preservative condition, “Ninja” has cheesily entertaining elements that it combines in a very lively fashion. Spieler’s editorial assembly is tight, while the original score by Detroit-based latter-day retro band Voyag3r flawlessly re-creates ’80s synth-rock soundtrack motifs.

Somehow the end result of all this piecing-together is a deliciously campy but fond whole — quite the opposite of last year’s “Grizzly II: Revenge,” another salvage job whose equally old derelict parts turned out too meager to construct even a watchable curio from. Here, a psychotronic good time for all is ensured by the game goofiness of the action, which encompasses too-clumsy-to-be-offensive sexploitation as well as a dollop of villainous sci-fi horror, plus contrary stabs at “G-rated” appeal. (There’s an eventual cheering army of “kid ninjas.”) The on-screen actors’ raw hamming is nicely complemented by the voice performers’ relatively deadpan contributions, which only render the dialogue and situations even more absurd.

With all credit due the reconstructionists, one suspects that if “New York Ninja” had indeed been completed in 1984, it might’ve been remembered by completist genre buffs ever since as one of the era’s more outré low-budget guilty pleasures. This tardy debut, however, gives it the benefit of launching as something of an Event among trash nostalgists, an unearthed celluloid time capsule from the dankest days of Times Square.

Reviewed online, San Francisco, Jan. 14, 2022. Running time: 93 MIN.

• Production: A Vinegar Syndrome Pictures release and presentation of a 21st Century Film production. Producers: Brad Henderson, Kurtis M. Spieler. Executive producers: Ryan Emerson, Ralph Stevens, Joe Rubin.
• Crew: Directors: John Liu, Kurtis M. Spieler. Screenplay: Kurtis M. Spieler, based on a prior screenplay by Arthur Schweitzer, John Liu. Camera: Steven Ning, Aaron Kleinman. Editor: Kurtis M. Spieler. Music: Voyag3r, Sean Canada.
• With: John Liu, Adrienne Meltzer, Don Wilson, Linnea Quigley, Vince Murdocco, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Cynthia Rothrock, Matt Mitler, Ginger Lynn Allen, Michael Berryman.

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New York Ninja Reviews

From Liu's less-than-convincing but more-than-effective fight choreography, to crazy hoodlum costuming, to [an] army of child ninjas, to a briefcase right out of Kiss Me Deadly, to [a] rattail chewing/fencing bodyguard, there's something for everyone.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2023

An affectionate example of-slash-tribute to Reagan Era grindhouse garbage.

Full Review | Mar 4, 2022

It stands as both a testament to the determination and dogged efforts of film preservationists, and as one last taste of a belovedly dopey subgenre.

Full Review | Feb 25, 2022

New York Ninja is not for everyone but it will certainly satiate your appetite for low-budget schlock.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2022

I did have fun watching its absurdities for a while, but even at a relatively modest 93 minutes, I did find it beginning to run out of steam well before the conclusion. That said, New York Ninja still sort of works.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2022

...something of a campy, nostalgic masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 22, 2022

Often feels like a pre-fab midnight movie that was made with apparent love and care but without much urgency or creativity.

Full Review | Jan 19, 2022

With shoestring production values, Liu's energetically silly fight choreography, good use of stolen locations and 35mm imagery in first-rate preservative condition, "Ninja" has cheesily entertaining elements that it combines in a very lively fashion.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2022

It is like going back to the eighties and enjoying something very typical of that time, for better AND for worse. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2021

Memorable one-liners, absurdly imaginative fight choreography (one scene is inexplicably fought on roller skates), and a freeze frame ending that ranks amongst the best I've ever seen.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2021

Admittedly, the tonal shifts between ninja-centric fun and kidnapping women are rough. However, this does little to diminish the culty, campy enjoyment the pictureboasts with zeal.

Full Review | Original Score: 9.5/10 | Nov 22, 2021

Know what you're getting into. Whether [it] sounds like the best or worst way to spend ninety-minutes, it will be that and more.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 21, 2021

It's a must-see for anyone who loves outrageous old action flicks, and who appreciates the labor of love that is film preservation.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2021

The movie has the same attitude as kids overdubbing commercials with their camcorder pointed at a TV set. It's childish, but still pretty fun. What would you expect?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2021

There is no denying the awesomeness of the Golden Age of ninja flick of the 80s. This restored gem is filled with all the campy fun that is expected.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2021

If Cannon Films and Troma Entertainment had a baby, it would be "New York Ninja."

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 5, 2021

This is definitely not a film to take too seriously, but it's absolutely a fun one to catch with friends or with a crowd at a retro screening.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2021

New York Ninja is one of those bad movies that's just bad enough to actually be entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Nov 4, 2021

Not one but two '80s-style goons wearing jockstraps on the outside of their clothes and a ninja on roller-skates. What else do you need to hear?

Full Review | Original Score: A | Nov 3, 2021

It's that kind of silly, ridiculous, campy ninjasploitation soaked in New York City ephemera that you're bound to fall in love with...

Full Review | Nov 3, 2021

‘New York Ninja’ Film Review: Cult Movie’s Backstory as a ‘Lost Film’ More Interesting Than Anything on Screen

Not even an elaborate restoration and new voice dub by B-movie legends can make lemonade out of actor-director John Liu’s low-budget martial arts epic

More consideration probably went into the restoration than the original production of “New York Ninja,” a cheesy vigilante action pic that was shot and abandoned in 1984.

Newly edited and “re-directed” by producer Kurtis Spieler (Vinegar Syndrome re-released the movie on Blu-ray and is opening it in select theaters), “New York Ninja” was originally conceived as a star vehicle for Taiwanese martial artist turned writer-director John Liu, who previously starred in a few other kung fu cheapies like “Secret Rivals” and “The Invincible Armour.” You can imagine why Liu quit making movies after he shot “New York Ninja,” despite Spieler’s best efforts with this newly re-assembled, re-scored, and completely re-dubbed version of Liu’s movie.

Liu’s original footage has some scrappy charms, but the movie’s main draw is its footage of 1980s NYC and a new period- and mood-appropriate voice cast of 1980s cult movie stars, including Michael Berryman, Leon Isaac Kennedy, and Linnea Quigley. (The original cast members are unknown and therefore uncredited, except for Liu, who couldn’t be reached by Spieler.) The new “New York Ninja” often feels like a pre-fab midnight movie that was made with apparent love and care but without much urgency or creativity.

In Spieler’s “New York Ninja,” Liu plays John (voiced by Don “The Dragon” Wilson), a distraught New Yorker who takes justice into his own hands after Jimmy Cufflinks (Matt Miler), a street tough in an angora fedora, murders John’s pregnant wife Nita (Ginger Lynn Allen). Nita’s death inadvertently draws John into a simultaneously vague and convoluted plot masterminded by the Plutonium Killer (Berryman), a shady character who pays the Pale Man (Bill Timoney) to kidnap women for his dungeon basement. John chases after the Plutonium Killer as the New York Ninja, a masked hero who frustrates the NYPD — led by detectives Jimmy (Kennedy) and Janet (Cynthia Rothrock) — and inspires everyone else, particularly nosy TV reporter Randi (Quigley) and impressionable orphan “the Kid” (Zihan Zhao).

Despite Spieler’s intentions , his “New York Ninja” often feels like a pandering homage to other movies of the period, particularly Cannon’s cycle of chop-socky ninja pics, like “Enter the Ninja” and “Ninja III: The Domination,” as well as Troma’s gross-out superhero comedies “The Toxic Avenger” and “Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.”

Voyag3r’s distracting new synth-heavy score never lets us forget that we’re watching an homage and not an authentically corny throwback. And the movie’s combination of old footage with new vocal performances makes it hard to enjoy the original actors’ campy performances, despite the voice cast’s better efforts. Some voice-cast members match their on-screen counterparts better than others: Berryman, Rothrock, and Timoney all excel in their respective roles, possibly because they’re the most experienced of this rag-tag bunch of fan favorites.

“New York Ninja” has enough high-concept charms to be watchable, even if its plot doesn’t really stick together or build in tension from moment to moment. You don’t really need to care about John’s character development to dig Liu’s exploitation-friendly footage, highlights of which include a couple of goofy sword fights and an appropriately sleazy sex scene. If you’re watching Spieler’s “New York Ninja”, it’s probably because you’ve already seen and enjoyed this type of movie before. Maybe you’re a fan of flamboyant heavies, hyper-real sound effects or jarring post-dubbed dialogue. Or maybe you’ll enjoy the uniquely surreal experience of watching character actors over-emote while unknown amateur performers try to do, uh, something on-screen.

Still, Spieler’s movie often looks scattered enough to make one wonder what motivated Liu and why so little of his passion for this project translated into his footage. What would Liu have done with the Kid’s endearingly silly sub-plot — Zhao’s character leads a mob of kiddie fans who cheer on John’s heroic persona — or the brief sequence where John slowly and methodically frees the Plutonium Killer’s variably dressed female victims from their dungeon restraints? Or how about scenes where the Plutonium Killer gets high and/or scarred after poring over a mysterious glowing box? These scenes now look like a scatterbrained homage to the iconic 1955 film noir “Kiss Me Deadly” and its apocalyptic MacGuffin, but Spieler’s re-assembled footage doesn’t necessarily reflect Liu’s inciting enthusiasm.

The best reason to watch “New York Ninja” is in its title. Liu clearly saw the dramatic and/or marketable potential in various NYC exteriors and filled as many scenes as possible with urban iconography. His frequent use of master shots (whenever there’s more than person in frame) suggests that Liu understood that more is always more. Every conversation scene feels like a showcase for its outdoor locations, like when John has a clandestine meeting with Jimmy. In Spieler’s version, John and Jimmy’s hilariously drawn-out conversation mostly serves to highlight the surrounding boardwalk and Manhattan skyline.

It’s hard to assign meaning or creative intent to a movie that was only assembled decades after its original conception, but Vinegar Syndrome’s camp-worshipping target audience might still find that “New York Ninja” features just enough gonzo character and DIY chutzpah.

“New York Ninja” began a national rollout in U.S. theaters Monday.

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‘New York Ninja’ Film Review: Cult Movie’s Backstory as a ‘Lost Film’ More Interesting Than Anything on Screen

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More consideration probably went into the restoration than the original production of “ New York Ninja ,” a cheesy vigilante action pic that was shot and abandoned in 1984.

Newly edited and “re-directed” by producer Kurtis Spieler (Vinegar Syndrome re-released the movie on Blu-ray and is opening it in select theaters), “New York Ninja” was originally conceived as a star vehicle for Taiwanese martial artist turned writer-director John Liu, who previously starred in a few other kung fu cheapies like “Secret Rivals” and “The Invincible Armour.” You can imagine why Liu quit making movies after he shot “New York Ninja,” despite Spieler’s best efforts with this newly re-assembled, re-scored, and completely re-dubbed version of Liu’s movie.

Liu’s original footage has some scrappy charms, but the movie’s main draw is its footage of 1980s NYC and a new period- and mood-appropriate voice cast of 1980s cult movie stars, including Michael Berryman, Leon Isaac Kennedy , and Linnea Quigley. (The original cast members are unknown and therefore uncredited, except for Liu, who couldn’t be reached by Spieler.) The new “New York Ninja” often feels like a pre-fab midnight movie that was made with apparent love and care but without much urgency or creativity.

In Spieler’s “New York Ninja,” Liu plays John (voiced by Don “The Dragon” Wilson), a distraught New Yorker who takes justice into his own hands after Jimmy Cufflinks (Matt Miler), a street tough in an angora fedora, murders John’s pregnant wife Nita (Ginger Lynn Allen). Nita’s death inadvertently draws John into a simultaneously vague and convoluted plot masterminded by the Plutonium Killer (Berryman), a shady character who pays the Pale Man (Bill Timoney) to kidnap women for his dungeon basement. John chases after the Plutonium Killer as the New York Ninja, a masked hero who frustrates the NYPD — led by detectives Jimmy (Kennedy) and Janet (Cynthia Rothrock) — and inspires everyone else, particularly nosy TV reporter Randi (Quigley) and impressionable orphan “the Kid” (Zihan Zhao).

Despite Spieler’s intentions , his “New York Ninja” often feels like a pandering homage to other movies of the period, particularly Cannon’s cycle of chop-socky ninja pics, like “Enter the Ninja” and “Ninja III: The Domination,” as well as Troma’s gross-out superhero comedies “The Toxic Avenger” and “Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.”

Voyag3r’s distracting new synth-heavy score never lets us forget that we’re watching an homage and not an authentically corny throwback. And the movie’s combination of old footage with new vocal performances makes it hard to enjoy the original actors’ campy performances, despite the voice cast’s better efforts. Some voice-cast members match their on-screen counterparts better than others: Berryman, Rothrock, and Timoney all excel in their respective roles, possibly because they’re the most experienced of this rag-tag bunch of fan favorites.

“New York Ninja” has enough high-concept charms to be watchable, even if its plot doesn’t really stick together or build in tension from moment to moment. You don’t really need to care about John’s character development to dig Liu’s exploitation-friendly footage, highlights of which include a couple of goofy sword fights and an appropriately sleazy sex scene. If you’re watching Spieler’s “New York Ninja”, it’s probably because you’ve already seen and enjoyed this type of movie before. Maybe you’re a fan of flamboyant heavies, hyper-real sound effects or jarring post-dubbed dialogue. Or maybe you’ll enjoy the uniquely surreal experience of watching character actors over-emote while unknown amateur performers try to do, uh, something on-screen.

Still, Spieler’s movie often looks scattered enough to make one wonder what motivated Liu and why so little of his passion for this project translated into his footage. What would Liu have done with the Kid’s endearingly silly sub-plot — Zhao’s character leads a mob of kiddie fans who cheer on John’s heroic persona — or the brief sequence where John slowly and methodically frees the Plutonium Killer’s variably dressed female victims from their dungeon restraints? Or how about scenes where the Plutonium Killer gets high and/or scarred after poring over a mysterious glowing box? These scenes now look like a scatterbrained homage to the iconic 1955 film noir “Kiss Me Deadly” and its apocalyptic MacGuffin, but Spieler’s re-assembled footage doesn’t necessarily reflect Liu’s inciting enthusiasm.

The best reason to watch “New York Ninja” is in its title. Liu clearly saw the dramatic and/or marketable potential in various NYC exteriors and filled as many scenes as possible with urban iconography. His frequent use of master shots (whenever there’s more than person in frame) suggests that Liu understood that more is always more. Every conversation scene feels like a showcase for its outdoor locations, like when John has a clandestine meeting with Jimmy. In Spieler’s version, John and Jimmy’s hilariously drawn-out conversation mostly serves to highlight the surrounding boardwalk and Manhattan skyline.

It’s hard to assign meaning or creative intent to a movie that was only assembled decades after its original conception, but Vinegar Syndrome’s camp-worshipping target audience might still find that “New York Ninja” features just enough gonzo character and DIY chutzpah.

“New York Ninja” began a national rollout in U.S. theaters Monday.

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‘new york ninja’ review: amazing restoration from vinegar syndrome showcases the golden age of ninja cinema.

Move over, Batman.

New York Ninja is a gem that could only have been made during the Golden Age of ninja cinema in the 1980s. Directed, written by, and starring John Liu, photography wrapped in 1984 before the project was abandoned unreleased shortly after. Using the unedited reels, Vinegar Syndrome has managed to put together a cut that was as close to the Liu’s original vision as possible.

(The original audio was lost necessitating the lines be re-recorded. Voice actors include Don “the Dragon” Wilson and Linnea Quigley. Period appropriate music and sound effects were also included.)

The movie starts with John and his wife Nina celebrating the news of their impending baby. They are madly in love and excited for the future. As was often the case with 80s films, this meant someone had to die soon. In this case, Nina is quickly murdered while inexplicably interfering in a daylight kidnapping. A short scene of John practicing karate follows, and New York Ninja is off to the races.

There is little in the way of actual comedy in the movie, but it is hilarious. From John’s dirty and ill fitting ninja costume to main villain the Plutonium Killer’s weakness being light to a chase scene in which the Ninja is on roller skates, New York Ninja is filled with laugh out loud moments. Yes, there are kidnappings, murder, and a prostitution ring involved, but it all takes a backseat to the film’s endless camp.

As is often the case with similar films from the era, it is hard to understand what is happening. Alliances are formed, broken, then mended without any explanation. There are subplots involving street urchins, a sex dungeon, and popular opinion of the New York Ninja versus what officials think of the vigilante. None of them are explored, making the movie indecipherable at times. 

This is best seen in the end when the police are ready to take the Ninja in only to be stopped by a mobbed of the Ninja’s young fans. This diversion allows him to escape, but this does not seem to matter since the cops are willing to let him go. It is all very confusing, but at this point, the Ninja had his own branded shurikens. All of this only adds to the movie’s charm.

New York Ninja is a hilarious trip back to a time when ninjas were all the rage. The choreographed fight scenes show off amazing balance, even if they are painfully slow. Its nonsensical plot will keep audiences engaged the whole time. Things even end with a classic freeze frame. Vinegar Syndrome did an amazing job. If only there were that promised L.A. Ninja.

New York Ninja  is available on Blu-ray for the first time

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‘New York Ninja’ Review: “I ❤️ NY NINJA”

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From the opening credits of New York Ninja , you already know this movie will be a ride. The campiest of heroes, the zaniest of villains, and the grimiest you’ve ever seen New York? Absolutely brilliant . Rarely does a movie ooze creativity and style in the manner  New York Ninja does. You can feel the shoestring budget through the screen, but what they did with what they had was immaculate. New York Ninja ‘s only and greatest tragedy is that we are just now getting this movie.

New York Ninja  was originally filmed in 1984 and was abandoned and left to obscurity. Now in 2021, Vinegar Syndrome recovered the unedited reels and created a beautiful Frankenstein-esque monster. Without the original audio or credits to go off of, a completely new voiceover and score (from the impeccable Voyag3r) was necessary. All you need to know story-wise for New York Ninja is that it follows a vigilante ninja in New York City. I’m going to withhold details on the plot so you can venture into it with fresh eyes.

New York Ninja is an experience. An experience I’d best describe as a combination of The Warriors and Repo Man . Absolutely over the top, no holds barred, from beginning to end. If you are capable, watch this on the biggest and loudest screen you can get. Although I didn’t get to watch this in a theater, I was yelling and hollering in my apartment living room with joy. If you’re comfortable, get a group of friends to watch this. New York Ninja  is the ultimate communal movie.

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The strongest aspect of New York Ninja is its myth-making. With the exception of a few characters, no one knows who the New York Ninja is. A man that comes in and obliterates a group of armed men with only one foot is the kind of guy you do not want on your bad side. From the media to the children – the New York Ninja was a symbol of change and justice. Even the overabundance of “New York Ninja” merchandise shows the type of spell the ninja himself cast upon the city. A persona that is best comparable to a modern-day Robin Hood.

The action and effects done by John Liu are a sight to behold. Some of the stunts he does are on par with something from a Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, or Shaw Brothers movie. The variety of weapons used in addition to the martial arts added a much deeper value to each fight. The costume design for each group of villains was plentiful enough so no one foe looked the same. A different type of enemy with a different move set showed Liu’s strengths as a martial arts professional. In that he would fight each person differently so at no point does the movie feel stale.

A lot of praise should be directed at the new script and voice-over work. The new script written by director Kurtis M. Spieler was excellent, full stop. To reinterpret something as crazy as this while retaining the identity you can feel so tangibly is masterful. The new voice-over also worked insanely well. An excellent cast including Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ginger Lynn Allen, Michael Berryman, Linnea Quigley, Vince Murdocco, and Matt Mitler. One of my personal favorite aspects of the voiceover is the stark contrast between the dubbed lines and the actual words the actors mouthed. By doing so, it adds another level of charm as if it’s something directly out of Speed Racer .

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Should you watch this without any insight into the film’s production, you would assume this came directly from the 1980’s. The level of delicacy that the people over at Vinegar Syndrome put into this is awe inspiring. There was a clear vision as to how this movie was to be put together, and the execution was a slam dunk. From Voyag3r’s respectful score to the stylized editing that harkens back to 1980’s camp and martial arts. If there are any other incomplete movies out there, Vinegar Syndrome should be the absolute number one pick to restore it.

It’s equally as exciting as it is sad that we are just now getting this movie. Who knows what level of esteem this movie could have held for young and budding film lovers back in the 1980’s. However, it being released today should only create a new generation of film lovers. This is a cult classic in the making and you should take any opportunity you can make to watch this. – Jacob Mauceri

RATING: 9 NY Ninja Throwing Stars Out Of 10

New York Ninja  will be available for pre-order for 4K/UHD Blu-Ray with Vinegar Syndrome .

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Back in 1984, martial artist and actor John Liu set out to make his American film debut by directing and starring in a little movie called New York Ninja . However, shortly after principal production wrapped, the project was abandoned, and Liu retired from the entertainment industry. It seemed that New York Ninja was fated to become yet another what-could-have-been, lost to the annals of film history…that is until the good folks over at Vinegar Syndrome acquired the original unedited negative and decided to complete the film, nearly 40 years after the production was scrapped.

With no script, soundtrack, or production notes of any kind to work from, Vinegar Syndrome edited reels of 35mm film, recorded dialogue with a cast of cult faves from the 1980s, and enlisted the band Voyag3r to compose and record a stunning, synth-heavy score. The resulting New York Ninja , with directing credit belonging to both Liu and Kurtis Spieler , is a campy, action-packed delight that deserves its chance to finally be seen by the audiences that will appreciate it most.

Gangs of New York

John (played onscreen by Liu , with dialogue recorded by Don “The Dragon” Wilson ) is a sound recordist for a news station who is thrilled when his wife tells him she’s pregnant with their first child. However, their joy is short-lived; when his wife sees a woman being abducted and tries to intervene, she is brutally murdered by the perpetrators. John is devastated, but with New York currently drowning under a tidal wave of violent crime, his demands for justice fall on deaf ears. So, he decides to take matters into his own hands, donning a white ninja ensemble and hitting the streets to beat the crap out of any and all criminals he encounters.

John’s vigilante antics earn him the love and respect of regular New Yorkers, who jump at the chance to make shirts and buttons exclaiming I HEART NY NINJA; he basically becomes the 1980s equivalent of a viral meme, with his antics populating the front pages of newspapers instead of social media feeds. Needless to say, the police are much less appreciative of his activities, even as he works tirelessly to rid the city of the muggers, rapists, and other criminals that they’re too busy to deal with themselves. But in challenging the scum of the city, John ends up with a target on his back that pretty much every bad guy in New York would love to put a bullet in the center of—including a mysterious villain known as the Plutonium Killer, whose hands leave radioactive burn marks on his victims. (Yes, really.)

Blast from the Past

Technically New York Ninja is a 2021 release, but throughout the film, it is easy to be tricked into believing that you’re really watching something that played in some of the grimiest theaters on 42nd Street during the mid-1980s—such is the devotion of Spieler and the Vinegar Syndrome team to completing the film in a way that feels authentic to the time period in which it was originally shot. The 35mm print looks absolutely pristine, and the newly recorded dialogue, which in addition to Don “The Dragon” Wilson features the vocal stylings of such genre-film stalwarts as Linnea Quigley , Cynthia Rothrock , and Michael Berryman , will ring true to anyone who has watched old martial-arts movies, even (or rather, especially) in its most obviously overdubbed moments. Yes, all of the acting is a bit over-the-top, but that’s part of what makes it charming—and it works in the context of this weird, wild movie. The retro vibe is further emphasized by the cheeky sound design as well as Voyag3r’s musical score, a cavalcade of shrieking synths and throbbing beats that truly sounds as though it were recorded in the year 1984 in the best way possible.

The footage itself is delightful, a mishmash of nearly-averted violent crimes committed by guys who are all dressed like rejects from The Warriors —lots of weird haircuts, creepy masks, and artfully torn clothing. Liu choreographed the action sequences, which mostly revolve around him dominating these ridiculous-looking street toughs, many of them lurk on the periphery awkwardly shadowboxing while he dispatches them one at a time. You might find yourself wondering why they don’t all just jump on him at once, but you also won’t really care to know the answer, because watching Liu destroy them all—with monogrammed ninja stars, natch—is incredibly entertaining. New York Ninja also provides modern audiences with a proper glimpse of pre-Giuliani New York, all rundown, covered with graffiti, and with much more character than the city has today—something I can never get enough of.

The supporting characters in New York Ninja include John’s colleagues at the news station, a crusading woman reporter and her love-interest camera operator; a police detective who eventually realizes he has no choice but to team up with the ninja; a kid who John rescues from a gang and adopts as his own; and many, many innocent women who find themselves set upon by terrible men. These scenes are generally interrupted by the New York Ninja before they can progress too far, which is good because littering the film with numerous scenes of graphic sexual assault would make it all a lot less fun. One can imagine that there will still be some folks who find these scenes a bit tasteless, but if you were hoping for a film called New York Ninja to be a paragon of cinematic good taste and political correctness, then you honestly should have known better.

New York Ninja feels destined to become a cult classic, the kind of film playing in the background at raucous house parties and neighborhood dive bars that elicits shrieks of laughter and delight from anyone who encounters it. It’s a must-see for anyone who loves outrageous old action flicks, and who appreciates the labor of love that is film preservation.

What do you think? Are you familiar with the preservation and restoration work of Vinegar Syndrome? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

New York Ninja is currently available on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome. A 35mm theatrical run of the film is set for early 2022.

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Lee Jutton has directed short films starring a killer toaster, a killer Christmas tree, and a not-killer leopard. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Film School Rejects, Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Bitch Flicks, TV Fanatic, and Just Press Play. When not watching, making, or writing about films, she can usually be found on Twitter obsessing over soccer, BTS, and her cat.

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By Josiah Teal | November 22, 2021

From the ashes of an unfinished 1984 martial arts film rises the completed and re-cut  New York Ninja . Brought together by Vinegar Syndrome and director Kurtis Spieler, the film is a saga of a ninjutsu vigilante bringing justice to “gangs of drugged-up punks.” Originally directed and starring John Liu, Spieler brings to life a lost cult classic, primed for the midnight movie scene in all of its beautiful, campy martial arts glory.

John (John Liu) is a mild-mannered sound tech for a local news station. After a massive crime wave plagues the Big Apple, John’s wife is caught in the crossfire and killed by kidnappers. In the wake of her death, John seeks to bring his brand of throwing star justice to the street gangs of NYC. What ensues is a monument to Van Damme-inspired 1980s martial arts mayhem – complete with rescuing a kid, building a massive fanbase, and fighting the dreaded Plutonium killer (Michael Berryman).

“… a ninjutsu vigilante bringing justice to ‘gangs of drugged-up punks.'”

New York Ninja  is literally a lost film finally found and unleashed to the world. It feels like something you would find in a random VHS bin or on “Flicks of Fury,” destined to become your new favorite. The action sequences throughout steer perfectly into the absurd nature of the story, featuring ridiculous rollerskate combat, helicopter explosions, and more spinning kicks than you can count. It’s pure late-night popcorn fun at its finest – like a lost sibling to  Miami Connection , including the all-white ninja attire but minus the rock band.

Liu and Spieler painstakingly capture the essence of my two favorite genres: martial arts and cult. The film is a marriage of martial arts cinema and strange cult phenomenon, down to the film’s poster design. Sure, it has flaws as it is ridiculous and cheesy, yet that is precisely why it is brilliant. The unique brand of semi-self-aware insanity on display allows the film to be completely aware of its sheer entertainment value. This is a film that practically screams its midnight movie bonafides from frame one.

I loved  New York Ninja . The film is rewatchable, quotable, and perfect for a  Samurai Cop  or Bruceploitation double-feature. Admittedly, the tonal shifts between ninja-centric fun and kidnapping women are rough. However, this does little to diminish the culty, campy enjoyment the picture   boasts with zeal. By the end, I wanted an “I love New York Ninja” shirt like the ones in the film. Vinegar Syndrome has found/created a fantastic cult classic. The only regret is we never got the sequel promised in the credits. I only hope Vinegar Syndrome can give us  L.A. Ninja .

New York Ninja (2021)

Directed and Written: John Liu, Kurtis Spieler

Starring: John Liu, Don “The Dragon” Williams, Linnea Quigley, Vinnie Murdoco, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Cynthia Rothrock, Matt Mitler, Ginger Lynn Allen, etc.

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Originally filmed in 1984,  New York Ninja  was never fully finished and never saw the light of day, at least not until this, the year of our lord 2021. Written, directed, and starring Taiwanese martial performer John Liu ( Blade of Fury ,  Kung Fu Commandos ), after principle photography wrapped, the project was abandoned before completion. Three-and-a-half decades later, this legend, still unedited, turned up in a lot purchased by Vinegar Syndrome , the niche physical media company specializing in rare cult and exploitation fare. And it couldn’t have found a better or more appropriate home.

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This isn’t the first time treasures of this ilk have been unearthed.  Miami Connection  a few years back comes to mind. But  New York Ninja  is unique in that most of those were complete films that, for one reason or another faded into the ether. This, however, became a unique collaboration across generations. The result is an unhinged martial arts extravaganza that’s nothing if not a total blast. It’s a spectacle to behold for sure. 

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New York Ninja  is a hodgepodge of dodgy ideas and bizarre choices. This is the NYC of the early ‘80s, every inch covered in graffiti, where some neighborhoods could be and often were used as sets for cheap post-apocalyptic movies. The roving gangs look like the Village People on bath salts. There are cowboys, near-mummies, lots of black leather and half-shirts, and, no joke, at least two dudes just chilling wearing jockstraps on the outside. You know, for fashion. 

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Every last choice the movie makes is totally off the wall—seriously, at one point the Ninja roller skates into battle. But as goofy and silly and more than occasionally disbelief-stretching as it is, there’s an earnestness and enthusiasm to the ineptitude. Sure, some of the fight choreography looks like it was done by a beginner karate class, but everyone sells out and buys in so hard it’s impossible not to get swept up in the fervor and utter doofus joy. 

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Now, this right here is the KA-RAZY chopsaki kung-fu that I miss about the martial art flicks from the 1980s!  

Written, directed and starring Taiwanese martial arts legend John Liu ( The Secret Rivals, Invincible Armor ), New York Ninja is truly a one-of-a-kind martial arts film as a mild-mannered sound technician for a New York City news station finds himself avenging the death of his pregnant girlfriend in the gritty streets of New York City as a white-clad SUPER ninja against a notorious gang of criminals and street punks!

Ridiculous in nature and completely off the rails, New York Ninja is a MUST-SEE for anyone who loves the insanity of karate-chops courtesy of low budget cult films.  It absolutely ROCKS as John ( Liu ), after suffering through his girlfriend’s murder, watches yet another brutal attack and reaches out to the police for aid.  Their methods aren’t effective so John takes matters into his own hands and becomes the one and only  NEW YORK NINJA !  

Originally filmed in 1984 and abandoned shortly after it wrapped as Liu retired on the eve of the film’s release (which would have been his North American debut), New York Ninja has been just sitting - FORGOTTEN - on the shelf somewhere in a dusty and decrepit warehouse of some sort.  Maybe it was in a closet.  Who knows?!  Only the archival wizards over at Vinegar Syndrome know for sure as they - being the fabulous folk that they are - somehow managed to acquire the original unedited camera negative and painstakingly constructed and completed the film, getting it primed for its 4K debut on blu-ray this November!  

Since the film was abandoned, none of the original sound materials, scripts, and treatments survived, Vinegar Syndrome - and director Kurtis M. Spieler - enlisted the voice talents of genre favorites Don “The Dragon” Wilson ( Bloodfist, Whatever it Takes ), Linnea Quigley ( Return of the Living Dead, Nightmare Sisters ), Michael Berryman ( The Hills Have Eyes, Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies ), Vince Murdocco ( Night Hunter, LA Wars ), Matt Mitler ( The Mutilator, Battle for the Lost Planet ), Leon Isaac Kennedy ( Lone Wolf McQuade, Penitentiary ), Ginger Lynn Allen ( The Devil’s Rejects, Vice Academy ), and Cynthia Rothrock (China O’Brien, Martial Law ), in order to finish the film and present it to audiences after spending nearly four decades in film obscurity!  The results are well worth your time and your investment as New York Ninja is one of the best BADASS SINEMA UNEARTHED offerings out there!

Restored in 4K from the original camera elements, Vinegar Syndrome is extremely proud to present this truly one-of-a-kind film experience when it lands in select theaters next year.  Before that, though, the over-the-top glory that is New York Ninja can finally be yours for the first time ever on blu-ray this November 1st!

MPAA Rating: Unrated. Runtime: 93 mins Director : John Liu; Kurtis Spieler Writer: Cast: Michael Berryman (voice); Darius Churchman (voice); Wayne Grayson Genre : Action Tagline: Memorable Movie Quote: Distributor: Vinegar Syndrome Official Site: Release Date: November 2, 2021 DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: Synopsis : John is just an average man working as a sound technician for a New York City news station, until one day his pregnant wife is brutally murdered while witnessing the kidnapping of a young woman in broad daylight. Turning to the police for help, John soon learns that the city is overrun with crime and the police are too busy to help. Dressing as a white ninja, John takes to the streets as a sword wielding vigilante hell bent on cleaning up the streets of the city he once loved by ridding it of muggers, pickpockets, rapists, and gang members. However, in John’s quest for justice, he soon finds himself the target of every criminal in the city, including a mysterious villain known only as the Plutonium Killer. Will John survive to become the hero that New York City so desperately needs?

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Seinfeld’s Unfrosted (trailer below) is a zany star-filled comedy that tells the story of rival cereal companies, Kellogg’s and Post, “racing to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever”— Pop-Tarts. Seinfeld stars in, co-wrote and directed the film, which also stars Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Sarah Cooper and Bill Burr.

Out of the gate this morning, the film has only a 46 percent positive critics score on Rotten Tomatoes which — as Tony the Tiger would say — isn’t exactly g-r-r-reat! Some reviews are downright scathing, as you’ll soon read.

And yet, some of the country’s top critics at publications like The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , The Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle gave the film modestly positive reviews.

But let’s start with a few notices that won’t be lucky charms for the film.

The Chicago Sun-Times declared Unfrosted “one of the decade’s worst movies. I’m surprised … Seinfeld, one of the sharpest and most observant comedic minds of his generation, didn’t halt production halfway through, call time of death and apologize to everyone for wasting their time. Unfrosted is so consistently awful it makes the aforementioned Flamin’ Hot seem like The Social Network . If there was a thing called the IMDB Witness Protection Program whereby you could get your name taken off the credits of a particular project, this would be that project.”

The Daily Beast called the film “as bad as you’d expect.” “Superior to Seinfeld’s prior cinematic offering, 2007’s animated  Bee Movie , it’s content to be childishly silly rather than legitimately weird, veering between gags concerning age-old products and Jan. 6 with a mildness that keeps things pleasantly pedestrian. There’s nothing particularly awful about it, but there’s also very little that’s memorable.”

Collider wrote: “Considering we’re in a world where  Barbie  can make $1.4 billion and become a commentary on feminism and the patriarchy, or Tetris, Air Jordans, and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos can get their own halfway decent biopics, it’s a shame  Unfrosted  doesn’t try a bit harder. Again, even a film like  Weird  managed to make its jokes and cameos work as part of a larger story, whereas  Unfrosted  always puts the story itself on the back burner.”

But comedy is, if nothing else, subjective, and several top outlets rather enjoyed Unfrosted .

The Guardian wrote “there’s a steady stream of excellent gags, creating a rising crescendo of silliness similar in effect to Seinfeld’s own distinctive falsetto-hysterical declamation at the moment of ultimate joke-awareness …As a whole, it’s not exactly a masterpiece, but amiable and funny in a way that’s much harder to achieve than it looks.”

The Washington Post gave the movie 2.5 stars and wrote, “ Unfrosted may be the Platonic ideal of the Netflix movie: ephemeral, edible, enjoyable, forgettable. It’s essentially Jerry Seinfeld inviting everyone in his Rolodex to come on over for an extended hang to parody the current craze for trademark biopics … The hit-to-miss joke ratio is decent — about three gags land for every one that gets stuck in the toaster.”

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The author died on Tuesday due to complications from lung cancer, the Guardian has been told.

Auster became known for his “highly stylised, quirkily riddlesome postmodernist fiction in which narrators are rarely other than unreliable and the bedrock of plot is continually shifting,” the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote in 2010.

His stories often play with themes of coincidence, chance and fate. Many of his protagonists are writers themselves, and his body of work is self-referential, with characters from early novels appearing again in later ones.

“Auster has established one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature,” wrote critic Michael Dirda in 2008. “His narrative voice is as hypnotic as that of the Ancient Mariner. Start one of his books and by page two you cannot choose but hear.”

The author was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1947. According to Auster, his writing life began at the age of eight when he missed out on getting an autograph from his baseball hero, Willie Mays, because neither he nor his parents had carried a pencil to the game. From then on, he took a pencil everywhere. “If there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it,” he wrote in a 1995 essay .

While hiking during a summer camp aged 14, Auster witnessed a boy inches away from him getting struck by lightning and dying instantly – an event that he said “absolutely changed” his life and that he thought about “every day”. Chance, “understandably, became a recurring theme in his fiction,” wrote the critic Laura Miller in 2017. A similar incident occurs in Auster’s 2017 Booker-shortlisted novel 4 3 2 1: one of the book’s four versions of protagonist Archie Ferguson runs under a tree at a summer camp and is killed by a falling branch when lightning strikes.

Auster studied at Columbia University before moving to Paris in the early 1970s, where he worked a variety of jobs, including translation, and lived with his “on-again off-again” girlfriend, the writer Lydia Davis, whom he had met while at college. In 1974, they returned to the US and married. In 1977, the couple had a son, Daniel, but separated shortly afterwards.

In January 1979, Auster’s father, Samuel, died, and the event became the seed for the writer’s first memoir, The Invention of Solitude, published in 1982. In it, Auster revealed that his paternal grandfather was shot and killed by his grandmother, who was acquitted on grounds of insanity. “A boy cannot live through this kind of thing without being affected by it as a man,” Auster wrote in reference to his father, with whom he described himself having an “un-movable relationship, cut off from each other on opposite sides of a wall”.

Auster’s breakthrough came with the 1985 publication of City of Glass, the first novel in his New York trilogy. While the books are ostensibly mystery stories, Auster wielded the form to ask existential questions about identity. “The more [Auster’s detectives] stalk their eccentric quarry, the more they seem actually to be stalking the Big Questions – the implications of authorship, the enigmas of epistemology, the veils and masks of language,” wrote the critic and screenwriter Stephen Schiff in 1987.

Auster published regularly throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s, writing more than a dozen novels including Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002) and Oracle Night (2003). He also became involved in film, writing the screenplay for Smoke, directed by Wayne Wang, for which he won the Independent Spirit award for best first screenplay in 1995.

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In 1981, Auster met the writer Siri Hustvedt and they married the following year. In 1987 they had a daughter, Sophie, who became a singer and actor. Auster’s 1992 novel Leviathan, about a man who accidentally blows himself up, features a character called Iris Vegan, who is the heroine of Hustvedt’s first novel, The Blindfold.

Auster was better known in Europe than in his native United States: “Merely a bestselling author in these parts,” read a 2007 New York magazine article , “Auster is a rock star in Paris.” In 2006, he was awarded Spain’s Prince of Asturias prize for literature, and in 1993 he was given the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He was also a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

In April 2022, Auster and Davis’s son, Daniel, died from a drug overdose. In March 2023, Hustvedt revealed that Auster was being treated for cancer after having been diagnosed the previous December. His final novel, Baumgartner, about a widowed septuagenarian writer, was published in October.

Auster is survived by Hustvedt, their daughter Sophie Auster, his sister Janet Auster, and a grandson.

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‘Challengers’ Review: Game, Set, Love Matches

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.

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The director luca guadagnino narrates a sequence from his film, featuring josh o’connor and mike faist..

Hello, I’m Luca Guadagnino, and I am the director and one of the producers of ‘Challengers.’ In this sequence, we see the two male characters of ‘Challengers’— Patrick Zweig, played by Josh O’Connor, and Art Donaldson, played by Mike Faist — when they are in their early 20s. And they are very good tennis players. We meet them in Stanford, where Art is attending, while Patrick has left education to become a professional tennis player. This scene in particular depicts a moment, and evolution in their friendship that has been kind of diverted because of a third person came into their duo, which is Tashi Duncan, played by Zendaya. And what we see is basically a sort of game of rivalry sparkling between these two young boys over Tashi. But at the same time, a jealousy that ignites the relationship also. Because probably these two guys are also jealous of one another, not only of Tashi. “I think she’s making me an honest man. You don’t believe me?” “No, I’m just — I’m not sure how she’s thinking about all of this. I don’t want you to get hurt.” The character of Tashi is kind of an invisible presence, but a very profound presence in the scene. “Did she say something to you?” “No. I just got the impression she’s not thinking about this as a serious relationship.” And I kept the shot long, because I felt that we had to stay with them to learn the grammar of their behavior, and their behavior together. And we just cut once we realize that the game of manipulation laid bare on the table by Art has been spotted by Patrick. So we cut to a sort of reverse shot, extreme close up, where Patrick hugs, in a sort of ambiguous way. And so there is a sort of constant battle between the two of them to the degree that they are fighting, but they are taking care of one another. When the sugar goes on the cheek of Patrick, Art takes it off with his hand in a very nice gesture of kindness — and very intimate, I would say. But at the same time, they are really tense. And I think it’s about being jealous of one another, but at the same time wanting one another that we are trying to play out, and that Josh and Mike do in a beautiful way in the sequence.

By Manohla Dargis

You can always feel the filmmaker Luca Guadagnino trying to turn you on — he’s a zealous seducer. His movies are sleek divertissements about ravishing people and their often sumptuously rarefied sensibilities and worlds. I tend to like his work, even if it can be overly art-directed and feel too (excuse the verb) curated to stir the soul along with my consumer lust. I am moved when a father tenderly comforts his son in “ Call Me by Your Name ”; my most vivid memories of “ A Bigger Splash ” is its striking setting and a dress that Tilda Swinton wears.

Guadagnino’s latest, “Challengers,” is about a continually changing love triangle involving two besotted men and a sharp, beautiful woman with killer instincts and personal style. Largely set in the world of professional tennis, it is a fizzy, lightly sexy, enjoyable tease of a movie, and while someone suffers a bad injury and hearts get broken (or at least banged up), for the most part it’s emotionally bloodless. Even so, it’s a welcome break in tone and topic after Guadagnino’s Grand Guignol adventures in “ Suspiria ,” a take on a Dario Argento horror film, and “ Bones and All, ” about two pretty cannibals hungrily and moodily adrift.

Written by the novelist and playwright Justin Kuritzkes, “Challengers” is fairly straightforward despite its self-consciously tortured narrative timeline. It tracks three tennis prodigies — friends, lovers and foes — across the years through their triumphs and defeats, some shared. When it opens, the troika’s one-time brightest prospect, Tashi (Zendaya), has been retired from playing for a while and is now coaching her husband, Art (Mike Faist), a Grand Slam champ rapidly spiraling downward. In a bid to reset his prospects (he’s a valuable property, for one), he enters a challenger tournament, a kind of minor-league event where lower-ranking professionals compete, including against injured higher-ranking players.

That match takes place in New Rochelle, N.Y., an easy drive from Flushing, Queens, and the home of the U.S. Open, which Art has yet to win. It’s while in New Rochelle that he and Tashi dramatically reconnect with Patrick (Josh O’Connor), the errant member of their complicated three-way entanglement. A rich boy who cosplays as poor (well, at least struggling), Patrick met Art when they were children at a tennis academy. By 18, they were tight friends and perhaps something more; the movie coyly leaves just how close to your imagination, even as it fires it up. It’s at that point that they met Tashi, then a fast-rocketing star.

Soon after the movie opens in 2019, it jumps to the recent past (“two weeks earlier”) and then starts bouncing around back and forth in time like a ball flying over the net, with the New Rochelle match serving as the story’s frame. (The 2019 date may be a nod to an epic men’s final at Wimbledon that year in which, after nearly five hours, Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer.) Turning back the clock can be a cheap way to make movies appear more complex than they actually are. Here, though, as the story leaps from past to present — from when Tashi, Art and Patrick were feverishly young to when they were somewhat less young — time begins to blur, underscoring that the passing years haven’t changed much.

All three leads in “Challengers” are very appealing, and each brings emotional and psychological nuance to the story, whatever the characters’ current configuration. They’re also just fun to look at, and part of the pleasure of this movie is watching pretty people in states of undress restlessly circling one another, muscles tensed and desiring gazes ricocheting. Guadagnino knows this; he’s in his wheelhouse here, and you can feel his delight in his actors. With the cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, he shows them off beautifully, caressing them in light so that they look lit from within. Even during the fantastically staged and shot — and very sweaty — New Rochelle match, they glow.

Much like her character, Zendaya gives the movie a jolt of glamour, which draws you to Tashi, even as the writing keeps her frustratingly distant. Tashi is, in many ways, the shrewdest and toughest of the three friends, and it’s she who artfully finesses Art and Patrick to bookend her body, perched on a bed soon after they meet. Zendaya is more convincing off the court than on it. Yet whatever doubts you have about her as a sports sensation are immaterial simply because the actress’s own magnetism is undeniable. Hers is a charismatic force field — call it stardom — that in old Hollywood once turned ordinary mortals into gods.

For his part, Faist opens up the puppyish Art, letting you to see the character’s vulnerability, which makes him sympathetic until it makes him just sad. But it’s O’Connor who pushes the material toward something like depth. O’Connor played such an insufferable version of the young Prince Charles in the series “The Crown” that I had a difficult time separating the actor from his character. Patrick is an altogether different kind of off-putting type; he swaggers and smirks and, in one scene, drops his towel in the sauna. It’s a bit of sly gamesmanship; it’s also flirting. His confidence gives him an erotic charge that fires up Art and Tashi, and neither seems able to quit him even after drama and disaster upend the trio.

That disaster is a big deal, or it’s meant to be, but Guadagnino is better at blissfully gliding along the surfaces of life than he is at digging too far beneath them. Which is fine, really! One of the other pleasures of “Challengers” is that despite some tears, tightened jaws and its fussy chronology, the movie isn’t trying to say anything important, which is a relief. It wants to engage and entertain you, and it does that very nicely. A dreamy movie is sometimes all you want, and if it inspires you to pick up a racket or a date, or just rewatch a delight like Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 “ Design for Living ,” about a different sexy trio, so much the better.

Challengers Rated R for pillow talk and some discreet lovemaking. Running time: 2 hours 11 minutes. In theaters.

Manohla Dargis is the chief film critic for The Times. More about Manohla Dargis

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Movie Review – New Life (2024)

May 4, 2024 by Robert Kojder

New Life , 2024.

Written and Directed by John Rosman. Starring Sonya Walger, Hayley Erin, Tony Amendola, Ayanna Berkshire, Nick George, Jeb Berrier, and Blaine Palmer.

A mysterious woman on the run, and the resourceful fixer assigned to bring her in. Their two unique stories inextricably link, as the stakes of the pursuit rise to apocalyptic proportions.

The first half of writer/director John Rosman’s New Life is intentionally confounding, and the payoff is more than worth it. Centered on Hayley Erin’s on-the-run Jessica and Sonya Walger’s fixer Elsa, the latter has been contacted by an organization to find and bring in the former. What’s especially odd is that while Elsa is portrayed as the hardened, no-nonsense villain in this scenario, with Jessica aware that someone is after her for some reason and means business, the film is also taking time to incorporate more grounded and human elements such as this agent going to the early stages of ALS.

Jessica is, or possibly was, a fiancé, as evidenced by the wedding ring and blood on her face. Or perhaps she murdered him. Naturally, she also doesn’t say much to the few friends she meets up with, which is logical considering she wants to stay hidden. She is trying to protect a small circle of friends at a farmhouse, but from what danger? There are also flashbacks to Jessica’s life with her partner Ian (Nick George), camping in the woods, which is sure to inevitably explain part of what’s happening here.

Choosing to withhold clear motives for each character feels like it could have easily been a recipe for disaster or a sign to mentally check out early, but the lived-in performances and sensitive treatment of the material, especially something as serious as ALS for a character still committed to the job, ensure intrigue. 

At that halfway mark, New Life shifts from cat-and-mouse thriller to horror, although I will leave the subgenre unspecified. That’s not to say the reveals are the only reason to watch this gutsy balancing act of genre because the characterization is also effective. There is also an element of conspiracy that could have been explored more deeply, although it’s also understandable why it’s not considering everything else being juggled.

What can be said is that the practical effects are detailed, and the horror sequences themselves are intense. The meticulously handled slow build to something that could have easily been written off as generic also allows something familiar to feel suspenseful and exciting. It’s worth stressing that the film isn’t necessarily doing anything new within that subgenre but gets away with trafficking in some of the more popular tropes because of its unorthodox structure and strong character work.

While New Life does lead to a riveting finale that makes the most of its transition into horror and major stakes for the world’s fate, it doesn’t quite reach the profound statement that it seems to be ambitiously aiming for. Still, as an exercise in unpredictability and connecting with characters despite the bare minimum information, it succeeds and announces John Rosman as a cleverly twisted filmmaker to keep an eye on. 

Flickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★ ★ ★

Robert Kojder is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Critics Choice Association. He is also the Flickering Myth Reviews Editor. Check  here  for new reviews, follow my  Twitter  or  Letterboxd , or email me at [email protected]

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