Led by a terrifically tender performance by John Turturro, it’s a classy, enjoyable, lovely film about a man out of time, coming to...
Filmed across the city’s boroughs, the thriller has a wonderful sense of place as this solitary man must rely on his savvy after one of his vi...
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York might not be anything revolutionary, but it sure is revelatory. Segan laments a bygone bustling past, s...
Ultimately The Only Living Pickpocket in New York shows us that old school and new school aren’t opposites. Like the city’s many seeming contradict...
The film Segan has made is very much its own thing. It’s a twilight fable of a city that’s changing, whose spirit remains distinct and grand a...
It’s a melting pot of experiences from comical to romantic to thrilling to richly ruminative. Everything flows together gracefully in step th...
It’s an earnest tribute to a lot of things – a city, a time, a genre, a mentality, an actor in Turturro – and while we’ve definitely been here...
The Only Living Pickpocket sympathizes with Harry without forgiving him.
What makes Segan’s movie so intoxicating, however, is not just the depth of its inside-and-out central character study but the granular textures of...
It’s the kind of unapologetically local love letter to the Big Apple and its less-illustrious denizens that New York deserves.
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