The 101 Best New York City Movies, Ranked

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( NEW YORK IN YOUR BONES [The 101 Best New York City Movies, Ranked]( Some movies reflect the perilous reality of living here; others, the urbane fantasy. The greatest do both. Photo: Courtesy of the Studios What makes a great New York City movie? Not just a movie set in New York — there are plenty of those. We’re talking about a great New York City movie that transcends establishing shots and dodgy accents to immortalize something distinct about this place. The anxious pace of a weekday commute, the philharmonic overlapping of sidewalk talk, the sweaty jockeying for position on any square foot. Great New York City movies find beauty in the rot of Times Square and ugliness in the penthouses of Central Park West. Many reflect the perilous reality of living in Brooklyn today and the Bronx yesterday; others, the urbane fantasy. The best do both. In assembling this list of the greatest New York movies, we laid down a few ground rules: In the interest of fairness, a director could only be represented twice on the list; any selection had to take place mostly in New York City (even if it wasn’t shot in New York City); and most important, it had to feel deliberately set in one of the five boroughs. Not just in any big city, but here. [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [Insecure:]( Four Women and a Baby • [Yellowjackets:]( Do You Like Being This Way? • [Succession:]( Eat This • [Money Heist Series Finale:]( A New Life • [Dexter: New Blood:]( Occam’s Razor • [The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City:]( He Felt Bamboozled • [PEN15:]( I Hate You • [Canada’s Drag Race:]( So About That Lip Sync … • [The Shrink Next Door:]( Party Down [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [New York Makes the Movies and the Movies Make New York For the 17th annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue, New York Magazine celebrates the city’s peerless connection to movies.]( [Losing My Teenage Dream Before Colton Haynes came to Hollywood, he was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.]( [There’s No Better Place to Be a Sociopath Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve dares you to make it in New York.]( [Griffin Dunne Answers Every Question We Have About After Hours It started with Martin Scorsese demanding he abstain from sex during the shoot and almost ended with Paul stuck in that sculpture.]( [18 Essential Nunsploitation Films, Ranked Paul Verhoeven is certainly not the first director to be fascinated with lesbian nuns.]( [Everything We Know About The Matrix Resurrections So Far Where is Morpheus? Do Neo and Trinity not remember each other? Why is only one Wachowski involved? Let’s see how deep the rabbit hole goes.]( [Chrishell Stause Was Not Born in a Gas Station The Selling Sunset star debunks rumors of her origins and sets the record straight on her relationships with Christine and Davina in season four.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Photo: From left: Carole Bethule/Netflix (Emily in Paris); Yannis Drakoulidis/Netflix(Lost Daughter); HBO Max (And Just Like That); Apple/Peanuts Worldwide (Peanuts); Jay Maidment (The Witcher); Amazon Studios (The Expanse). Don’t miss the new “Peanuts” special, Juhea Kim’s historical novel Beasts of a Little Land, or any of the other [notable books, movies, TV shows, and more coming out over the next two weeks](. [Read more from Vulture]( TOMORROW at Union Hall Vulture’s weekly comedy show, Pretty Major, will be hosted by Jay Jurden and feature performers Molly Austin, Jared Goldstein, Annabel Meschke, Sabina Meschke, Gianmarco Soresi, and more. [Buy tickets here.]( Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY If you enjoyed reading Vulture’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or dive deeper into the Vulture universe with our other newsletters: • [1.5x Speed](: Podcast recommendations and listening notes from Nick Quah, sent every Wednesday. • [Buffering](: Joe Adalian reports on the streaming industry, sent every Thursday. • [The Housewives Institute Bulletin](: For dedicated students of the Reality TV Arts and Sciences, sent every other Friday. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved