THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK (2026)
While this is not actually Noah Segan's feature directing debut (another film from 2022, Blood Relatives which he also co-stars in, takes that title), it still feels significant as far as a kind of "Here is another Young Major VOICE you should listen to" for this year, not unlike Curry Barker or Kane Parsons. This is not in a lucrative Horror genre spot like those were, but Segan's Only Living Pickpocket in New York is important for showcasing a writer and director who has an almost novelistic way for writing dialog and a natural sense for how to film a weathered character actor-star like John Turturro walking the streets of NYC as a Guy In Trouble. Sometimes these Guy In Trouble films have a doomed quality (Bad Lieutenant, and I have to think Segan has seen a lot of Ferrara along with the old pros Scorsese and Lee and Cassavetes), or make you bite your fingernails till they bleed (throw a Safdie at the wall), but Segan's work is interesting because at least on th...
