All articles by Tim Grierson, Senior US critic
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Reviews‘You Can See Everything’ review: Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes proves a slippery subject for fascinating documentary
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s knotty feature opens in the US on October 16
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Reviews‘Artificial’ review: Andrew Garfield impresses as OpenAI’s Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s surprisingly toothless AI thriller
The film premieres in New York before opening in the US in December and the UK in January
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Reviews‘Verity’ review: Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway struggle to lift flimsy Colleen Hoover adaptation
Josh Hartnett also stars in Michael Showalter’s glossy erotic thriller, which is now rolling out globally
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Reviews‘Digger’ review: Tom Cruise fails to convince as a bullish Texas oilman in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ambitious misfire
John Goodman, Riz Ahmed and Sandra Hüller also star in Iñárritu’s audacious, shallow satire
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Reviews‘Tenzing’ review: Biopic of overlooked Tibetan Everest summiteer Tenzing Norgay proves too restrained to be truly stirring
Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe star in Jennifer Peedom’s muted Zurich opener
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Reviews‘A Talent For Murder’ review: Helen Mirren is spiky author Patricia Highsmith in Anton Corbijn’s underwhelming thriller
Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Cooke also star in the director’s Toronto Gala premiere
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Reviews‘Alpha Gang’ review: Chris Pine, Léa Seydoux and Cate Blanchett are stylish alien invaders in diverting, overstretched sci-fi
Dave Bautista, Lily-Rose Depp and Riley Keough also star in the Zellner brothers’ follow-up to ‘Sasquatch Sunset’
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Reviews‘The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd’ review: Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy lead sober prison drama
Tim Blake Nelson’s latest feature premieres as a Toronto Gala Presentation
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Reviews‘The Debut’ review: A superb Julianne Moore takes centre stage in Jesse Eisenberg’s wry community theatre comedy
Eisenberg’s follow-up to Oscar-winner ‘A Real Pain’ also stars an impressive Paul Giamatti
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Reviews‘Misty Green’ review: A scorching performance from Rosalind Eleazar powers Chris Rock’s thorny Hollywood satire
Rock’s Toronto Gala Prentation also stars Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya and Anna Kendrick
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Reviews‘Babies’ review: Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick face a big decision in likable LA crowdpleaser
Issa Rae and David Strathairn also star in Lauren Miller Rogen’s Toronto Gala Presentation premiere
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Reviews‘Up Against It’ review: Trudie Styler’s aggressively sentimental tearjerker fails to make the most of stars Antonio Banderas and Eva Birthistle
Toronto Gala Presentation title takes a glossy approach to its thorny material
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Reviews‘The Assassin(s)’ review: Hur Jin-ho turns 1974 assassination attempt on South Korean president into gripping, propulsive thriller
Yoo Hai-jin, Park Hae-il and Lee Min-ho star in the director’s follow-up to ’A Normal Family’
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Reviews‘A Long Winter’ review: A sheltered young man faces a seismic shift in Andrew Haigh’s masterful 1950s Rocky Mountain drama
Haigh follows All Of Us Strangers and 45 Years with this atmospheric study of a splintering family
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Reviews‘Being Heumann’ review: Ruth Madeley impresses as US disability advocate Judy Heumann in broad period drama
Sian Heder follows CODA with cutesy dramatisation of Heumann’s 1977 San Francisco sit-in which opens Toronto
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Reviews‘The Uprising’ review: A stirring Andrew Garfield is unable to energise Paul Greengrass’s listless period drama
The writer/director’s take on England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt also stars Tom Hollander, Jamie Bell and Thomasin McKenzie
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Reviews‘Musk’ review: Alex Gibney presents a gripping if glossy study of controversial billionaire Elon Musk
Gibney’s exhaustive documentary plays Venice ahead of berths in Toronto and London
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Reviews‘Look Back’ review: Hirokazu Koreeda sketches a tender but overly sentimental portrait of young friendship
The Japanese auteur’s live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed manga debuts in Venice Competition
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Reviews‘Hombre Al Agua’ review: Gael Garcia Bernal’s class satire proves disjointed and underpowered
Garcia Bernal directs, co-writes and stars in this Venice Spotlight premiere
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Reviews‘Possible Love’ review: Lee Chang-dong explores class, desire and exploitation in powerful Venice competition return
The ‘Burning’ director reunites with star Sul Kyung-gu for an enigmatic drama about two married couples divided by wealth