Festival reviews – Page 4
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Reviews‘Snapshot’ review: A killer stalks Victorian London in inventive but stilted period found-footage horror shot through a pinhole lens
Joseph Archer’s feature debut premieres in Edinburgh before heading to FrightFest
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Reviews‘Mission’ review: George MacKay gives a committed performance in propulsive, overwrought mental health drama
MacKay reteams with his ’For Those In Peril’ director Paul Wright for Edinburgh competition title
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Reviews‘You Don’t Belong Here’ review: Locarno Golden Leopard winner is tense, slow-burn study of Romanian masculinity
Florin Serban’s cool, clinical drama about a strained father-son relationship will next play Sarajevo
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Reviews‘Capsized’ review: Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe find themselves in troubled waters in modest, bittersweet US debut
Lindsey Ryan’s Edinburgh competition premiere follows an American family battling financial hardship
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Reviews‘Love Lessons’ review: A retired teacher finds he has a lot to learn in Martin Provost’s light, unsurprising French drama
Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni and Carole Bouquet star in the Locarno Piazza Grande premiere
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Reviews‘The State Of Us’ review: A boisterous Bradford night out turns sentimental in dewey-eyed UK debut
Ollie Gardner and Jake Harvey’s first feature follows a pair of Northern friends coping with terminal illness
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Reviews‘Out There’ review: Intermittently charming Welsh sci-fi relies on a committed cast including Michael Sheen and Aneurin Barnard
Simon Ryninks’ debut premieres in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Nowhere To Lay My Eyes’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s latest proves sparse, minor-key family drama
The prolific South Korean filmmaker debuts his new work in Locarno competition
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Reviews‘The House On The Moon’ review: Singapore’s Nelson Yeo turns Chinese moon goddess myth into ponderous flight of fancy
The filmmaker returns to Locarno competition after 2023 Golden Leopard win for debut ‘Dreaming & Dying’
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Reviews‘Concrete Land’ review: Sensitive observational doc follows an exiled Afro-Palestinian-Bedouin family in Jordan
Asmahan Bkerat’s intimate feature was filmed over eight years and premieres at Locarno
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Reviews‘Down The Arm Of God’ review: Caleb Landry Jones co-writes and stars in well-intentioned US homelessness drama
Luc Besson produces Peter Brunner’s feature, which premieres in Locarno’s Piazza Grande
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Reviews‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ review: Looney Tunes adaptation is, like its wiley protagonist, more miss than hit
Dave Green’s blend of live-action and animation stars John Cena, Will Forte and a host of Looney Tunes characters
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Reviews‘Nobody’s Violence’ review: Denis Côté’s twisting thriller confronts profound questions of mortality
The filmmaker’s regular collaborator Larissa Corriveau stars in the gripping Locarno competition title
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Reviews‘At Night’ review: Experimental, allusive UK debut explores women’s shared experiences
Beatrice Gibson’s Paris-set Locarno premiere features cinematography from filmmaker Ben Rivers
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Reviews‘Manhunt’ review: Intense psychological thriller follows two troubled boys across the Canadian wilderness
Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Locarno competition title is inspired by real life events
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Reviews‘The Green Eyes’ review: Locarno opener is visually striking, tonally uneven French asylum drama
Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s magical realist film takes inspiration from the rare condition of resignation syndrome
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Reviews‘Ancestral Beasts’ review: Indigenous Canadian horror effectively draws on the spectre of generational trauma
Writer/director Tim Riedel’s creature feature premiered at Fantasia
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Reviews‘The Leader’ review: Michael Gallagher weaves gripping, grim drama about Heaven’s Gate cult
Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga shine in true-life tale that offers no easy answers
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Reviews‘Village Of Eight Gravestones’ review: ‘Ju-on: The Grudge’ director Takashi Shimizu deftly adapts the 1940s Japanese detective novel
Matsuya Onoe stars as Japanese gumshoe Kosuke Kinaichi in this Fantasia premiere
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Reviews‘Someone’s Daughter’ review: A knotty survival tale set against the hostile Canadian wilderness
Pascale Bussieres’s tightly controlled performance highlights this Fantasia premiere from director Wiebke Von Carolsfeld