Festival reviews – Page 41
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Reviews‘The End We Start From’: Toronto Review
Jodie Comer stars in Mahalia Belo’s debut feature, set in the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster
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Reviews‘Close To You’: Toronto Review
Trans actor Elliot Page brings his personal experiences to this tale of strained family relationships
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Reviews‘His Three Daughters’: Toronto Review
Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen are Azazel Jacobs’ three sisters gathered for the death of their father in a New York Apartment
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Reviews‘Wicked Little Letters’: Toronto Review
Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley re-unite to delightfully profane effect in this sweary comic twist on the cosy period drama
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Reviews‘Quiz Lady’: Toronto Review
Awkwafina and Sandra Oh team up for a road trip to a game show for director Jessica Yu
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Reviews‘Lee’: Toronto Review
Kate Winslet stars in this snapshot of Lee Miller’s life, directed by former cinematographer Ellen Kuras
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Reviews‘The Teacher’: Toronto Review
A teacher in Palestine is forced to confront his violent past in this passionate but uneven debut
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Reviews‘One Life’: Toronto Review
Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn star in this portrait of Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from Prague during the war
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Reviews‘Mother, Couch’: Toronto Review
Ewan McGregor is driven to distraction by his defiant mother in this off-kilter adaptation of the Swedish novel
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Reviews‘Society Of The Snow’: Venice Review
Spain’s J.A. Bayona tackles an oft-told real-life story from a catastrophic 1972 Andes plane crash
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Reviews‘Dicks: The Musical’: Toronto Review
Off-Broadway adaptation is a musical riot although there’s diminishing returns to this campily cult show
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Reviews‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Toronto Review
Viggo Mortensen’s second as director is a Western starring Vicky Krieps which marks an ambitious step up in scope
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Reviews‘Dumb Money’: Toronto Review
Director Craig Gillespie recreates the 2020 GameStop share affair with Paul Dano in the lead role
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Reviews‘An Endless Sunday’: Venice Review
Long hot summer Sundays in Rome form the basis of this Italian debut, produced by Wim Wenders
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Reviews‘Woman Of The Hour’: Toronto Review
‘A tremendous directorial debut’ from Anna Kendrick in this true-life serial killer drama which takes unexpected twists and turns
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Reviews‘American Fiction’: Toronto Review
Cord Jefferson’s impressive debut is a portrait of a frustrated Black author played with relish by Jeffrey Wright
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Reviews‘Shoshana’: Toronto Review
Michael Winterbottom carefully recreates Tel Aviv in the 1930s, where much of the tensions that affect Israel today are starting to bubble over
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Reviews‘Reptile’: Toronto Review
Benicio del Toro impresses in an otherwise lacklustre Netflix cop drama
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Reviews‘The Convert’: Toronto Review
Lee Tamahori returns to New Zealand with this 1830s-set story of a man of God, played by Guy Pearce, and two warring tribes
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Reviews‘Les Indesirables’: Toronto Review
A wealthy mayor takes on a Parisian immigrant tenement in Ladj Ly’s highly-charged follow up to ‘Les Miserables’