Festival reviews – Page 6
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Reviews‘Funky Freaky Freaks’ review: South Korean debut is frantic tale of high school jealousy and revenge
Hyper-stylised Busan Competition entry is grounded by strong performances
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Reviews‘En Route To’ review: A surprise teenage pregnancy fuels this accomplished South Korean debut
Yoo Jae-in’s Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project premieres in Busan Competition
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Reviews‘Another Birth’ review: Lyrical Tajikistan drama sees a young girl search for a mythical creature
Busan competition title is first in intended trilogy from US-based Tajik filmmaker Isabelle Kalandar
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Reviews‘Baka’s Identity’ review: A trio of Japanese internet scammers attempt to escape their life of crime
Koto Nagata’s low-key crime thriller premieres in Busan Competition
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Reviews‘To The Victory!’ review: Toronto’s Platform winner blends fact and fiction in a near-future Ukraine
Writer/director Valentyn Vasyanovych takes the central role of a filmmaker desperate to stay in his homeland
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Reviews‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ review: Change comes to the Abbey in nostalgic final hurrah
Director Simon Curtis and writer Julian Fellowes serve up a familiar formula of scandal and sentimentality
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Reviews‘The Captive’ review: Alejandro Amenabar tackles formative years of Spanish author Cervantes
Newcomer Julio Pena Fernandez plays the Spanish writer in packed historical epic
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Reviews‘Blue Heron’ review: Contemplative Canadian debut sees a filmmaker confront her difficult past
Sophy Romvari’s accomplished first feature dramatises her own childhood experiences
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Reviews‘Steal Away’ review: Clement Virgo’s ambitious afrofuturist thriller explores sexual awakening
The Canadian director’s genre-bending drama stars Angourie Rice and Mallori Johnson
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Reviews‘& Sons’ review: Bill Nighy’s disheveled alcoholic author heads intriguing family drama
Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn and George MacKay also star in Pablo Trapero’s English-language feature debut
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Reviews‘Glenrothan’ review: Actor Brian Cox’s directorial debut is overworked Scottish family drama
Cox also stars opposite Alan Cumming in cliched tale of two estranged brothers reuniting
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Reviews‘On The Road’ review: Venice Horizons winner is taut, tender tale of gay Mexican drifter
Writer/director David Pablos sets his story in the ultra-masculine environment of Mexico’s trucking community
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Reviews‘Nuremberg’ review: Russell Crowe is Nazi officer Hermann Goring in earnest courtroom drama
James Vanderbilt’s second feature dramatises Goring’s 1940s trial and also stars Rami Malek and Michael Shannon
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Reviews‘Hamnet’ review: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal power Chloe Zhao’s potent Shakespeare drama
‘The Rider’ and ‘Nomadland’ director confidently adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the genesis of ‘Hamlet’
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Reviews‘Ballad Of A Small Player’ review: Colin Farrell is on a losing streak in Edward Berger’s gambling drama
Tilda Swinton also stars in the director’s Macao-set follow up to ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ and ‘Conclave’
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Reviews‘Couture’ review: Angelina Jolie is a tour de force in Alice Winocour’s Paris fashion drama
Jolie stars as a Paris Fashion Week filmmaker battling cancer in intricate Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘The Christophers’ review: Steven Soderbergh’s witty chamber piece stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel
The director’s chatty, catty two-hander premieres in Toronto
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Reviews‘Eternity’ review: Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner head thin afterlife romcom
Director David Freyne’s soulless Toronto title is lifted by sparky supporting performances from Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early
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Reviews‘Winter Of The Crow’ review: Lesley Manville propels gripping Polish Cold War thriller
The British star captivates as a professor on a deadly trip to 1980s Warsaw in Kasia Adamik’s gritty drama
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Reviews‘I Swear’ review: Robert Aramayo is exceptional as real-life Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson
Kirk Jones directs this stirring biopic of Davidson, previously the subject of documentaries including ‘John’s Not Mad’