Festival reviews – Page 68
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Reviews‘The Substitute’: San Sebastian Review
A supply teacher struggles to stay on top of his classrom in a tough Buenos Aires barrio in Diego Lerman’s drama
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Reviews‘Blueback’: Toronto Review
Mia Wasikowska and Radha Mitchell star in Robert Connolly’s thoughtful Australian environmental drama
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Reviews‘The Hummingbird’: Toronto Review
A man’s life is revealed in non-linear fashion in Francesca Archibugi’s feather-light adaptation of Sandro Veronesi’s novel
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Reviews‘Prison 77’: San Sebastian Review
Alberto Rodriguez opens San Sebastian with a brutal 1970s-set Spanish prison drama
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Reviews‘Prisoner’s Daughter’: Toronto Review
Brian Cox stars as an ex-con while Kate Beckinsale is his disinterested daughter in Catherine Hardwicke’s Las Vegas-set drama
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Reviews‘Ticket To Paradise’: Review
George Clooney and Julia Roberts try their hand at an old-fashioned studio romcom for Universal
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Reviews‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’: Toronto Review
Shekhar Kapur makes his return to the big screen with this Anglo-Asian romantic comedy
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Reviews‘The Wonder’: Toronto Review
Florence Pugh impresses again in Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s atmospheric novel
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Reviews‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’: Toronto Review
Peter Farrelly follows up ‘Green Book’ with a simplistic Vietnam War comedy/drama starring Zac Efron
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Reviews‘Raymond & Ray’: Toronto Review
Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke play estranged half-brothers on a mission to bury their father in this Apple TV+ drama
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Reviews‘All Quiet On The Western Front’: Toronto Review
Edward Berger explores the enduring horrors of war in his adpatation of the classic WWI novel
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Reviews‘Wildflower’: Toronto Review
The only child of intellectually disabled parents faces difficult decisions in this narratively conventional coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘Wendell & Wild’: Toronto Review
Henry Selick returns after a long absence with this distinctive, feverish, animated odyssey
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Reviews‘Daughter Of Rage’: Toronto Review
A child struggles to find her mother in this tense debut set on a giant dump in Nicaragua’s capital city
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Reviews‘Baby Ruby’: Toronto Review
Noémie Merlant plays an instamum whose idealised life with husband Kit Harington starts to fall apart in Bess Wohl’s feature debut
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Reviews‘When The Waves Are Gone’: Venice Review
Filipino director Lav Diaz takes direct aim at the Duterte regime with this tale of crime and corruption
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Reviews‘My Policeman’: Toronto Review
Emma Corrin and Harry Styles navigate a 1950s love triangle in Michael Grandage’s tasteful adaptation of Bethan Roberts’ novel
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Reviews‘The Menu’: Toronto Review
Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes anchor ’Succession’ director Mark Mylod’s caviar-black move to features
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Reviews‘Catherine Called Birdy’: Toronto Review
Lena Dunham gently adapts Karen Cushman’s novel about a young girl fighting to take control of her fate in 13th century England
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Reviews‘Causeway’: Toronto Review
Jennifer Lawrence returns to the big screen with a small, deliberate story