Festival reviews – Page 69
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Reviews‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’: Toronto Review
Sacha Jenkins crafts a portrait of iconic musician Louis Armstrong and an exploration of racial inequality
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Reviews‘The Lost King’: Toronto Review
A further exhumation of the King in the carpark from director Stephen Frears and stars Sally Hawkins and co-writer Steve Coogan
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Reviews‘The Fabelmans’: Toronto Review
Steven Spielberg takes his autobiographical childhood portrait to Toronto, with Michelle Williams and Paul Dano starring
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Reviews‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’: Toronto Review
Daniel Craig travels to Greece as Netflix takes over Rian Johnson’s glossy whodunnit series.
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Reviews‘The King’s Horseman’: Toronto Review
Biyi Bandele’s bustling, vibrant final film is an adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s acclaimed anti-colonial play
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Reviews‘Unruly’: Toronto Review
Malou Reymann’s accomplished second feature is the powerful story of a young woman institutionalised in 1930s Denmark
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Reviews‘A Gaza Weekend’: Toronto Review
Basil Khalil’s feature debut finds the humour in a couple hiding out from a mutant virus in the Gaza Strip
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Reviews‘Allelujah’: Toronto Review
The patients of a geriatric unit fight to save it from closure in Richard Eyre’s well-meaning if baggy drama
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Reviews‘The Hanging Sun’: Venice Review
UK/Italian Jo Nesbo adaptation from Sky closes out the 79th Venice Film Festival with a thud
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Reviews‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’: Toronto Review
Daniel Radcliffe stars in this Midnight Madness recreation for director Eric Appel and the Roku channel
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Reviews‘Brother’: Toronto Review
Clement Virgo’s supremely confident and affecting drama stars Aaron Pierre and Lamar Johnson as siblings growing up in Toronto in the 1980s
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Reviews‘The Woman King’: Toronto Review
Viola Davis stuns in this all-action, all-female, West Africa-set warrior epic from Sony
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Reviews‘Sisu’: Toronto Review
Bloody survival thriller set in the Finnish wilderness pits retreating Nazis against a grizzled lone hero
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Reviews‘Emily’: Toronto Review
Emma Mackey is luminous in Frances O’Connor’s distinguished biography of the ‘Wuthering Heights’ writer
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Reviews‘Butcher’s Crossing’: Toronto Review
Gabe Polsky’s adaptation of the John Williams novel features a committed Nicolas Cage traversing familiar Western territory
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Reviews‘Our Ties’: Venice Review
Roschdy Zem’s sixth feature, co-starring him and co-written with Maiwenn, competes at Venice
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Reviews‘Clare’: Venice Review
The life and times of the founder of the Poor Clares, as written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli
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Reviews‘The Inspection’: Toronto Review
Elegance Bratton’s impressive debut looks at the hot-button issue of homosexuality in the military, viewed through the lens of his own experience
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Reviews‘The Listener’: Venice Review
Tessa Thompson’s poised presence elevates Steve Buscemi’s intimate drama about a helpline volunteer
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Reviews‘No Bears’: Venice Review
Imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a powerful statement of tenacity and defiance