Festival reviews – Page 97
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Reviews‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’: Venice Review
A terrific debut from Mounia Akl set in a Lebanese mountain idyll – until the landfill arrives next door
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Reviews‘Charlotte’: Toronto Review
The troubled wartime life of artist Charlotte Salomon is animated in this graceful European production
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Reviews‘The Good House’: Toronto Review
Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline co-star in this New England-set domestic drama
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Reviews‘Dear Evan Hansen’: Toronto Review
‘Emotional manipulations that sometimes border on cruel’: Ben Platt reprises his role for Universal’s screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical
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Reviews‘The Survivor’: Toronto Review
Barry Levinson casts Ben Foster as Harry Haft, a boxer traumatised by his experiences in a Nazi death camp
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Reviews‘Drunken Birds’: Toronto Review
A Mexican migrant worker searches for his lover in Ivan Grbovic’s lush Canadian drama
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Reviews‘Good Madam’: Toronto Review
Jenna Cato Bass examines the horror of servitude in South Africa’s affluent gated communities
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Reviews‘Inexorable’: Toronto Review
Fabrice du Welz’s domestic thriller sees a stranger strike at the heart of the prosperous literally family headed by Benoit Poelvoorde
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Reviews‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’: Toronto Review
Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield portray notorious televangalists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
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Reviews‘The Mad Women’s Ball’: Toronto Review
The fifth feature from Melanie Laurent is a lavish tale of headstrong women in 19th century Paris
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Reviews‘Nobody Has To Know’: Toronto Review
A case of amnesia rewrites the past in this surprising Scottish Highlands romance
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Reviews‘The Middle Man’: Toronto Review
Bent Hamer’s intriguing drama may be set in America but it retains a distinctly Scandinavian accent
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Reviews‘Lakewood’: Toronto Review
Naomi Watts is a mother on the run in Philip Noyce’s manipulative melodrama
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Reviews‘Benediction’: Toronto Review
Terence Davies explores the impact of war on poet Siegfried Sassoon in this lyrical biopic
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Reviews‘The Humans’: Toronto Review
An unsettling, tightly-acted comedy/drama from Stephen Karam, adapting his own stage play
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Reviews‘The Starling’: Toronto Review
Melissa McCarthy and Kevin Kline star in this bereavement drama directed by Theodore Melfi
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Reviews‘Beba’: Toronto Review
Afro-Latino filmmaker Rebeca Huntt makes her debut with a striking biographical documentary
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Reviews‘Montana Story’: Toronto Review
Hayley Lu Richardson and Owen Teague star in this modest yet powerful family drama