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‘Sacrifice’ review: Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy head muddled Romain Gavras eco thriller
Vincent Cassel and Salma Hayek Pinault join the starry cast of Gavras’s ‘Athena’ follow-up
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‘Hedda’ review: Tessa Thompson crackles at the heart of Nia DaCosta’s uneven Ibsen adaptation
DaCosta updates Henrik Ibsen’s classic play ’Hedda Gabler’ to a modern dinner party setting
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‘Good News’ review: Byun Sung-hyun turns 1970 hijacking into satirical Netflix thriller
Sul Kyung-gu stars in the ‘Kill Boksoon’ director’s kinetic dramatisation of the hijacking of Japanese Airlines Flight 351
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‘Rental Family’ review: Brendan Fraser shines as a lost soul seeking connection in Tokyo-set drama
Director Hikari follows up her 2019 debut ‘37 Seconds’ with tale of American actor adrift in Japan
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'California Schemin'' review: James McAvoy directorial debut is engaging real-life Scottish rap tale
McAvoy tells the true story of two Dundee rappers who pretended to be American duo Silibil N’ Brains
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‘Bad Apples’ review: Saoirse Ronan is a teacher driven to extremes in nervy UK thriller
Swedish director Jonatan Etzler makes his English-language debut with adaptation of Danish novel
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‘Good Fortune’ review: Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves join director-star Aziz Ansari in impressive debut
Sandra Oh and Keke Palmer round out the cast for Ansari’s body-swap comedy, which premieres in Toronto
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‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ review: Daniel Craig returns in crowd-pleasing sequel
Craig is joined by an all-star cast including Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Mila Kunis for Rian Johnson’s third ’Knives Out’ instalment
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‘Dog 51’ review: Cedric Jimenez’s high-octane thriller is set in a near-future Paris
Adele Exarchopoulos and Gilles Lellouche star in engaging Venice Film Festival closer
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‘Good Boy’ review: Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough anchor off-kilter morality tale
The pair play a married couple determined to rehabilitate a wayward boy in Jan Komasa’s intriguing Toronto premiere
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‘Fuze’ review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson heads rote London-set action thriller from David Mackenzie
Mechanical offering from ‘Animal Kingdom’ director sees Taylor-Johnson as a bomb expert embroiled in a bank robbery
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‘Christy’ review: Sydney Sweeney is a knockout in David Michôd’s broad boxing biopic
Toronto premiere follows the tumultous life of boxer Christy Martin and her abusive trainer husband
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‘The Ugly’ review: A murder mystery links past and present in Yeon Sang-ho’s calibrated thriller
‘Train To Busan’ director’s Toronto premiere stars Park Jeong-min as a man searching for his mother’s killer
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‘The Lost Bus’ review: Paul Greengrass teams with Matthew McConaughey for uneven California wildfire drama
America Ferrera also stars in intense Apple TV+ disaster movie which premieres in Toronto
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‘Steve’ review: Cillian Murphy impresses at the heart of Netflix’s Max Porter adaptation
The actor reteams with ‘Small Things Like These’ director Tim Mielants for propulsive Toronto premiere
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‘Silent Friend’ review: Hungarian filmmaker Ildiko Enyedi’s paean to nature stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Contemplative Venice Competition title weaves three human stories across a German university campus
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‘The Sun Rises On Us All’ review: Estranged lovers reunite in Cai Shanjun’s slow-burn drama
The Chinese director explores themes of guilt and betrayal in his Venice competition title
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‘Bravo Bene!’ review: Sicily’s Franco Maresco puts himself at the centre of his meta-mockumentary
Surreal Venice Competition title is a layered satire of the director’s own inability to make a film.
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‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’ review: Affectionate documentary profiles the Hollywood legend and Hitchcock star
Director Alexandre O’ Philippe joins Novak for a look back at her career, and her most famous role
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‘100 Nights Of Hero’ review: Maika Monroe and Emma Corrin star in Julia Jackman’s feminist fable
Jackman’s Venice Critics’ Week closer also stars Nicholas Galitzine, Felicity Jones and Charlie XCX