All articles by Robert Daniels
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Reviews‘It’s My Time’ review: Michelle Yeoh charms as a Chinese septuagenarian Rubik’s Cube champ in uplifting real-life drama
Bai Xue’s drama has its North American premiere as a Toronto Gala Presentation
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Reviews‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ review: Takashi Miike’s muddled addition to the bad cop franchise lacks his signature flair
The film follows Abel Ferrara’s ’Bad Lieutenant’ and Werner Herzog’s ’Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans’
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Reviews‘Paradise Lost’ review: Yeon Sang-ho’s AI thriller struggles to bring its provocative premise to life
The Train to Busan director explores grief through virtual reality in an uneven high-concept mystery
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Reviews‘Angh’ review: A vivid, haunting 1960s-set elegy for an Indian community facing cultural erasure
Theja Rio’s powerful debut explores the spiritual cost of assimilation in a remote Nagaland village
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Reviews‘Onwards And Sideways’ review: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney form a bittersweet bond in John Madden’s poignant Parkinson’s drama
Madden’s latest work premieres in Toronto before opening in the UK on November 16
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Reviews‘Prima Facie’ review: Cynthia Erivo takes the stand in underwhelming adaptation of acclaimed one-woman play
The film premieres in Toronto before heading to London
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Reviews‘I Play Rocky’ review: Peter Farrelly turns story behind Sylvester Stallone’s breakout into a sentimental, uninspiring pastiche
Anthony Ippolito plays Stallone alongside a cast that also includes Tracy Letts, Jay Duplass and AnnaSophia Robb
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Reviews‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ review: Mahershala Ali is outstanding as a Muslim assassin in Bassam Tariq’s audacious follow-up to ‘Mogul Mowgli’
The film premieres as a Toronto Special Presentation before heading to London
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Reviews‘Everybody Wants To F*ck Me’ review: A committed Taron Egerton boosts London-set sex comedy
Jonathan Schey’s feature debut premieres as a Toronto Special Presentation
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Reviews‘Wild, Wild East’ review: Second World War thriller set in occupied Poland starts strong but can’t sustain its intrigue
Jan Holubek’s Venice Platform premiere is part Western, part noir.
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Reviews‘Karma’ review: Marion Cotillard’s blistering performance fails to boost Guillaume Canet’s conventional thriller
Cotillard and Canet’s latest collaboration premieres Out Of Competition in Cannes
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Reviews‘Clarissa’ review: Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo anchor bold Lagos-set ‘Mrs Dalloway’ adaptation
The Esiri brothers’ Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title relocate Virginia Woolf’s potent themes to modern Nigeria
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Reviews‘Wishful Thinking’ review: Maya Hawke and Lewis Pullman feel the power of love in potent SXSW winner
The feature debut of writer/director Graham Parkes won SXSW’s narrative feature prize
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Reviews‘DreamQuil’ review: Elizabeth Banks shoulders dual role in detached retro-futuristic drama
The feature debut from visual artist Alex Prager also stars John C Reilly, Kathryn Newton and Juliette Lewis
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Reviews‘Forbidden Fruits’ review: Horror comedy about Texas teen witches casts a campy, playful spell
Diablo Cody produces Meredith Alloway’s SXSW premiere
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Reviews‘Hokum’ review: Adam Scott embarks on a nightmarish trip in chilling horror from Ireland’s Damian McCarthy
The filmmaker’s follow-up to ’Oddity’ premieres at SXSW before May theatrical opening
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Reviews‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ review: Vince Vaughn and James Marsden head riotous time travel comedy
BenDavid Grabinski’s SXSW premiere also stars Eliza González and Keith David
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Reviews‘Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’ review: Samara Weaving returns in bloody, bland horror sequel
SXSW premiere also stars David Cronenberg, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood
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Reviews‘I Love Boosters’ review: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie and Taylour Paige anchor Boots Riley’s anarchic SXSW opener
LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore and Don Cheadle also star in riotous pro-union comedy
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Reviews‘Tutu’ review: Sam Pollard doc is galvanizing study of South African leader Desmond Tutu
Pollard’s incisive work follows ’MLK/FBI’ and ’Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me’