All articles by Tim Grierson, Senior US critic
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‘Is This Thing On?’ review: Bradley Cooper’s bittersweet third feature stars Will Arnett and Laura Dern
Arnett and Dern impress as a couple navigating divorce in Cooper’s latest awards contender
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‘Tron: Ares’ review: Jared Leto goes off grid in bombastic sequel to classic AI franchise
Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee and Jeff Bridges also star in Joachim Ronning’s uneven actioner
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‘Babystar’ review: Chilly German debut explores family life in the influencer age
Maja Bons plays a teenage star questioning her family’s social media celebrity in Joscha Bongard’s timely drama
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‘One Battle After Another’ review: Leonardo DiCaprio powers Paul Thomas Anderson’s gripping thriller
Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor also star in the filmmaker’s audacious tale of revolutionary fighters
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‘Normal’ review: Bob Odenkirk’s small town sheriff heads Ben Wheatley’s uninspired shoot-’em-up
Odenkirk reunites with Nobody franchise creator and screenwriter Derek Kolstad
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‘Nuremberg’ review: Russell Crowe is Nazi officer Hermann Goring in earnest courtroom drama
James Vanderbilt’s second feature dramatises Goring’s 1940s trial and also stars Rami Malek and Michael Shannon
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‘Hamnet’ review: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal power Chloe Zhao’s potent Shakespeare drama
‘The Rider’ and ‘Nomadland’ director confidently adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the genesis of ‘Hamlet’
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‘Ballad Of A Small Player’ review: Colin Farrell is on a losing streak in Edward Berger’s gambling drama
Tilda Swinton also stars in the director’s Macao-set follow up to ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ and ‘Conclave’
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‘Roofman’ review: Channing Tatum charms in real-life crime caper from Derek Cianfrance
Kirsten Dunst also stars in ’Blue Valentine’ director’s conventional spin on quirky tale
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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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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 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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‘Hamlet’ review: A powerful Riz Ahmed fuels unfussy Shakespeare adaptation set in modern London
Morfydd Clark and Joe Alwyn also star in Aneil Karia’s reimagining of the classic play
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‘John Candy: I Like Me’ review: Colin Hanks doc pays warm tribute to Canadian comedy legend
Toronto’s opening film features a host of luminaries including Tom Hanks, Bill Murray and Catherine O’Hara
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‘Notes Of A True Criminal’ review: Alexander Rodnyansky explores Ukraine’s plight, past and present
Co-directing with Andriy Alferov, the Ukrainian filmmaker presents a deeply personal documentary
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‘Marc By Sofia’ review: Sofia Coppola profiles designer Marc Jacobs in this warm documentary
The pair’s longstanding friendship results in a lightweight film which premieres out of competition in Venice