All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 18
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Reviews‘Tora’s Husband’: Busan Review
Rima Das’ intimate drama shows a family man’s life unravelling in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Reviews‘Prisoner’s Daughter’: Toronto Review
Brian Cox stars as an ex-con while Kate Beckinsale is his disinterested daughter in Catherine Hardwicke’s Las Vegas-set drama
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Reviews‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’: Toronto Review
Shekhar Kapur makes his return to the big screen with this Anglo-Asian romantic comedy
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Reviews‘Wildflower’: Toronto Review
The only child of intellectually disabled parents faces difficult decisions in this narratively conventional coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘The Good Nurse’: Toronto Review
‘Superbly-acted’ thriller stars Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in Tobias Lindholm’s adaptation of a real-life case
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Reviews‘Baby Ruby’: Toronto Review
Noémie Merlant plays an instamum whose idealised life with husband Kit Harington starts to fall apart in Bess Wohl’s feature debut
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Reviews‘The Menu’: Toronto Review
Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes anchor ’Succession’ director Mark Mylod’s caviar-black move to features
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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‘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‘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‘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 Listener’: Venice Review
Tessa Thompson’s poised presence elevates Steve Buscemi’s intimate drama about a helpline volunteer
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Reviews‘The Damned Don’t Cry’: Venice Review
A mother and son reside on the fringes of Moroccan society in Fyzal Boulifa’s impressive second feature
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Reviews‘The Son’: Venice Review
Florian Zeller follows up ‘The Son’ with another family drama, starring Hugh Jackman and Vanessa Kirby
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Reviews‘Saint Omer’: Venice Review
Alice Diop’s fiction debut uses a real-life courtroom drama to challenge media assumptions
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Reviews‘On The Fringe’: Venice Review
Lives on the edge in this Spanish social-realist drama starring Penelope Cruz and Luis Tosar
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Reviews‘Amanda’: Venice Review
First-timer Carolina Cavalli presents a distinctive portrait of a ‘friendless weirdo’ living in Turin
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Reviews‘Love Life’: Venice Review
Family tensions are exacerbated by tragedy in Koji Fukada’s emotional melodrama
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Reviews‘Blanquita’: Venice Review
A real life Chilean child abuse case forms the basis of Fernando Guzzoni’s atmospheric thriller