All articles by Lee Marshall
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Reviews‘Trains’: IDFA Review
IDFA top prize-winner is a timeless train trip through black-and-white archive footage
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Reviews‘Writing Hawa’: IDFA Review
IDFA breakout charts one Afghan mother’s quest to educate herself - just as the Taliban rolls into Kabul
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Reviews‘An American Pastoral’: IDFA Review
Timely documentary tracks small-town school board elections in Pennsylvania
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Reviews‘The Shadow Scholars’: IDFA Review
Steve McQueen-produced doc shines a light on Kenya’s academic ghostwriter-for-hire industry
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Reviews‘The Propagandist’: IDFA Review
Chilling portrait of Dutch filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen
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Reviews‘A Want In Her’: IDFA Review
Affecting documentary sees Irish artist Myrid Carten turn her camera on her troubled mother
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Reviews‘The Shepherd And The Bear’: IDFA Review
Immersive documentary follows the controversial reintroduction of wild bears to the remote French Pyrenees
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Reviews‘About A Hero’: IDFA Review
IDFA opener is an uneven AI-generated hybrid murder mystery in the style of Werner Herzog
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Reviews’Marco’: San Sebastián Review
Eduard Fernandez grounds this Incredible true-life story of a fake Holocaust survivor that closes San Sebastian
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Reviews‘The Time It Takes’: Venice Review
Francesca Comencini’s autobiographical drama explores her relationship with her filmmaker father Luigi
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Reviews‘Stranger Eyes’: Venice Review
Singapore’s first film to compete at Venice is a closely-observed mystery about a child who has vanished
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Reviews‘Diva Futura’: Venice Review
Rich, lengthy biopic explores the life and work of Italian pornographer Riccardo Schicchi
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Reviews‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review
Scandar Copti follows the Oscar-nominated Ajami with this compelling spliced drama
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Reviews‘2073’: Venice Review
Asif Kapadia blends documentary and fiction to present a damning hypothesis of Earth’s dystopian future
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Reviews‘The Mohican’: Venice Review
An unassuming Corsican goatherd becomes the figurehead of a resistance movement in this assured thriller
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Reviews‘Wolfs’: Venice Review
George Clooney and Brad Pitt hit the comedy bullseye as two solitary fixers forced to work together
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Reviews‘Vittoria’: Venice Review
A working-class Naples mother dreams of adding to her family in this affecting and very real drama
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Reviews‘Feeling Better’: Venice Review
Italian actor-turned-director Valerio Mastandrea imagines the rich internal life of coma patients in this hit-and-miss comedy
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Reviews‘Death Will Come’: Locarno Review
A female contract killer takes on a job for a prominent gangster in Christoph Hochhausler’s Brussels-set noir
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Reviews‘Two To One’: Munich Review
Sandra Huller takes a central role in this sentimental heist comedy set in East Germany of 1990 which kicks off the Munich Film Festival