All Reviews articles – Page 49
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‘Dicks: The Musical’: Toronto Review
Off-Broadway adaptation is a musical riot although there’s diminishing returns to this campily cult show
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Toronto Review
Viggo Mortensen’s second as director is a Western starring Vicky Krieps which marks an ambitious step up in scope
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‘Dumb Money’: Toronto Review
Director Craig Gillespie recreates the 2020 GameStop share affair with Paul Dano in the lead role
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‘An Endless Sunday’: Venice Review
Long hot summer Sundays in Rome form the basis of this Italian debut, produced by Wim Wenders
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‘Woman Of The Hour’: Toronto Review
‘A tremendous directorial debut’ from Anna Kendrick in this true-life serial killer drama which takes unexpected twists and turns
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‘American Fiction’: Toronto Review
Cord Jefferson’s impressive debut is a portrait of a frustrated Black author played with relish by Jeffrey Wright
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‘Shoshana’: Toronto Review
Michael Winterbottom carefully recreates Tel Aviv in the 1930s, where much of the tensions that affect Israel today are starting to bubble over
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‘Reptile’: Toronto Review
Benicio del Toro impresses in an otherwise lacklustre Netflix cop drama
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‘The Convert’: Toronto Review
Lee Tamahori returns to New Zealand with this 1830s-set story of a man of God, played by Guy Pearce, and two warring tribes
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‘Les Indesirables’: Toronto Review
A wealthy mayor takes on a Parisian immigrant tenement in Ladj Ly’s highly-charged follow up to ‘Les Miserables’
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‘North Star’: Toronto Review
Kristin Scott Thomas’s directorial debut, starring Scarlett Johansson, draws heavily on her own life
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‘We Grown Now’: Toronto Review
Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project is the setting for this early 1990s coming of age drama
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‘Memory’: Venice Review
Michel Franco tackles multiple harrowing issues in this New York-set drama starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard
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‘Unicorns’: Toronto Review
Sally El Hosaini’s follow-up to ‘The Swimmers’ is set in the world of ‘gaysian’ drag queen cabaret.
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'Out Of Season': Venice Review
Stéphane Brizé changes register for this romance starring Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher
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‘Gonzo Girl’: Toronto Review
Willem Dafoe and Camila Morrone star in Patrica Arquette’s directorial debut, loosely based on Hunter S. Thompson
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‘Woman Of…’: Venice Review
A trans-woman’s entire life comes under the lens in Malgorzata Szumowska abd Michał Englert’s tough Polish drama.
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‘Vermin’: Venice Review
Venice Critics Week closes with this skin-crawling French horror in which a housing project is beset by killer spiders
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‘The Royal Hotel’: Toronto Review
Kitty Green delivers a further devastating drama on toxic masculinity, working again with ’The Assistant’s’ Julia Garner
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‘The Boy And The Heron’: Toronto Review
TIFF opener is Hayao Miyazaki’s long awaited return to film-making