All articles by Wendy Ide – Page 13
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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
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Reviews‘The Whale’: Venice Review
Brendan Fraser brings a big heart to Darren Aronofsky’s faltering adaptation of a stage play about a man eating himself to death
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Reviews‘L’Immensita’: Venice Review
Penelope Cruz is ’a cross between Sophia Loren and a solar flare’ in Emanuele Crialese’s beguiling drama
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Reviews‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’: Venice Review
Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family is positioned against her singular background as an artist in Laura Poitras’s absorbing documentary
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Reviews‘A Couple’: Venice Review
Frederick Wiseman’s fiction feature is a monologue taken from the diaries of Tolstoy’s wife
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Reviews‘Blue Jean’: Venice Review
Georgia Oakley’s impressive debut, set in the UK during the introduction of Section 28, features a knockout performance from Rosy McEwen
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Reviews‘Stonewalling’: Venice Review
Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka explore the limited options available to the younger generation of contemporary China