Festival reviews – Page 7
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Reviews‘Kill The Jockey’: Venice Review
Nahuel Perez Biscayart is striking as an Argentinian jockey reinventing himself in Luis Ortega’s freewheeling drama
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‘September 5’: Venice Review
Peter Sarsgaard stars in this tense newsroom drama set during the 1972 Munich Olympics
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Reviews‘Maria’: Venice Review
Angelina Jolie hits the notes as opera legend Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s latest biopic
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Reviews’Riefenstahl’: Venice Review
Clear-eyed portrait of Third Reich German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and her post-War attempts to rehabilitate her image
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‘Apocalypse In The Tropics’: Venice Review
Petra Costa follows The Edge Of Democracy with this look at the rise of religious populism in Brazilian politics
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‘Separated’: Venice Review
Veteran documentarian Errol Morris turns his attention to the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policies
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’Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’: Venice Review
Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder take a ghoulish trip down memory lane in Tim Burton’s full-blooded sequel
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‘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‘Dwelling Among The Gods’: Sarajevo Review
Vuk Rsumovic follows up Venice Critics Week winner ’No One’s Child’ with this sober Serbia-set refugee drama
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Reviews‘Mother Mara’: Sarajevo Review
Serbia’s Mirjana Karanovic directs and stars as a woman redefining herself after the death of her only son
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Reviews‘Lollipop’: Edinburgh Review
A woman fights to regain her children in this affecting British debut drawn from personal experience
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Reviews‘The Ceremony’: Edinburgh Review
Two undocumented migrants take a strange road trip through the wilds of Yorkshire in this black-and-white British debut
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Reviews‘Smiles And Kisses You’: Edinburgh Review
Sensitive documentary explores the relationship between a North Carolina man and his AI-enhanced sex doll
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Reviews‘A Shrine’: Edinburgh Review
Mobile phone-shot drama about an Iranian ex-pat in Montreal and a dubious get-rich-quick scheme he comes to regret
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Reviews‘At The Door Of The House, Who Will Come Knocking’: Sarajevo Review
Maja Novakovic’s award-winning documentary is an enigmatic portrait of life in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Reviews‘To Kill A Wolf’: Edinburgh Review
Strong debut effectively updates Little Red Riding Hood to the modern day forests of Oregon
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Reviews‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process
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Reviews‘Dad’s Lullaby’: Sarajevo Review
The impact of the war in Ukraine is felt through the experiences of a single family in this debut documentary
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Reviews‘Xibalba Monster’: Edinburgh Review
The Mayan ruins in Yucatan are fertile ground for a young boy’s fascination with death in this Edinburgh highlight
