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Toronto Film Festival

The Christophers – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Steven Soderbergh casts Sir Ian McKellen and Michaela Cole in his London-set art world drama.
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Toronto Film Festival

The Fence – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Claire Denis’ fourth film shot in Africa concerns an American foreman attempting to smooth over the death of a worker, starring Matt Dillon and Isaach de Bankolé.
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Toronto Film Festival

Sacrifice – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Roman Gavras’ timely satire, set in the world of the über rich, fails to cut despite its starry cast.
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Toronto Film Festival

Hamlet – first-look review

by Jenna Mahale

Aneil Karia’s Hamlet, starring Riz Ahmed as the doomed prince, is an occasionally beautiful but largely inert exercise.
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Toronto Film Festival

Christy – first-look review

by Mark Asch

David Michôd’s biopic of pioneering boxer Christy Martin is a serviceable showcase for Sydney Sweeney.
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Toronto Film Festival

Maddie's Secret – first-look review

by Mark Asch

John Early’s directorial debut, about a young woman struggling with an eating disorder, is a sincere and surprising comedic triumph.
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Venice Film Festival

Below The Clouds – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Gianfranco Rosi’s study of Italy’s legendary Mount Vesuvius is a beautiful but occasionally stagnant portrait of life near an active volcano.
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Venice Film Festival

Silent Friend – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Hungarian filmmaker ldikó Enyedi turns a university’s botanical garden into a site of limitless curiosity as an ancient tree observes the rhythms of three lives over the course of a century.
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Partnership

Re-anticipating Megalopolis

by David Jenkins

Ahead of its release on MUBI, we explore how hints of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis can be seen in a number of the filmmaker’s past classics.
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Venice Film Festival

100 Nights of Hero – first-look review

by Laura Venning

Julia Jackman’s adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel is a charming, ambitious queer fantasy.

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