Report From Telluride
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Film Festival Audiences Get Up for Anything These Days. Maybe they Shouldn’t | Commentary
This article will take you 10 minutes to read — about as long as Yorgos Lanthimos’ standing ovation last week in Venice
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‘The Royal Hotel’ Review: Kitty Green Reunites With ‘The Assistant’ Star Julia Garner in Riveting Thriller
Telluride 2023: Garner and Jessica Henwick lead the way with guts and muscle in this unnerving and atmospheric genre exercise
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‘Janet Planet’ Review: A Textured Yet Wearisome Coming-of-Age Tale
Telluride 2023: Julianne Nicholson and newcomer Zoe Ziegler ably navigate an even-keeled mother-daughter story that feels hushed to a fault
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‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Errol Morris Explores a World of Betrayal in John le Carré Documentary
Telluride Film Festival: Morris creates a personal portrait that goes as deep as his subject wants it to go but never feels as if the late author is getting away with anything
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‘The Holdovers’ Review: Alexander Payne’s ’70s-Set Christmastime Movie Is Familiar and Cozily Beautiful
Telluride 2023: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and newcomer Dominic Sessa play sad people who lift one another up over the holidays at a posh New England school
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‘Saltburn’ Review: Emerald Fennell Reinforces Her Cinematic Panache With a Delightfully Weird Drama
Telluride 2023: Barry Keoghan is brilliant in Fennell’s bold, if imperfect, ‘Promising Young Woman’ follow-up
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‘All of Us Strangers’ Review: Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal Break Your Heart in Andrew Haigh’s Sublime Masterpiece
Telluride 2023: A rumination on grief and love, Haigh’s poignant and understated ghost story is one of the best films of the year
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‘American Symphony’ Review: Documentary Captures Jon Batiste’s Personal and Professional Struggles
Telluride Film Festival: Matthew Heineman’s doc jumps between uplift and heartbreak, between Batiste’s career pressures and his wife’s fight for survival
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‘Women Talking’ Review: Sarah Polley’s Searing Drama Contemplates Revenge and Forgiveness
The sexually-abused members of a religious community get to decide what happens next, and the results are riveting
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‘If These Walls Could Sing’ Review: Abbey Road Studio Gets a Slight, Sunny Tribute
First-time director Mary McCartney takes an affectionate look at the London studio that her dad’s band helped make famous
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‘Empire of Light’ Review: Sam Mendes’ Love Letter to Cinema Lacks Focus
This reverie on movie palaces often forgets the part about actually loving film, among many other script issues
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‘Retrograde’ Review: Visceral Doc Puts Viewers Squarely Inside the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
The director of “Cartel Land” and “The First Wave” offers no easy answers about the end of the war, just the haunting faces of those involved
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‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ Review: Fresh Take on D.H. Lawrence Classic Doesn’t Skimp on Eroticism
Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell offer scorching sexuality in a film that finds new tones in an oft-adapted story
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‘The Wonder’ Review: Florence Pugh Stuns as a Woman of Science in a Community of Faith
The director of “A Fantastic Woman” and the author of “Room” find a vehicle that perfectly blends their sensibilities