Report From Telluride
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‘Waves’ Film Review: Trey Edward Shults’ Moving Drama Lets Love Rule
Telluride Film Festival 2019: The film starring Sterling K. Brown and Kelvin Harrison Jr. is about a choice we all make: Do we hold onto hatred or do we let go of past anger?
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‘Judy’ Film Review: Renee Zellweger Gets to the Core of Judy Garland’s Tragic Decline
Telluride Film Festival 2019: Rupert Goold’s film watches Garland fall apart as Zellweger brings the legend to vivid, full-color life
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‘Ford v Ferrari’ Film Review: Christian Bale and Matt Damon Feel the Need for Speed
Telluride Film Festival 2019: James Mangold’s film about auto racing is a celebration of the kind of movie most American studios have given up on making
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‘Ford v Ferrari,’ ‘Uncut Gems,’ ‘Judy’ Headed to Telluride Film Festival
The three-day festival will also present tributes to actors Renee Zellweger and Adam Driver and director Philip Kaufman
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‘Destroyer’ Film Review: Nicole Kidman Is Repulsively Brilliant in Hardcore Action Flick
In this dark drama from director Karyn Kusama, Kidman plays a woman reduced to grit and sinew and resolved to see justice done at any cost
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‘The Front Runner’ Film Review: Politics, Sex and Media Collide in Hugh Jackman Drama
Telluride Film Festival 2018: Jason Reitman’s second film of 2018 offers a wild ride through Gary Hart’s tumultuous 1988 presidential campaign
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‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’ Film Review: Morgan Neville’s Orson Welles Doc Is Cineaste Catnip
Made to coincide with the completed “The Other Side of the Wind,” this making-of tale shows Welles in all his maverick, maddening glory
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‘Hostiles’ Film Review: Christian Bale Drives a Great American Western
Scott Cooper’s 19th-century drama offers an echo of hope amid the darkness
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‘Battle of the Sexes’ Review: In a Hard Year for Women, Emma Stone Provides Reason to Cheer
Telluride Film Festival: Stone has never been better than she is in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ movie about Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
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‘Eating Animals’ Review: Natalie Portman Narrates Essential Documentary on Meat Consumption
Telluride Film Festival: Documentary paints a bleak picture of the damage of factory farming, but stops short of advocating unrealistic demands
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‘Lady Bird’ Review: Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan Create Fearless Coming-of-Age Story
Telluride Film Festival: The first-time director and her star give us one of the most intriguing, infuriating and magnetic characters in recent memory
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‘Maudie’ Review: Sally Hawkins Saves an Otherwise Missed Opportunity
Rather than tell the true story of its fascinating heroine — an arthritic Canadian artist — the film settles for predictable, underwritten romance
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‘Moonlight’ Review: Barry Jenkins Tracks a Tragic Childhood in Powerful Film
The writer-director of “Medicine for Melancholy” skillfully and hauntingly examines the pain of being raised by a drug addict in a homophobic community
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‘Una’ Telluride Review: Rooney Mara Molestation Drama Undercuts Its Own Impact
In this adaptation of the stage play “Blackbird,” director Benedict Andrews keeps the audience at a distance, and drives a chemistry-killing wedge between Mara and Ben Mendelsohn
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‘The Ivory Game’ Telluride Review: Urgent Documentary About Elephant Killing Is a Roar for Action
An extinction crisis for one of earth’s mightiest creatures, fed by an illegal trade in ivory, is made vividly clear in an advocacy documentary that moves like an espionage thriller
