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\n\tTelluride<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tA lonely gay London writer, orphaned young, revisits his past while starting a new romance with a neighbor in Andrew Haigh\u2019s hauntingly beautiful study of grief, love and family. With a quartet of shattering performances from Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, this is a soul-stirring work, heartfelt and unforgettable.\u00a0\u2014 DAVID ROONEY<\/p>\n \n\tTelluride<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tMatthew Heineman\u2019s deeply moving doc follows musician Jon Batiste and his life partner, Suleika Jaouad, through a year of highs (his exploding career) and lows (her cancer recurrence). It\u2019s a concert film, a love story and a snapshot of America\u2019s dogged emergence from the pandemic.\u00a0\u2014 DANIEL FIENBERG<\/p>\n \n\tToronto<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tHayao Miyazaki emerges from retirement with a profoundly personal swan song \u2014 a rumination on love, loss and the intersection between life and death in a world spinning out of control. Centering on a grieving boy and the bird who offers to lead him to his late mother, the film looks astonishing even by Miyazaki\u2019s soaring standards.\u00a0\u2014 D.R.<\/p>\n \n\tToronto<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tNicolas Cage has never been as flat-out hilarious as he is in Kristoffer Borgli\u2019s gleefully dark, savagely sharp satire, playing a meek college professor who keeps popping up in people\u2019s nightmares. The star takes a whiny victim role and turns it into a master class in reactive comic acting.\u00a0\u2014 MICHAEL RECHTSHAFFEN<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tRyusuke Hamaguchi follows his Oscar winner\u00a0Drive My Car<\/em>\u00a0with this haunting, slow-burn drama about the conflict created when a Tokyo company\u2019s project to build a luxury camping retreat threatens the purity of a village\u2019s spring water supply. The film builds a hypnotic momentum, along with a quiet sense of dread that sneaks up on you.\u00a0\u2014 D.R.<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tAgnieszka Holland\u2019s profoundly moving, flawlessly executed multistrand drama, shot in stark black and white, tracks refugees from various nations in 2021 trying to cross from Russia ally Belarus into EU member Poland. Facing inevitably tragic consequences, the characters become pawns in a game of \u201cpass the parcel\u201d between guards on both sides of the title\u2019s green border.\u00a0\u2014 LESLIE FELPERIN<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tA Turkish criminal defense attorney juggles urgent matters on the job and within her family in Selman Nacar\u2019s drama, which packs a sustained wallop of tension and unraveling into a concise 84-minute running time. T\u00fclin \u00d6zen, in the lead role, delivers a pitch-perfect turn as an astute professional who hasn\u2019t time for her own vulnerability.\u00a0\u2014 SHERI LINDEN<\/p>\n \n\tToronto<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tCarrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne are exceptional as sisters who reunite to care for their father in Azazel Jacobs\u2019 sharp, tender tale of sibling bonds strained to the snapping point. The setup is familiar, but the film is wry, vivid and moving in unexpected ways \u2014 a testament to Jacobs\u2019 singular touch, his gently eccentric blend of comic absurdism and emotional generosity.\u00a0\u2014 JON FROSCH<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tA Senegalese teenager (indelibly played by non-pro Seydou Sarr) leaves home on a quest across thousands of miles to reach Europe in Italian director Matteo Garrone\u2019s emotionally searing but ultimately uplifting epic. It\u2019s a painstakingly composed work, an adventure peppered with moments of nauseating horror but also ravishing beauty and grace.\u00a0\u2014 L.F.<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tBradley Cooper directs and stars here as composer Leonard Bernstein while a never-better Carey Mulligan plays his wife of 27 years, Felicia Montealegre. Amplifying its force with thrilling use of the subject\u2019s music, this is a transfixing biographical love story and a layered examination of a relationship that might be grossly oversimplified today as that of a closeted gay man and his \u201cbeard.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 D.R.<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe latest from great American documaker Frederick Wiseman is a four-hour immersion inside one of France\u2019s finest restaurants, which has been run by the same family for four generations. Set in the kitchens, dining rooms and neighboring farms of a Michelin three-star establishment in the bucolic Loire region, the film uncovers the alchemy that makes such places succeed.\u00a0\u2014 JORDAN MINTZER<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tA brilliant absurdist comedy and reflection on female freedom, Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 Venice winner adapts Alasdair Gray\u2019s novel about a woman who reinvents herself after being brought back from death by a mad scientist. Stuffed with rude delights, spry wit and radical fantasy, the movie is a feast. And Emma Stone gorges on it in a fearless, career-defining lead performance.\u00a0\u2014 D.R.<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tCailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi play Priscilla and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola\u2019s delicate,\u00a0quietly affecting drama, which tells\u00a0a famous love story but places at its center the young woman who becomes caught up in a romantic daydream. The movie might appear on its surface to show a protagonist without agency, but the Priscilla portrayed here is always attuned to\u00a0her own needs.\u00a0\u2014 D.R.<\/p>\n \n\tTelluride<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tEthan Hawke\u2019s sublime portrait of Southern\u00a0writer Flannery O\u2019Connor is distinguished by its visual elegance, its electric leaps between an author\u2019s life and her work, and the delicious intensity of the performances, with Maya Hawke and Laura Linney each taking on a half-dozen interconnected roles. It\u2019s a film rich in nuance, detail and creative\u00a0juice.\u00a0\u2014 S.L.<\/p>\n \n\tVenice<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tWes Anderson\u2019s perfectly crafted mini-marvel of a Roald Dahl adaptation tells the story of a rich Brit (Benedict Cumberbatch) who becomes fascinated by a\u00a0man claiming to see without his eyes (Ben Kingsley). At 40 minutes, it\u2019s a delectable amuse-bouche that even the Anderson-allergic may enjoy.\u00a0\u2014 L.F.<\/p>\n \n\tThis story appears in the Sept. 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. 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