The film has earned rave
reviews at film festivals and screenings in advance of its October 4th release.
Not exact matches
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Also excluded are
films that first debuted
at other major
festivals earlier this year; you can find
reviews for those
films in our Cannes Recap and our Sundance Recap.
From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies debuted
at this year's Sundance
film festival to mostly positive
reviews.
Catherine Shoard
reviews Behind the Candelabra by Steven Soderbergh
at the 2013 Cannes
film festival
Another Irish
film which made an impact
at Cannes is The Lobster, which garnered rave
reviews following its
festival premiere on Saturday.
The seventh
film from the beloved Japanese to screen
at Cannes, Kore - eda's family drama was picked up by Magnolia Pictures after it premiered to strong
reviews at the
festival.
Fox Searchlight also premiered a third
film to positive
reviews at the
festivals, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris» «Battle of the Sexes.»
We
reviewed some of the most buzzed
films at this year's
festival, including «Dope», «Ruben Guthrie», «Gayby Baby» and «Holding The Man».
Her follow - up
film, Eden, won the Audience Award
at SXSW 2012 and was showered with rave
reviews on the
festival circuit and its brief theatrical run.
It received a surprise premiere
at the Overlook
film festival earlier this month and was greeted with a set of rapturous
reviews which, like its superbly assembled trailers, suggest one of the scariest
films of the summer.
I am so happy to hear the
film is getting a wide release after playing
at numerous
film festivals and receiving extremely positive
reviews.
And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of
film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and
reviewed in 2013
at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 2014.
I write
reviews for FF2 Media and represent the team
at local
film festivals.
Other
films just missing the cut: Oliver really loved «Miss Violence»
at the Venice
film festival and it made his five best
films list (
review here).
As you might remember from my
review of seeing Cub
at Fantastic Fest, it was one of the most satisfying
film experience I had the whole
festival.
Some of these launched
at prestige fall
film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad
reviews or audience reaction, or both.
Director Richard Kelly's follow - up on the enigmatic cult hit Donnie Darko has run into a critical storm: an unfinished version (according to Kelly) was shown
at the Cannes
film festival where it was boo - ed and got rotten
reviews.
A black comedy about a man who dreams of being a reality tv contestant, the French / Italian co-production Reality (directed by Matteo Garrone) has attracted rave
reviews at a lot of 2012's
film festivals, including a Grand Prix win
at Cannes, though it's yet to see a wide release in English - speaking territories.
5 - time Oscar nominee Adams received very good
reviews for Arrival
at both the Venice and Telluride
film festivals but some pundits believe the
film, and Adams, aren't really «Oscar» players.
The
film won its first rave
review when it debuted
at US
festival South By Southwest, in March 2018.
(half way between Rian Johnson's Brick and Veronica Mars) It quickly emerged as one of the underdogs on the schedule to become one of the most buzzed about
films at the
festival (read some of the
review quotes here).
It was the last
film to screen
at the
festival and played to mixed
reviews.
Her presence
at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her
film reviews in the Village Voice, Elle, Out, and the Advocate, and her commentaries on the public radio program «The World» have secured her a place as a central figure in the remarkable history of what she deems «cinefeminism.»
This premiered
at the Sundance Film
Festival under the title Search, and was one of my favorite
films of the
festival - I wrote a glowing
review of it, which is quoted in this trailer.
«A Quiet Place» had an unofficial premiere
at SXSW
festival this weekend where 18 critics were able to
review the
film, leaving it with an amazing 100 % Fresh Tomatometer score ahead of its UK release on May 4.
The
film earned strong
reviews at the
festival, with «The Guardian's» Henry Barnes writing that Slattery's ``... depiction of God's Pocket — a fictional South Philly neighbourhood crawling with drunks, hucksters and vagabonds — near weeps with the blue collar romanticism of David O Russell's The Fighter.
Aside from her national and international movie
reviews for various publications, she's worked as a journalist
at Cannes, Sundance and Tribeca
film festivals.
Clearly this year's crop of
films is brimming with promise, so it's a good thing we've until January 26th to take them all in — or
at least take them in via
reviews, interviews and
festival features.
Blockers premiered to rave
reviews at SXSW last month, and while it's rare that a comedy lives up to its
festival hype, I had an absolute blast with the
film, which met my high expectations.
For past
festivals Shteyrenberg has even shown he has a knack for pushing this writer to see the right movies to introduce
at the
festival, Ida was one («Ida» comes to South Florida in 35 mm; My
review appears in «Reverse Shot»), and then there was the Israeli
film Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem shows how to make a powerful, resonant drama using one setting — a
film review).
His «Boogie Nights,» which follows a cast of colorful characters through six eventful years in the adult
film industry, is the year's best -
reviewed film - a hit
at the Toronto and New York
film festivals - and is now opening around the country.
I tend to watch a lot of
films twice: Once
at their
film festival premiere, and again when they hit theaters for an official
review.
Over the past two weeks, Hammer to Nail published five
reviews I wrote about
films at the recent AFI DOCS
festival, plus a
review of Misconception, which was released in select theaters on June 24, and a
review of the recent Criterion Collection release of Clouds of Sils Maria on Blu - ray.
at the Toronto
film festival: Anomalisa, Mr Right and Couple in a Hole - audio
reviews
-- Every day, you have the opportunity to write a critique about a
film from the
festival program or short
reviews of an event
at the Berlinale Talents programme, and will discuss and
review it with your fellow participants and
film critics.
James, umm the fact that like Guy said he is as good as you'd expect him to be, great
reviews and remarks about a performance that earned him the best actor prize
at the Canne
film festival in May, and a previous oscar winner with a tremendous amount of talent.
When it debuted
at various
festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, «Skeleton» received mostly positive
reviews, with Variety critic Geoff Berkshire writing that «the biggest surprise for audiences expecting plenty of laughs will be just how effectively both thesps handle the weightier dramatic material in the screenplay... «The Skeleton Twins» captures the way siblings develop their own unique comedic shorthands in a way few
films ever have.»
Whenever he's not doing schoolwork, Tyler is probably
at the movies,
reviewing one he just saw, or cooking up a new screenplay that he'll direct with friends for short
film festivals.
A small, rapturously
reviewed film that won best feature
at the Independent Spirit Awards and has cleaned up on the
festival circuit, this second feature from director Chloe Zhao explores the world of a South Dakota cowboy (played by Brady Jandreau) who has to find a new way of life after suffering a head injury.
The
film debuted to rave
reviews at the Venice, Toronto and Telluride
film festivals and was released nationwide in April 2013.
The
film won strong
reviews when it premiered
at Toronto in the Special Presentations section of the
festival.
Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness screened as a Special Screening during the Cannes
Film Festival, giving her the opportunity to promote this first
film at the
festival outside the competition unlike her actor - turned - director fellow Ryan Gosling, whose debut feature Lost River screened in last year's Un Certain Regard and received mixed and harsh
reviews...
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The
film opened
at the SXSW
film festival last spring to great
reviews, but if you missed it there, it's now available on DVD, as noted
at Counsel to Counsel.
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films and Christian movies.
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film festival coverage, all aspects faith - based
films and Christian movies.