Fall Film Festival Recap: The Best & Worst of TIFF, Telluride and Venice
The fall film season kicks off each year with a trio of prestigious festivals: the just-completed Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Venice Film Festival (now in its 74th year), and the smaller but no less interesting Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. It is at these festivals where many of the year's Oscar contenders typically make their debuts. (Last year, five best picture nominees—including eventual winner Moonlight—had their world premieres at one of these festivals.) And this year's crop includes promising upcoming releases from Guillermo del Toro, Greta Gerwig, Aaron Sorkin, Joe Wright, and Armando Iannucci ... as well as more divisive films from the likes of Alexander Payne, George Clooney, and Louis CK.
Below, learn more about the critical response to these and other notable films (and TV shows) debuting at the three festivals in 2017.
John Woo (Red Cliff) returns to his roots with this Asian cop action flick, a remake of a 1976 film based on a Jukô Nishimura novel. The story of an innocent man determined to clear his name has been turned into “the most John Woo movie possible ... a deliriously entertaining thrill ride from start to end, and sure to go down as one of the most enjoyable films of 2017,” writes C.J. Prince of The Film Stage. The Verge’s Tasha Robinson deftly suggests, “Manhunt feels like an extended goof on Woo’s career, and on the audience — it’s as though he’s laughing at action fans for what they traditionally find impressive. The fact that he’s in on the joke, and that some of the jokes are at his own expense, makes the film go down smoothly enough.”
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