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.
This dramatization of the famous 1973 tennis match between top-ranked Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) is a “broad and sporadically entertaining crowd-pleaser,” according to Indiewire's David Ehrlich. However, THR’s Todd McCarthy finds it “massively entertaining” and believes “co-directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton top their 2006 smash Little Miss Sunshine with a finely tuned piece that deftly shoots the drama through with grand human comedy.” The film opens in theaters on Friday.
Comedy | USA
Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
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