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.
According to critics, director George Clooney’s attempt to combine an old script by Joel and Ethan Coen with a project he was writing with Grant Heslov about the actual events that occurred when a black family moved into Levittown, Pennsylvania in 1957 results in an uneven film. Matt Damon stars as Gardner Lodge, a husband and father who gets mixed up in some shady business just as neighborhood’s first black family moves in next door.
Ben Croll of Indiewire warns that the “seams certainly show” between the two stories, but thinks it’s “not bad filmmaking, just blunt.” However, Variety’s Owen Gleiberman claims it’s “a lightly sneaky and entertaining movie.” The film opens on October 27.
Drama/Comedy | USA
Directed by George Clooney
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