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 remake of The Intouchables stars Bryan Cranston as a rich quadriplegic and Kevin Hart as his inexperienced caregiver. Directed by Neil Burger (Limitless, Divergent), “this extremely by-the-numbers, manipulative and formulaic film is as funny as its framework allows it to be,” writes Jordan Hoffman of The Guardian. Damning the film with the faintest of praise, Indiewire’s Eric Kohn claims the film “smooths out the troubling racial elements of the original and winds up as an endearing one-note trifle.”
Drama/Comedy | USA
Directed by Neil Burger
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