All articles by Fionnuala Halligan
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Reviews‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’: Review
A welcome return for Wallace, Gromit and that dastardly penguin in another ‘instant classic’ from Aardman Animation
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CommentComment: The Academy’s international feature category is struggling to keep up with the times
“The international feature film category is fast becoming a juvenile delinquent lobbing grenades of credibility back at the mothership”
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Reviews‘Four Mothers’: London Review
Warm-hearted Irish mother-son drama plays in London Competition
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Reviews‘The Summer Book’: London Review
Glenn Close and the Finnish landscape take centre stage in this adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel
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Reviews‘Blitz’: London Review
Steve McQueen’s weighty wartime drama starring Saoirse Ronan opens the London Film Festival
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Reviews‘Nickel Boys’: Review
RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel of southern racism and abuse in a boys penitentiary
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Reviews‘On Falling’: San Sebastian Review
A Portugese factory worker in Scotland struggles to make a connection in this effective debut
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Reviews‘Emmanuelle’: San Sebastian Review
Audrey Diwan presents a ‘paralysingly pointless’ update of the 70s soft-porn figure
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FeaturesScreen critics’ stand-out titles from Venice 2024
We have selected 11 stand-out titles from the Lido, plus five that are bubbling under.
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Reviews‘Blue Road’: Toronto Review
Sinead O’Shea’s spirited documentary is a fitting tribute to Irish author Edna O’Brien
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CommentComment: Venice 2024 - The Films Are All Right
Panic over a paucity of films due to the Hollywood strikes was papered-over by artistic director Alberto Barbera’s suavely-executed line-up
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Reviews‘Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2’: Venice Review
The wagons just keep rolling in the second chapter of Kevin Costner’s mythical Western epic
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Reviews‘Aicha’: Venice Review
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
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Reviews‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review
Startling documentary about Jerry Lewis’s failed attempt to direct a Holocaust film in Sweden in 1971
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Reviews‘Queer’: Venice Review
Daniel Craig cruises 1950s Mexico in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the William S Burroughs novella
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Reviews‘One To One: John And Yoko’: Venice Review
Kevin Macdonald clips together a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they take a dive into 1970s New York activism
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Reviews‘Maria’: Venice Review
Angelina Jolie hits the notes as opera legend Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s latest biopic
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Reviews’Riefenstahl’: Venice Review
Clear-eyed portrait of Third Reich German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and her post-War attempts to rehabilitate her image
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CommentComment: five fall festival titles that will become awards contenders - and why
Identifying the awards-season contenders from the bewildering array of films at this time of year means learning the rules of the game.
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Reviews‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process