First look review
Early reviews from film festivals and advance previews
The End review – Joshua Oppenheimer’s end-of-days musical is ambitious and exhausting
The documentarian makes his hit-and-miss narrative debut with help from Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon as privileged parents in a luxury bunker
Saturday Night review – tedious SNL origins tale is an unfunny misfire
Toronto film festival: Jason Reitman’s 70s-set comedy detailing the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live is a dull and self-indulgent mess
The Piano Lesson review – powerful yet patchy August Wilson drama
Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkey biopic is a bananas gamble that pays off
Vermiglio review – secrets and lies in idyllic Italian village in the shadow of war
Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes takes charge of tense papal election thriller
Without Blood review – Angelina Jolie’s lacklustre war drama is another misfire
Heretic review – Hugh Grant has devilishly dark fun in talky, twisty horror
The Return review – Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite in drab drama
Relay review – Riz Ahmed is a fixer on a mission in a throwback thriller
Nightbitch review – Amy Adams turns into a dog in rough dark comedy
Piece by Piece review – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbuster
The Assessment review – Alicia Vikander is future parents’ worst nightmare
Eden review – Ron Howard’s nasty, starry survival thriller falls over the edge
Elton John: Never Too Late review – thin portrait of a musical genius
The Fire Inside review – blazing boxing drama packs a serious punch
Unstoppable review – Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome lift routine sports drama
The Last Showgirl review – Pamela Anderson’s big comeback is a big disappointment
We Live in Time review – Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh charm in heartfelt weepie
Hard Truths review – a Mike Leigh classic of day-to-day disillusionment and courage
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is exceptional as a woman in the terrifying endgame of depression in this deeply sober and compassionate drama, not without flashes of fun
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