This is a real bumper pack of reviews, so let's not dither.
Ida comes from Pawel Pawlikowski, the director of My Summer of Love, the film that made Emily Blunt a star. Peter Debruge in Variety remarks that it's not likely Ida breaks out to that extent, though. But Meredith Brody adores the film in her Thompson on Hollywood blog, which contains references to many other films showing at Telluride.
I posted a link to a clip of Steven Knight's Locke the other day. In CineVue, John Bleasdale's review isn't actually as positive as his five-star rating! And two critics note the strength of star Tom Hardy's performance: Leslie Felperin at Variety and Robbie Collin at The Telegraph. The film screened at the Venice Film Festival.
Tim's Vermeer, off of Teller, off of Penn and Teller, will show at Toronto on Thursday, but it's already shown at scene-stealer Telluride. And it's stolen the show itself, drawing raves from HitFix's Kris Tapley, Variety's Peter Debruge and FirstShowing.net's Alex Billington. One for the Exit Through the Gift Shop crowd? Which is everyone, isn't it?
It's been over a decade since Lukas Moodysson made a film like We Are the Best!, according to critics, not just in tone but in quality. 'An utterly delightful evocation of early teenage life' says Guy Lodge in Variety, and David Rooney is equally supportive of Moodysson's return to form in The Hollywood Reporter.
A couple of documentaries now: Salinger made it into Telluride unharmed in the end, for a last-minute-scheduled screening that has been received by mixed response. On one hand, there's IndieWire's Eric Kohn, who considers it 'enthralling'. On the other hand, Anne Thompson isn't quite as sold. Expect TWC to push this pretty hard for Oscar after its US release this weekend. Trailer after the cut.
On to Alex Gibney's The Arsmtrong Lie, which is given a good write-up in Variety by Justin Chang. But Boyd van Hoeij is somewhat on the fence in The Hollywood Reporter.
A couple more reports from The Hollywood Reporter: Jonathan Holland has mixed feelings about Santiago Palavecino's Some Girls, and Boyd van Hoeij again does not about Agnes B's My Name Is Hmmm..., which he rather strongly dislikes.
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