FESTIVAL REVIEW ROUND-UP: THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, MISS VIOLENCE, THE ZERO THEOREM

Ralph Fiennes' second feature, after 2011's Coriolanus, is The Invisible Woman, which screened at Telluride yesterday. A moderate opinion on the film from The Playlist's Chris Willman in his B- review. Gregory Ellwood has plenty of positive remarks to make about it in HitFix, but is largely unimpressed, and scores the film a C+. But Todd McCarthy is all over it in The Hollywood Reporter, with an all-out rave.

Another sophomore work in Miss Violence, from Greek director Alexandros Avranas, at Venice. Boyd van Hoeij is mostly pleased with the 'precision-tooled... chilling' film in The Hollywood Reporter. And, in Variety, Guy Lodge is one among many to note Avranas' tonal similarities to his national contemporaries Giorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari, in another positive report.

Finally, Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem may star Oscar winners such as Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon and Tilda Swinton, but it's by far his lowest-budgeted film in many years. The reviews at Venice haven't been terribly kind: Oliver Lyttleton has quite a few compliments, although notes that it's 'not an unreserved return to form', and isn't sold on the film's sexual politics. But Variety's Leslie Felperin is nowhere near as good to The Zero Theorem.