#Telluride Awards Analysis: For ‘Poor Things,’ Emma Stone Will Make a Run at a Second Best Actress Oscar

#Telluride Awards Analysis: For ‘Poor Things,’ Emma Stone Will Make a Run at a Second Best Actress Oscar

When the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos last brought a film from the Venice Film Festival to the Telluride Film Festival, the Searchlight title, which counted Tony McNamara as a writer and Emma Stone as the biggest name in its cast, was greeted with rave reviews; went on to double-digits of Oscar nominations, including picture, directing…

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#‘Fingernails’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed Quietly Ignite a Low-Tech Sci-Fi Exploration of Romantic Love

#‘Fingernails’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed Quietly Ignite a Low-Tech Sci-Fi Exploration of Romantic Love

In the present-day-adjacent time period in the unspecified city where Fingernails unfolds, a newish technology has been embraced by a growing number of couples. Promising “no more uncertainty” and “no more divorce,” the simple but physically daunting test enables people to be sure they’ve found a true love connection. All that’s required is the removal…

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#‘Rustin’ Review: Colman Domingo Brings an Underappreciated Civil Rights Hero to Passionate Life in George C. Wolfe’s Rousing and Poignant Feature

#‘Rustin’ Review: Colman Domingo Brings an Underappreciated Civil Rights Hero to Passionate Life in George C. Wolfe’s Rousing and Poignant Feature

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is known to most Americans for Martin Luther King’s galvanizing “I Have a Dream” speech. That oratory milestone appears in Rustin, but from the perspective of the title character. He wasn’t in the spotlight that August day in 1963, but Bayard Rustin was the visionary conceptualizer and…

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#Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Saltburn’ Could Return Emerald Fennell and Barry Keoghan to Contention

#Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Saltburn’ Could Return Emerald Fennell and Barry Keoghan to Contention

Saltburn, the second film written and directed by Emerald Fennell — three years after Promising Young Woman, for which she won the best original screenplay Oscar — had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival’s Palm Theatre on Thursday evening, and certainly left people talking. A pitch-black comedy packed with sex, violence and music, like…

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