Report From Telluride
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‘The Front Runner’ Film Review: Politics, Sex and Media Collide in Hugh Jackman Drama
Telluride Film Festival 2018: Jason Reitman’s second film of 2018 offers a wild ride through Gary Hart’s tumultuous 1988 presidential campaign
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‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’ Film Review: Morgan Neville’s Orson Welles Doc Is Cineaste Catnip
Made to coincide with the completed “The Other Side of the Wind,” this making-of tale shows Welles in all his maverick, maddening glory
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‘Hostiles’ Film Review: Christian Bale Drives a Great American Western
Scott Cooper’s 19th-century drama offers an echo of hope amid the darkness
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‘Battle of the Sexes’ Review: In a Hard Year for Women, Emma Stone Provides Reason to Cheer
Telluride Film Festival: Stone has never been better than she is in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ movie about Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
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‘Eating Animals’ Review: Natalie Portman Narrates Essential Documentary on Meat Consumption
Telluride Film Festival: Documentary paints a bleak picture of the damage of factory farming, but stops short of advocating unrealistic demands
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‘Lady Bird’ Review: Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan Create Fearless Coming-of-Age Story
Telluride Film Festival: The first-time director and her star give us one of the most intriguing, infuriating and magnetic characters in recent memory
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‘Maudie’ Review: Sally Hawkins Saves an Otherwise Missed Opportunity
Rather than tell the true story of its fascinating heroine — an arthritic Canadian artist — the film settles for predictable, underwritten romance
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‘Moonlight’ Review: Barry Jenkins Tracks a Tragic Childhood in Powerful Film
The writer-director of “Medicine for Melancholy” skillfully and hauntingly examines the pain of being raised by a drug addict in a homophobic community
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‘Una’ Telluride Review: Rooney Mara Molestation Drama Undercuts Its Own Impact
In this adaptation of the stage play “Blackbird,” director Benedict Andrews keeps the audience at a distance, and drives a chemistry-killing wedge between Mara and Ben Mendelsohn
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‘The Ivory Game’ Telluride Review: Urgent Documentary About Elephant Killing Is a Roar for Action
An extinction crisis for one of earth’s mightiest creatures, fed by an illegal trade in ivory, is made vividly clear in an advocacy documentary that moves like an espionage thriller
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‘Sully’ Telluride Review: Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks Successfully Co-Pilot True-Life Heroism Drama
The behind-the-scenes tale of “The Miracle on the Hudson” underscores a stirring portrait of its celebrated and scrutinized pilot
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‘Steve Jobs’ Telluride Review: Michael Fassbender Is Stunning in Breathtaking, Relentless Biopic
Film from director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is a “talk opera” that doesn’t sugar-coat the Apple founder’s life
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‘Suffragette’ Telluride Review: Carey Mulligan Is the Reason to See This Masterwork
Produced, written, directed by and starring women, this isn’t a film the Oscars can pass by
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‘He Named Me Malala’ Telluride Review: Film About Teen Pakistani Activist Draws Tears and Applause
Davis Guggenheim’s documentary is a surprise choice for the festival-opening “secret screening”
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Reese Witherspoon’s Odd F-Bombs, Michael Keaton Mania, ‘Weird Tales’ Show-Stealing: 7 Telluride Takeaways
An Argentine comedy trumps “Birdman” and “The Imitation Game” while the confab says it could care less about Best Picture candidates
