Shakespeare, vampires and MMA: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?
As the fall festivals come to a close, the awards season is slowly taking shape but without a substantial amount of sure things, questions remain
American independent cinema owes much to Sundance king Robert Redford
With his Sundance film festival and institute, Robert Redford used his considerable power to bring generations of talented film-makers to a bigger audience
Robert Redford: the incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever
Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flame
Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-winning director
Hamnet wins top award at the Toronto film festival
Chloé Zhao’s Shakespeare drama has picked up the people’s choice award, which has become predictor of Oscar success
Eternity review – it’s a charming afterlife in high-concept love triangle comedy
Elizabeth Olsen must choose who she spends eternity with in an often ingenious throwback that can’t quite stick the landing
The Fence review – Claire Denis stumbles with a grim and grating misfire
The French director has made of one her least effective movies with this dull and clunkily adapted version of 1979 play with a miscast Matt Dillon at its centre
James McAvoy reportedly assaulted in Toronto bar
Actor promoting his directorial debut California Schemin’ at the city’s film festival is reported to have been punched by another drinker
Couture review – Angelina Jolie is the wrong fit for inert fashion drama
The Oscar winner is adrift in Alice Winocour’s uninvolving film, premiering in Toronto, about three thinly written women involved in Paris fashion week show
Nuns vs the Vatican: documentary alleges sexual abuse and misconduct in the Catholic church
A new film, premiering at the Toronto film festival, follows women who claim to have been abused by a former Jesuit priest
The Christophers review – Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel spar in smart Soderbergh original
The actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama about art, commerce and the mess in-between
Dust to Dreams review – a baffling short film from director Idris Elba
The actor recruits Seal for a Lagos-set 19-minute misfire that inelegantly stuffs in far too much
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe’s Göring v Rami Malek’s psychiatrist in swish yet glib courtroom showdown
Crowe and Malek are hugely watchable but this ultimately fails to deliver an authentic version of events
Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal excel in stately Shakespeare drama with overwhelming finale
The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao’s poignant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker ending
Hedda review – Ibsen gets a Saltburn makeover in Amazon’s ill-advised romp
Nia DaCosta ups the nastiness of Hedda Gabler in a stylish but over-egged adaptation with lead Tessa Thompson losing the film to a standout Nina Hoss