Telluride Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Film Reviews

The 2024 Telluride Film Festival kicked off August 30 and runs by means of September 2 within the Colorado mountains. Deadline is on the bottom to observe all the important thing movies. 

Among the movies showing within the mountains for the primary time wherever are director Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s story of the 1975 first episode of SNL; the movie model of August Wilson’s acclaimed stage play The Piano Lesson, a Washington household affair with producer Denzel, director Malcolm and star John David; Oscar winner Edward Berger’s papal thriller The Conclave; Scott Magehee and David Siegel’s heartwarming The Friend, starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a scene-stealing Great Dane Bing; and MGM, Orion and Plan B’s Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel.

Below is a compilation of our critiques from the fest. Click on the movie’s title to learn our full take.

Better Man

Director: Michael Gracey
Cast: Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton, Damon Herriman, Rachelle Banno, Alison Steadman, Kate Mulvaney, Tom Budge, Anthony Hayes
Deadline’s takeaway: After a when you neglect the Robbie-Williams-as-a-monkey gimmick and settle for it willingly. Michael Gracey, who says he was impressed by Bob Fosse and Terry Gilliam, has put his stamp squarely on the music-biopic style and, darkish because it does get, takes it to new heights.

Conclave

Director: Edward Berger
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Sergio Castellito, Carlos Diehz, Lucian Msamati, Brian F. O’Byrne
Deadline’s takeaway: A wonderfully crafted — in each respect — beautiful dramatic achievement, that is the sort of well-regarded, praiseworthy grownup drama that was a staple for studios however now’s an more and more uncommon fowl.

The End

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James
Deadline’s takeaway: In some methods Oppenheimer’s seemingly bonkers thought of placing the plight of a household on the finish of the world spilling their guts in more and more miserable track makes artistic sense. And but nonetheless there’s hope for humanity on this dire idea of a musical, and that’s what we find yourself hanging on to.

The Friend

Directors: Scott McGehee & David Siegel
Cast: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Carla Gugino, Constance Wu, Noma Dumezweni, Sarah Pidgeon, Chloe Xhauflaire, Ann Dowd, Felix Solis, Tom McCarthy, Owen Teague, Josh Pais, Apollo
Deadline’s takeaway: Scott McGehee and David Siegel have crafted a splendidly human, quintessential New York movie that makes you understand Hollywood so hardly ever does this sort of factor anymore. One line pops up all through the dramedy: “What occurs to the canine?” Answer: His personal morose heartbreak may even break yours.

Nickel Boys

Director: RaMell Ross
Cast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjunue Ellis-Taylor, Daveed Diggs, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger
Deadline’s takeaway: Ross takes a poetic and impressionistic swing in his first narrative characteristic, however watching this overlong (it’s two hours and 20 minutes — and it feels it) creative take, I stored pondering extra Terrence Malick than essentially Colson Whitehead.

The Piano Lesson

Director: Malcolm Washington
Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Skylar Aleece Smith, Ray Fisher, Corey Hawkins, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu
Deadline’s takeaway: Merging Blues custom and African American fable with household points that come to the floor over this era wherein the play takes place, a key theme of ancestral satisfaction and its place in up to date household lives actually comes throughout on this model of Wilson’s traditional.

Piece by Piece

Director: Morgan Neville
Cast: Pharrell Williams, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani, Jay Z, Missy Elliott, Pusha T, Justin Timberlake, Teddy Riley
Deadline’s takeaway: Piece By Piece leaves you with hope and an entire bunch of songs you won’t be able to get out of your head. Is it a documentary? A biopic? An animated movie? A musical? A personality research? You guess — and extra. Williams and Neville have taken it aside and put all of it again collectively to perfection.

Saturday Night

Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Corey Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Emily Fairn, Matt Wood, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman, Kaia Gerber, Tommy Dewey, Willem Dafoe, J.Okay. Simmons, Jon Batiste, Naomi McPherson
Deadline’s takeaway: One false transfer and this complete bold soufflé may have fallen, however Reitman steers this all in fashion creating on the nice movies about present enterprise I’ve ever seen — and I’ve seen a number of them.