The 34th Raindance Film Fest kicked off Wednesday night with
April X, an enjoyably stylised near-future thriller starring Luly Krug and Connor Storrie. Indie films from around the world are on the programme over the next 10 days. Meanwhile, the biggest film in cinemas is
Toy Story 5, the latest thoroughly entertaining sequel in the franchise that could easily have just ended years ago. Thankfully, the Pixar team doesn't rest on its laurels.
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BEST OUT THIS WEEK:
Cactus Pears • Toy Story 5
Rose of Nevada • Nino
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
PERHAPS AVOID:
A Murder Between Friends
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I also saw
Voicemails for Isabelle, a romcom that references classic romcoms shamelessly and still wins us over thanks to charming leads Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson.
Virginia Woolf's Night and Day is a smart British period comedy-drama with Haley Bennett as a fiercely independent woman in 1910 London, Joan Collins leads the cast of the nutty whodunit
A Murder Between Friends, which is watchable even if it's very corny. The British drama
Ish is a staggeringly realistic slice of life that grapples meaningfully with big issues. And the American drama
Blue Film is a fascinating and finely contained exploration of attraction and sexuality.
Coming up this next week, I'll be watching Milly Alcock in
Supergirl and the Icelandic vampire movie
Thirst. At Raindance Film Festival, I plan to see
Think of England, Pescador, My Daughter's Hair and more, and then at Annecy Festival in France there's
Minions & Monsters to start with.
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