A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen. Filmmaker Nick Broomfield chronicles their relationship, from the early days in Greece to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician.

Dutifully covering the rise, fall and final triumph of Cohen’s career, Broomfield relegates Ihlen to the background of her own story, before bringing her back for the film’s touching final act. .  Ann Hornaday Washington Post

Celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin is a woman who is as comfortable downing martinis with high society’s elite as she is brazenly staring down warlords and fleeing from gunfire. Driven by an enduring desire to bear witness and give voice to the voiceless, Colvin charges into danger, constantly testing the limits between bravery and bravado.

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he director and screenwriter remind the audience not just of the humanism that drives so many reporters, but also the extreme danger they put themselves in to bring us the truth.  Ann Hornaday Washington Post

Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter, the two embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a place to call home.

A coming-of-age story that unfolds gradually, Lean on Pete takes place in what the writer Michael Harrington called “the invisible land” of the poor, a reality too little seen in American movies. Full review Manohla Dargis, New York Times

Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands criminal activities, take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

In the 1980s, a young mother’s efforts to be a good wife are undermined by her declining mental health.  Sheridan Smith, Mark Addy, Ella Hunt, Sally Phillips,ricky Tomlinson, Sheila Hancock, Jo Brand and written by Jo Brand.

It’s the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who’s working as an intern for Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendour of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Even as he beguiles us with mystery, Guadagnino recreates Elio’s life-changing summer with such intensity that we might as well be experiencing it first-hand. Full review

Peter Debruge
Variety

Journey’s End is a British film adaptation of the play Journey’s End by R. C. Sherriff. Written by Simon Reade and directed by Saul Dibb, it is the fifth film adaptation of the play, following Journey’s End (1930), The Other Side (1931), Aces High (1976), and a 1988 BBC TV film. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

An outstanding cast savours performing a play that has stood the test of time. Avoiding sentimentality, this is a valuable rejoinder to those who would sugar-coat mass slaughter. Full review

Andrew Lowry
Empire

Loving Vincent is an experimental animated biographical drama about the life of painter Vincent van Gogh, and in particular, the circumstances of his death.  It is the first fully painted animated feature film.

Every one of the nearly 65,000 frames in this near-lunatic labor of love was rendered by hand with oil paints, following a style intended to mimic that of the master. Full review

Peter Debruge
Variety