The reviews for Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” are trickling in. Poitras’ doc is the only film doing all four of the major fall festivals this year. There’s a lot of hype over this movie, and it seems justified.
Raves from Screen International, THR, Deadline, Variety, Indie Wire and The Playlist. All six reviews will likely throttle Poitras’ film in the 90s on Metacritic. There’s already Golden Lion talk when it comes to this doc. In fact, it seems as though the reviews on Letterboxd are just as rapturous.
A few weeks ago, The New York Film Festival chose “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” as its festival centerpiece, which is quite the praise given that NYFF has the luxury of choosing almost any festival film that they want for their Main Slate. This year, the only Venice titles going to New York are “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Saint Omer,” “TAR,” “The Eternal Daughter,” ““No Bears,” “Bones and All,” “Stonewalling,” “White Noise, and “Un Couple,”
I’ve been hearing mixed things about Frederick Wiseman’s “Un Couple,” but it was a given that it would play NYFF as Wiseman has been a mainstay of that festival for close to 6 decades. There was no way that they would reject him, and, coincidentally, a lot of the best reviews for “Un Couple” are coming from NYC-based critics.