The Venice Film Festival doesn't have a lot of UK films for the 2024 lineup, and what it does have looks to be also turning up in Toronto as the award season film festivals heat up.
Kneecap, the fictionalized retelling of the titular band's rise, works as well as it does because the three unprofessional actors are so commanding; what they lack in acting finesse, they make up for with sparking energy, ferocity, and comic timing.
The drab, murky aesthetic and subdued mood of Starve Acre is a too-easy shortcut around an oppressive atmosphere without having anthing novel to say in a saturated genre.
