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REVIEW: Conclave [London Film Festival 2024]

What happens when a group of men, sworn to humility, are given the power to elect the Vicar of Christ? Can personal fallibility be kept in check when the stakes are divine?

Conclave, directed by Edward Berger and based on Robert Harris’ novel, explores these questions as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) reluctantly presides over the election of a new Pope after the sudden death of the current pontiff.…

Joy is a well-acted festive drag

 

It’s that time of the year again. Time for clamorous hangovers, spurious resolutions, and David O. Russell’s semi-annual dysfunctional family drama.

2014 gave us family and criminality (American Hustle), 2012 gave us family and mental illness (Silver Linings Playbook), and in 2010 he paired up family and boxing (The Fighter).…