First reviews of “Daggers in the Back: The Mystery of the Glass Onion” and “The Fabelmans” from Toronto

With Venice over, now it’s the turn of the Toronto International Film Festival and ‘Daggers in the Back: The Mystery of the Glass Onion’ and ‘The Fabelmans’ have already been seen there. In the case of the new Rian Johnson, the film was mainly praised for being able to maintain the level of intrigue, humor and unexpected twists of its predecessor, Plus, Collider’s Ross Bonaime ensures that he even surpasses it: “It’s bigger, crazier and more fun than the original, believe it or not, even more twisted and ambitious. Rian Johnson surpasses himself on all levels.”

#Glass Onion it’s a blast. Bigger, crazier, and funnier than the original, and believe it or not, even more torturous and ambitious than the original. Rian Johnson just got up on every level. pic.twitter.com/BrmB5zkVrk

? Ross Bonaime @ # TIFF22 (@bonaime) September 11, 2022

Jonathan Fuji of The Film Drunk has praised to the cast featuring Janelle Monáe e David Cuevas of Filmhounds Magazine didn’t hold back and called the movie “a classic of the modern mystery”. Amanda Guraggi of Candid cinema she has not forgotten her protagonist, Daniel Craig, who according to her “shine again” with a performance “funnier than the last” . In addition to social media impressions, Variety and Deadline have posted more extensive reviews. Journalist Owen Gleiberman summarizes it as “a thriller wrapped in a deception hidden in an enigma”, although for him the resolution of the murder is less gratifying than in ‘Daggers in the back’. For Damon Wise, this sequel has “one of the most brilliant screenplays of the year, not only in terms of satirical and satirical dialogues and satirical pop culture jokes, but also in the meticulous meticulous meticulousness of a traditional thriller that makes the mind spin from start to finish. “

“Daggers in the back 2” returns with Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc and has been joined by Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, Ethan Hawke and Dave Bautista as suspected (or perhaps victims) of a new crime. The film will arrive on Netflix on December 23, although it will briefly hit commercial theaters first.

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We see that this year the level in Toronto is high, because the new Steven Spielberg has received no less positive reviews. ‘The Fabelmans’ is literally the film of his life, or at least an interpretation of what his childhood was like and how he fell in love with cinema, something similar to what Kenneth Branagh did in “Belfast” or Paolo Sorrentino in “It was the hand of God”. In the case in point, Paul Dano, Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen play fictionalized versions of the director’s family, who at the presentation claimed that the film was “a way to bring back my father and my mother”, in a room where his three sisters were sitting.

Shortly after the screening ended, the first professional reviews of the film began to emerge, already mentioning the Oscar. Deadline’s Pete Hammond says in his article that the casting couldn’t be better and calls Williams “Amazing” Y “heartbreaking cool” and ensures that despite having 75 years and an immense career, Spielberg has the strength of a director just starting out. Variety’s Peter Debruge is just as enthusiastic about the film, starting with stating it “No director has done more to deconstruct the myth of Steven Spielberg’s suburban American family.” Furthermore, it seems to him that ‘The Fabelmans’ contains the keys to his filmography as a window on “mental space of the most loved living director in the world, a strangely sanitized area where even trauma”. Tim Grierson of Screendaily thinks it is “Oscar winner” and that Spielberg “he sees his childhood from a healthy distance that allows him to see those past years in all their poignant complexity”. It’s true that SlashFilm’s Chris Evangelista doesn’t think it’s the director’s masterpiece, but it is “A funny, sweet, pleasantly warm film. Yet there is a certain melancholy that lurks beneath the joy of all “.

The official synopsis of the film reads like this: “Growing up in post-World War II Arizona, a young man named Sammy Fabelman uncovers a devastating family secret. and explore how the power of movies can help you see the truth. “ “The Flabermans” will be released in US theaters on November 23 this year, but no release date has been announced in Spain.