OCTOBER 11, 2021

Critics Rank the Best Films and Performances of the Fall Festivals 137 critics voted in our survey of the highlights from Venice, Telluride, TIFF, and NYFF.  By Eric Kohn and Christian Blauvelt

'Succession' Season 3 Review: TV's Best Show Enters Full-On Beast Mode Creator Jesse Armstrong and his elite team put the screws on the Roy family in an unrelentingly tense season that's still unbelievably fun.  By Ben Travers	'Lamb': How the Nordic Folk Horror Film Pulled Off Its Outlandish Special Effects Twist Director Valdimar Jóhannsson and visual effects supervisor Fredrik Nord unpack the A24 movie's creepy visual invention.  By Ryan Lattanzio

Afghanistan's Film Archives Were Saved from the Taliban Once Before. What Now? Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927.  By Chris Lindahl	'No Time to Die' Adds Heft to Strong October After 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' The latest Bond came in at the low end of unrealistic expectations, but its gross is still another sign of improvement.  By Tom Brueggemann

	'Scenes From a Marriage' Director on Big Changes, Fourth-Wall Breaks, and the Series' Future Writer-director Hagai Levi spoke to IndieWire about the 2021 version's ending, purpose, and how it argues "the opposite" of Bergman's origin … By Ben Travers
	Bond 26: Where the 007 Franchise Should Go After Shocking 'No Time to Die' End Twenty-five films in, the beloved spy franchise is still ripe for reinvention. But what could, and maybe even should, come next?  By Kate Erbland
	'The Tender Bar' Review: George Clooney Directs Ben Affleck as a Kind Uncle in a Limp Memoir Adaptation George Clooney directs Ben Affleck as a kind-hearted uncle in an adaptation of J.R. Moehringer's memoir that's as watchable as it is missabl … By Nicholas Barber
	'Squid Game' Director on the Show's Massive Global Success, Its Themes, and a Potential Sequel Hwang Dong-hyuk's "Squid Game" was a passion project 10 years in the making, but no one could have anticipated this level of success.  By Tyler Hersko
	Recommendation Machine: 'The Hour' First Gave Ben Whishaw the Spy Story Spotlight Just before he started his run as Q, the versatile actor co-starred in this show about magazine staffers whose late-'50s world gets turned u … By Steve Greene