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Telluride reviews: 'All of Us Strangers' soars, but 'Saltburn' barely leaves a mark

Jamie Bell, left, and Claire Foy in a scene from“ All of Us Strangers.”.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — A film festival is a small world, and few worlds feel smaller, or more disarmingly intimate, than the one that comes together here in Telluride every fall. For a few days stretching into Labor Day weekend, filmmakers, decision-makers, cinephiles and more than a few entertainment journalists descend on — or rather, ascend to — this small town in the Colorado Rockies, in search of cooler climes and invigorating mountain scenery. And also, of course, in search of movies — new and old, anticipated and unheard of, some destined to fly under the radar and others bound to trigger an avalanche of Oscar hype.

Not that Telluride would admit to perpetuating anything so coarse as hype. The festival, now celebrating its 50th anniversary, has spent years quietly positioning itself as a purer, lower-key corrective to its splashier fall rivals like Venice, which kicked off two days

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