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Sep162024
TIFF: Ralph Fiennes carries the engaging and tense "Conclave
Monday, September 16, 2024 at 9:00PM by Matt St Clair
Ralph Fiennes in "Conclave" © Focus Features
After taking audiences through the treacherous WWI battlefields in the Oscar-winning epic All Quiet on the Western Front, director Edward Berger crafts a different exercise in tension in the form of a Pope election with Conclave, a high-stakes thriller based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris that is full of high-stakes political intrigue and stellar performances...