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'Good Joe Bell': Film Review | TIFF 2020
The sprawling plains of Idaho and Utah, their tufted prairies dappled by cloud-filtered light and edged by craggy mountains, provide a spiritual setting for bruising personal reflection in Good Joe Bell. Led by a performance that feels grounded in genuine pain and atonement from Mark Wahlberg as a real-life father on a personal crusade against the vicious intolerance that has made his gay son's life hell, the drama is directed with great sensitivity by Reinaldo Marcus Green, working from an empathetic screenplay by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry, the Oscar-winning team behind Brokeback Mountain.