Venice Film Festival

‘L’immensità’ review: A solid performance from Penélope Cruz doesn’t save Emanuele Crialese’s broadly drawn family drama [C+] | Venice Film Festival

Filmmakers often use cinema to tell personal stories, sometimes stories straight from their own childhood. Recently we’ve seen Alfonso Cuarón,… Read More

September 6, 2022

‘Don’t Worry Darling’ review: Be ready to witness a spectacular disaster [C-] | Venice Film Festival

Throughout the story of the United States, there has often been called the ‘American Dream.’ Beyond the obvious rags-to-riches story,… Read More

September 5, 2022

‘The Whale’ review: Brendan Fraser’s incredible performance anchors a cathartic, emotional powerhouse [A] | Venice Film Festival

We watch movies because we seek entertainment, but at the same time we watch them because we want to be… Read More

September 4, 2022

‘Argentina, 1985’: A great lead performance saves a flawed historical courtroom drama [B-] | Venice Film Festival

We may try to grasp history with our hands, but it always finds a way out of our control. How… Read More

September 4, 2022

‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ review: Laura Poitras’ profound portrait of artist and activist Nan Goldin is one of year’s best films [A+] | Venice Film Festival

Who is Nan Goldin? For people who are not photography enthusiasts, this name probably doesn’t sound familiar. I had personally… Read More

September 3, 2022

‘Un Couple’ review: Frederick Wiseman’s first ever ‘fictional’ film imbues Tolstoy in his strange, artful ode to a woman [B] | Venice Film Festival

Un Couple has been described as legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s first fictional, feature-length film. In truth it is neither. The… Read More

September 2, 2022

‘White Noise’ review: Noah Baumbach’s 1980s family drama builds up steam and lets off a whimper [B] | Venice Film Festival

Edgier and more expressionistic than anything we’ve seen from a director whose commercial sensibility can sometimes border on cautious, White… Read More

August 31, 2022

Venice Review: “Reflection” is a brutal, technically accomplished, but emotionally cold look at war and its consequences

Ukranian director Valentyn Vasyanovych won the hearts of many at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, when his Atlantis won the… Read More

September 16, 2021

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