AwardsWatch

Venice Review: ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ is a worthy retread with staggering performances from Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain [Grade: B+]

Adam Solomons September 4, 2021

It’s not common for me to advise readers to watch a 294-minute limited series in one go. But Scenes from a Marriage, HBO’s new Ingmar... Read More

Telluride Dispatch: ‘Cyrano,’ ‘Belfast’ and ‘King Richard’ make their case in the Oscar race

Erik Anderson September 4, 2021

The Telluride Film Festival was in full swing yesterday with two major world premieres, Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which followed... Read More

Venice review: ‘True Things’ cements Harry Wootliff as the master of new British drama [Grade: A-]

Savina Petkova September 4, 2021

Three years after premiering her BAFTA-nominated debut feature, Only You, British filmmaker Harry Wootliff returns to the festival circuit with True Things, a mature and... Read More

5 Takeaways from the Global Press Event for ‘Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’

Dewey Singleton September 4, 2021

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a vibrant and epic cinematic event the likes of which we haven’t seen since the original Iron... Read More

Venice review: Isabelle Huppert rivets in this razor-sharp political drama, ‘Promises (Les promesses)’ [Grade B+]

Ben Rolph September 3, 2021

Isabelle Huppert battles to keep her place in the mayoral office in Thomas Kruithof’s Les Promesses, also known by its English title Promises. It’s a... Read More

Venice Review: With ‘The Lost Daughter,’ Maggie Gyllenhaal exposes mother-daughter relations in their vile, discomforting essence [Grade: B]

Savina Petkova September 3, 2021

Leda, a middle-aged comp-lit professor, arrives at a lavish Greek island accompanied solely by her books. Played by an overwrought Olivia Colman, she frets and... Read More

Venice review: Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ is a gripping and visually arresting opener to an exciting universe [Grade: A]

Adam Solomons September 3, 2021

The two most important lines in Dune come at the very beginning and the very end. First, when Duke Leto (Oscar Isaac) tells princeling son... Read More

Venice review: Kristen Stewart delivers a career-best performance in a fitting and fantastic look at an accidental revolutionary in ‘Spencer’ [Grade: A]

Adam Solomons September 3, 2021

A spiky icon and a gentle iconoclast, Diana Spencer occupies a place in the public consciousness of Britain and the rest of the world which... Read More

‘Shang-Chi’ is a step forward for Asian representation in studio films; here’s why it’s important right now

Ben Rolph September 3, 2021

Inauthenticity has always been a problem in big-budget films produced in Hollywood’s studio system. It’s a well-known fact that most Hollywood films are made by... Read More

Venice Review: ‘The Hand of God’ is Paolo Sorrentino’s sublime masterpiece [Grade: A]

Roberto Ruggio September 2, 2021

“Thank you to my sources of inspiration: Federico Fellini, Talking Heads, Martin Scorsese and Diego Armando Maradona.” When Paolo Sorrentino went on stage to accept... Read More

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