venice review

Venice Review: Ana Lily Amirpour’s ‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ is a vibrantly stylish, yet uneven ride [Grade C+]

Ana Lily Amirpour’s latest film, after a five-year absence due to her venturing into the world of TV, will take… Read More

September 6, 2021

Venice Review: Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg seethe in the Mexican heat of Michel Franco’s ‘Sundown’ [Grade: B]

Michel Franco returns to the Lido just one year after his New Order won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize,… Read More

September 5, 2021

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

Three years after premiering her BAFTA-nominated debut feature, Only You, British filmmaker Harry Wootliff returns to the festival circuit with… Read More

September 4, 2021

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

Isabelle Huppert battles to keep her place in the mayoral office in Thomas Kruithof's Les Promesses, also known by its… Read More

September 3, 2021

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

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

September 3, 2021

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

The two most important lines in Dune come at the very beginning and the very end. First, when Duke Leto… Read More

September 3, 2021

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

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

September 3, 2021

Venice review: The road to redemption is a long and rocky one in Paul Schrader’s ‘The Card Counter’ [Grade: A]

“If not for the money, why play?” – “It passes the time,” says professional gambler William Tell (Oscar Isaac) when… Read More

September 2, 2021

Venice Review: Vanessa Kirby gives a career-best performance in grief-laden ‘Pieces of a Woman’

The entire heart-rending story of Kornél Mundruczó’s newest feature, Pieces of a Woman, can be deciphered in Martha (Vanessa Kirby)’s… Read More

September 9, 2020

Venice Review: Regina King’s glorious ‘One Night in Miami’ is a vital and indispensable directorial debut

Leslie Odom, Jr., Eli Goree, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Aldis Hodge in Regina King's ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI (courtesy of Amazon… Read More

September 7, 2020

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