All Reviews articles
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Reviews‘Hombre Al Agua’ review: Gael Garcia Bernal’s class satire proves disjointed and underpowered
Garcia Bernal directs, co-writes and stars in this Venice Spotlight premiere
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Reviews‘Woman Unknown’ review: May el-Toukhy’s Venice competition title is formal yet ferocious post-war Danish drama
Mathilde Arcel puts in a terrific lead performance in the director’s follow-up to Long Story Short and Queen Of Hearts
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Reviews‘The Echo Chamber’ review: Andrea Pallaoro turns Bernardo Bertolucci’s final script into precise, somewhat odd study of love and dependency
Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon star in London-set Venice competition title
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Reviews‘Holy Wood Dust’ review: Victor Kossakovsky’s study of trees lacks the revelatory magic of his best works
The Russian documentarist’s follow-up to Trillion and Architecton premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘Possible Love’ review: Lee Chang-dong explores class, desire and exploitation in powerful Venice competition return
The ‘Burning’ director reunites with star Sul Kyung-gu for an enigmatic drama about two married couples divided by wealth
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Reviews‘The Difficult Bride’ review: A fairytale Bangladeshi wedding turns into a nightmare in sharp feminist body horror
Rubaiyat Hossain’s latest work becomes the first Bangladeshi film to play in Venice
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Reviews‘Citizen Osama’ review: A Palestinian journalist balances war reportage with family life in harrowing Gaza doc
Ahmed Hassouna’s Venice out of competition title has been selected as Palestine’s official Oscar submission
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Reviews‘Father Joe’ review: Kiefer Sutherland takes holy orders in Luc Besson’s violent action romp
Al Pacino adds marquee heft to Barthélémy Grossmann’s knowingly trashy action thriller
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Reviews‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger’ review: Sentimental doc about UK band’s reunion plays best when it focuses on the music
Directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace chart Oasis’s 2025 tour in Venice out of competition title
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Reviews‘It Will Happen Tonight’ review: Nanni Moretti’s latest is unashamedly melodramatic Italian romance
Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca star in the director’s sprawling drama which premieres in Venice competition
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Reviews‘Primetime’ review: Robert Pattinson is ‘To Catch A Predator’ host Chris Hansen in visually striking, dramatically contrived thriller
Merritt Wever is also memorable in Lance Oppenheim’s feature debut, which bows in Venice competition
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Reviews'Diane In the Loop’ review: Quirky Belgian drama confronts the legacy of sexual violence
Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni’s funny, compassionate third feature is produced by the Dardenne brothers
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Reviews‘Imperium’ review: Sergei Loznitsa surveys the 1970s Soviet empire in revealing archive epic
Italian archive footage forms the basis of an expansive documentary with clear contemporary resonance
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Reviews‘Eklipse’ review: Tender 1999-set debut explores an Austrian childhood in the shadow of AIDS
Secrecy and stigma threaten a childhood friendship in Manuel Wetscher’s Venice Horizons premiere
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Reviews‘Our Share Of Sand’ review: A move from the UK to rural India proves a painful rite-of-passage in quietly powerful debut
Shalini Adnani’s level-headed Venice Critics Week titles features a strong performance from newcomer Maya Mehta
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Reviews‘Elsinore’ review: Andrew Scott is triumphant as terminally ill Scottish actor Ian Charleson in poignant ’80s theatreland drama
Simon Stone’s dramatisation of Charleson’s portrayal of Hamlet bows in Telluride before traveling to Toronto and London
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Reviews‘The Idiot(s)’ review: Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn spar in an audacious portrait of the Dostoevskys
An irreverent, eccentric take on the turbulent marriage behind one of literature’s great names
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Reviews‘Tender Loving Care’ review: Mike Leigh turns his compassionate gaze on contemporary Londoners
The veteran filmaker’s modestly scaled ensemble drama should connect with loyal admirers and discerning arthouse audiences
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Reviews‘Jupiter’ review: Denis Menochet is imposing in blunt, airless French nuclear war drama
Alexandre Smia’s feature debut invites comparisons to Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘House Of Dynamite’
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Reviews‘Furies’ review: George Clooney exec-produces this propulsive female-led Beirut bank-heist caper
Two sisters take on Lebanon’s broken economy in Rami Kodeih’s messy but hugely enjoyable Venice Spotlight title