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Venice Film Festival
movie review
Dec. 22, 2023
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Are So Weirdly Right Together in Memory Not a lot of Michel Franco’s somber drama makes sense, but it’s a movie clearly meant to be carried by its leads.
By Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Dec. 8, 2023
Ava DuVernay’s Origin Devastates Its Audience The new Ava DuVernay film is both essay and melodrama, though neither description quite does it justice.
By Bilge Ebiri
venice 2023
Sept. 9, 2023
The Most Terrifying Film at Venice Is Spiders All the Way Down The first time an army of tiny spider-babies appeared, my body bent into a shape it has never taken before or since.
By Bilge Ebiri
venice 2023
Sept. 8, 2023
Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border Is an Urgent Warning “The Holocaust was a vaccination for humanity, especially for Europe, against nationalism and racism. And now it’s evaporating.”
By Rachel Handler
2023 venice film festival
Sept. 8, 2023
Jessica Chastain Was ‘Very Nervous’ to Attend Venice Amid Strike Promoting Memory after the indie film signed an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA.
By Zoe Guy
venice 2023
Sept. 7, 2023
If Glen Powell’s Not Already a Star, This Movie Will Make Him One Richard Linklater’s Hit Man is a genuinely fresh and surprisingly gentle addition to the assassin genre.
By Bilge Ebiri
venice film festival 2023
July 25, 2023
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things Will Premiere at Venice Film Festival The full lineup teases new work from Ava DuVernay, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and Bradley Cooper.
By Zoe Guy
coming soon
Nov. 16, 2022
What (or Who) Is Bones and All Cooking Up? Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet slay in the gory cannibal romance.
By Zoe Guy
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 23, 2022
Don’t Worry Darling Is Smooth, Competent, and TediousOlivia Wilde’s film is neither as good nor as bad as you were hoping.
By Bilge Ebiri
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 10, 2022
By Alejandra Gularte
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 9, 2022
About That Blowjob Scene in Blonde The Blonde cast and crew seem surprised at the film’s NC-17 rating. It’s pretty clear to anyone who has seen it that this scene is the reason why.
By Bilge Ebiri
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 7, 2022
Lars von Trier Has No Final Reassurances The final season of The Kingdom is twisted and distressing, yet returning to the series’ confines is like slipping into a warm embrace.
By Bilge Ebiri
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 5, 2022
The Whale Is a Perfect Comeback Role for Brendan FraserProsthetic or no, it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the part, frankly.
By Bilge Ebiri
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 3, 2022
The Iñárritu Wars Begin Again Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s much-hyped and achingly sincere Netflix movie Bardo arrived at Venice, only to be swiftly panned.
By Bilge Ebiri
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 3, 2022
Believe Everything You’ve Heard About Cate Blanchett in Tár She is sensational in Todd Field’s film, playing an imperious chief conductor. But she has to be sensational.
By Bilge Ebiri
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 2, 2022
Ath-e-na, Ath-e-na, Ath-e-na Romain Gavras’s electrifying new film turns an uprising in a French housing project into a brutal, riveting Greek tragedy.
By Bilge Ebiri
biennale cinema 2022
Sept. 1, 2022
Noah Baumbach Turned White Noise Into a 1980s Spielbergian Spectacle (Sort of) Yet this black comedy may be too bizarre to be appreciated by those waiting for a big, star-studded festival oomph.
By Bilge Ebiri
on the lido
July 26, 2022
Venice Film Festival Announces Stacked Full Lineup Featuring new titles from Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg, and Jafar Panahi, among others.
By Zoe Guy
movie review
Sept. 2, 2021
The Power of the Dog and Jane Campion’s Triumphant ReturnHer new Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst may be one of her greatest films.
By Bilge Ebiri
venice film festival
July 26, 2021
By Cydney Lee
venice film festival
July 12, 2021
Princess Diana Biopic Spencer to Premiere at Venice Film Festival The drama film stars Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and Jack Farthing as Prince Charles.
By Cydney Lee
The Stunning Awkwardness of Face Masks on the Red Carpet Celebrities tried to make the best of a strange situation at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
By Emilia Petrarca
film festivals
Sept. 12, 2020
Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland Takes Top Prize at 2020 Venice Film Festival She’s the first female director to win the Golden Lion in a decade.
By Chris Murphy
film festivals
July 28, 2020
By Zoe Haylock
cannes 2020
July 21, 2020
How Each Major Film Festival Is Responding to the Coronavirus Telluride is canceled, and TIFF tells journalists to stay away.
By Nate Jones
sorry to this fest
Apr. 20, 2020
Venice Film Festival Is Going Forward With or Without Cannes The festival’s president says there is “no dialogue” about a joint venture this year.
By Zoe Haylock
movie review
Oct. 1, 2019
Joker Is One Unpleasant Note Played Louder and LouderJoaquin Phoenix is impressive, but the film panders to selfish, small-minded feelings of resentment.
By David Edelstein
award season
Sept. 7, 2019
By Devon Ivie
venice film festival
Sept. 2, 2019
Spike Lee Calls Nate Parker’s New Film a ‘Part of History’ At the Venice Film Festival, the American Skin filmmaker apologized for his past “tone-deaf” behavior.
By Christina Newland
venice film festival
Sept. 2, 2019
The King Director Cast Robert Pattinson and His Wig for ‘Razzle-Dazzle’At a press conference in Venice, David Michôd teased his new Netflix movie.
By Alexander Bisley
venice film festival
Aug. 31, 2019
8 Things to Know About Joker , Before We’re Allowed to Say If It’s Good At the Venice Film Festival, the director said his Joaquin Phoenix movie is “certainly not a political film.” Now that’s comedy!
By Jessica Kiang
venice film festival
Aug. 31, 2019
What Does Joker Mean for the Future of Comic-Book Movies? Todd Phillips’s film drips with arthouse seriousness and unabashed provocation, packaged inside recognizable IP.
By Jessica Kiang
venice film festival
Aug. 31, 2019
Roman Polanski’s Film Premieres at Venice Film Festival to Applause An Officer and a Spy (J’Accuse ) cast and producers refused to discuss their absent director’s rape conviction.
By Jessica Kiang
mysterious rumors
Aug. 29, 2019
What Could Brad Pitt’s New Tattoo Possibly Mean? A reference to Benjamin Button ? Or something more sinister?
By Kelly Conaboy
venice 2019
July 25, 2019
By Zoe Haylock
venice film festival
Oct. 24, 2018
Suspiria Is a Bleak, Gorgeous, Radical Reimagining of Its PredecessorLuca Guadagnino’s gruesome reimagining has neither style nor substance in common with Dario Argento’s giallo classic, and it’s all the better for it.
By Emily Yoshida
the festival circuit
Sept. 8, 2018
By Devon Ivie
venice film festival
Sept. 4, 2018
Venice Has a Lot of Women’s Stories — and Not a Lot of Women Storytellers There are only eight films directed by women in the official selection, and a lone woman director in this year’s 21-deep competition lineup.
By Emily Yoshida
Imagine This Guy Making This ‘Weinstein Is Innocent’ Tee for Suspiria’s Premiere Italian director Luciano Silighini Garagnani donned his homemade protest top for the Venice Film Festival red carpet.
By Halle Kiefer
venice film festival
Sept. 2, 2018
By Emily Yoshida
venice film festival
Sept. 2, 2018
Lady Gaga Shines in A Star Is Born. But Is It Bradley Cooper’s Oscar Play? Plus the Coen brothers’ cowboy misfire, Mike Leigh’s rousing Peterloo , and more updates from the Venice Film Festival
By Emily Yoshida
inspiration
Aug. 31, 2018
By Lisa Ryan
venice film festival
Aug. 31, 2018
By Emily Yoshida
venice film festival
Aug. 30, 2018
By Jackson McHenry
Venice Is Over the Moon for Damien Chazelle’s First Man Critics say the Neil Armstrong biopic is a giant leap for the young director.
By Nate Jones
movie reviews
Aug. 27, 2018
By Nate Jones
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