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Venice 2023
venice 2023
June 20, 2024
Agnieszka Holland’s
Green Border
Is an Urgent Warning
“I never had such a strong experience with audience reaction like I did with this film.”
By
Rachel Handler
movie review
June 10, 2024
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
movie review
June 7, 2024
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
movie review
May 10, 2024
Harmony Korine’s New Anti-Movie
Aggro Dr1ft
Looks Cool For a Few Minutes
The night-vision hit-man feature starring Jordi Molla and Travis Scott is a unique exercise in tedium.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Apr. 30, 2024
The Bone-Chilling
Infested
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
movie review
Feb. 2, 2024
Mads Mikkelsen’s Cold, Hard Stare Awaits Us in the Epic
Promised Land
I cannot adequately express to you how perfect Mikkelsen is in this role; that sensuous frown of his has infinite layers.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Dec. 25, 2023
In
Ferrari
, Adam Driver Is a Force of Steel, Asphalt, and Death
Michael Mann’s long-gestating movie is elegant and restless, with a sense throughout that something horrific is lurking around each corner.
By
Bilge Ebiri
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. 20, 2023
Maestro
Is a Masterful Reconstruction That Remains Just That
The Leonard Bernstein biopic somehow proves that Bradley Cooper is a director of genuine vision, even though it’s not a particularly successful movie.
By
Bilge Ebiri
poor things
Dec. 8, 2023
Emma Stone Has Created One of Cinema’s Most Shamelessly Sexual Characters
Her character in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest movie is her best role yet, one that is primed to earn her another Oscar nomination.
By
Rachel Handler
movie review
Oct. 27, 2023
The Killer
Could Be a Great Comedy If David Fincher Let It
There’s a thin line between self-reflection and self-parody, and
The Killer
comes dangerously close to crossing it a few too many times.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Sept. 27, 2023
There’s a Simple Enough Conceit in
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
A quaint, optimistically naive short kicks off Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl film series.
By
Bilge Ebiri
best of the fests
Sept. 16, 2023
The 14 Best Movies We Saw at Venice and TIFF This Year
Fall festival season has brought a bounty of awards contenders, star-making performances, and must-see masterpieces.
By
Rachel Handler
and
Bilge Ebiri
vittoria
Sept. 9, 2023
Poor Thing, Yorgos Lanthimos Wins Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
For his film,
Poor Things,
starring Emma Stone.
By
Alejandra Gularte
speeches
Sept. 9, 2023
Peter Sarsgaard Moves Venice Film Festival With Touching Speech
The
Memory
star dedicates his performance to a special member of his family.
By
Alejandra Gularte
venice 2023
Sept. 8, 2023
The Hitmen, Horny Gals, and Hypermasc Bros of Venice
This year’s film lineup hinted at a collective unconscious obsessed by performed masculinity, killing people for money, horniness, and Willem Dafoe.
By
Rachel Handler
venice 2023
Sept. 5, 2023
Sofia Coppola’s Elvis Movie Brings Priscilla Presley to Tears
The subject of the dark, complex biopic called
Priscilla
“amazing” and reaffirmed that the rock star was the love of her life.
By
Rachel Handler
venice 2023
Sept. 5, 2023
William Friedkin’s Final Film Makes You Question Everything
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
sends you out interrogating your beliefs — about war, about service, about madness, even about right and wrong.
By
Bilge Ebiri
vulture 10x10
Sept. 5, 2023
The Palazzo del Cinema Puzzle
17-Across, Four Letters: 2021’s Best Picture.
By
Malaika Handa
venice 2023
Sept. 4, 2023
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s New Movie Is an Anti-Capitalist Parable With a Shocking End
Evil Does Not Exist
is a smaller and simpler movie than
Drive My Car
, and can best be described as a sort of environmentalist folktale.
By
Rachel Handler
venice film festival 2023
Sept. 4, 2023
Is There Anything Léa Can’t Seydoux?
In her latest film at Venice,
The Beast,
Seydoux stars in three different genres at once.
By
Rachel Handler
venice 2023
Sept. 2, 2023
We Are Asking the Wrong Question About Bradley Cooper’s
Maestro
Nose
The more fun question is: Are noses to Bradley Cooper what feet are to Quentin Tarantino?
By
Rachel Handler
venice 2023
Sept. 2, 2023
The Vibes Are Off at Venice
Bring back the movie stars … before it’s too late.
By
Rachel Handler
venice 2023
Aug. 31, 2023
Adam Driver Wasn’t Allowed to Actually Drive on the
Ferrari
Set
At the film’s Venice press conference, Driver also questioned why big companies like Netflix and Amazon can’t meet SAG’s demands.
By
Rachel Handler
venice 2023
Aug. 31, 2023
The Blood Is Everywhere in Pablo Larraín’s Mesmerizing
El Conde
It’s fun to imagine this piece of agitprop provocation just appearing on the screens of millions of Netflix subscribers across the world.
By
Bilge Ebiri
venice 2023
Aug. 29, 2023
What’s at Venice Film Festival? Fast Cars, Fake Noses.
And (some) movie stars.
By
Bilge Ebiri
and
Rachel Handler