venice film festival reviews
‘The Theory of Everything’ Review: Visually Striking German Science Caper Fails to Captivate
German director Timm Kröger’s second feature, which premiered in competition in Venice, follows a young physicist attending a conference in the Alps.
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‘AGGRO DR1FT’ Review: Travis Scott in Harmony Korine’s Trippy, Experimental Assassin Flick
The latest work by the ‘Spring Breakers’ director, which features a score by beatmaker Araabmuzik, premiered out of competition in Venice.
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‘The Palace’ Review: Roman Polanski’s Dreadful Class Satire Attempts to Eat the Rich
The controversial 90-year-old director’s latest feature, starring Mickey Rourke, Fanny Ardant and John Cleese, premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.
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‘Maestro’ Review: Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper in a Moving Portrait of Leonard Bernstein’s Complex Marriage
In his second project as director, Cooper makes good on the promise of ‘A Star is Born’ with a Netflix bio-drama as stirringly symphonic and emotional as the subject’s music.
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‘Adagio’ Review: Gritty Italian Crime Epic Pulls You in Without Knocking You Dead
The latest feature from writer-director Stefano Sollima stars a trio of Italy’s finest actors as men on opposite sides of the law.
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‘Sidonie in Japan’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Gets Lost, and Found, in Translation
The Oscar-nominated French actress stars in this latest feature from writer-director Élise Girard, which premiered in the Venice Days sidebar.
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‘Poor Things’ Review: Emma Stone Is Stupendous as a Reanimated Woman Reinventing Herself in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Fantastical Odyssey
Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef also star in a genre-defying film that starts as absurdist comedy but evolves into an unconventional reflection on female freedom.
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‘The Promised Land’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen Smolders Magnificently in Nikolaj Arcel’s Gripping Historical Epic
The Danish director and star of the Oscar-nominated 'A Royal Affair' reteam on this Nordic Western about a low-born military man determined to cultivate the wild Jutland heath against daunting odds.
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‘Dogman’ Review: Caleb Landry Jones in Luc Besson’s Wild Drama About Crime, Canines and Drag
The actor stars in the French director’s latest English-language feature, which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
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‘Ferrari’ Review: Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz Bring Passion to Michael Mann’s Turbo-Charged Portrait of the Racecar Impresario
Shailene Woodley and Patrick Dempsey co-star in this study of the auto magnate at a turning point, betting everything on a treacherous 1,000-mile open-road race.
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‘El Conde’ Review: Pablo LarraÃn’s Bracingly Original Satire of the Pinochet Regime and the Cycles of Evil
The Chilean director’s Netflix feature is political farce as darkly funny vampire horror, offering an inventive take on why despots keep sinking their fangs into the world.
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‘Hollywoodgate’ Review: Chronicle of the Taliban’s Return to Power Fascinates and Frustrates
Ibrahim Nash'at's documentary follows two Taliban officials through the first year after the American withdrawal from Kabul.
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