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Venice 2023

  1. venice 2023
    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
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    Ava DuVernay’s Origin Devastates Its AudienceThe new Ava DuVernay film is both essay and melodrama, though neither description quite does it justice.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    If Glen Powell’s Not Already a Star, This Movie Will Make Him OneRichard Linklater’s Hit Man is a genuinely fresh and surprisingly gentle addition to the assassin genre.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Harmony Korine’s New Anti-Movie Aggro Dr1ft Looks Cool For a Few MinutesThe night-vision hit-man feature starring Jordi Molla and Travis Scott is a unique exercise in tedium.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Bone-Chilling Infested Is Spiders All the Way DownThe 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
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    Mads Mikkelsen’s Cold, Hard Stare Awaits Us in the Epic Promised LandI cannot adequately express to you how perfect Mikkelsen is in this role; that sensuous frown of his has infinite layers.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In Ferrari, Adam Driver Is a Force of Steel, Asphalt, and DeathMichael Mann’s long-gestating movie is elegant and restless, with a sense throughout that something horrific is lurking around each corner.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Are So Weirdly Right Together in MemoryNot 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
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    Maestro Is a Masterful Reconstruction That Remains Just ThatThe 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
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    Emma Stone Has Created One of Cinema’s Most Shamelessly Sexual CharactersHer 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
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    The Killer Could Be a Great Comedy If David Fincher Let ItThere’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
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    There’s a Simple Enough Conceit in The Wonderful Story of Henry SugarA quaint, optimistically naive short kicks off Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl film series.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. best of the fests
    The 14 Best Movies We Saw at Venice and TIFF This YearFall festival season has brought a bounty of awards contenders, star-making performances, and must-see masterpieces.
    By Rachel Handler and Bilge Ebiri
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    Poor Thing, Yorgos Lanthimos Wins Golden Lion at the Venice Film FestivalFor his film, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone.
    By Alejandra Gularte
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    Peter Sarsgaard Moves Venice Film Festival With Touching SpeechThe Memory star dedicates his performance to a special member of his family.
    By Alejandra Gularte
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    The Hitmen, Horny Gals, and Hypermasc Bros of VeniceThis year’s film lineup hinted at a collective unconscious obsessed by performed masculinity, killing people for money, horniness, and Willem Dafoe.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Sofia Coppola’s Elvis Movie Brings Priscilla Presley to TearsThe subject of the dark, complex biopic called Priscilla “amazing” and reaffirmed that the rock star was the love of her life.
    By Rachel Handler
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    William Friedkin’s Final Film Makes You Question EverythingThe Caine Mutiny Court-Martial sends you out interrogating your beliefs — about war, about service, about madness, even about right and wrong.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Palazzo del Cinema Puzzle17-Across, Four Letters: 2021’s Best Picture.
    By Malaika Handa
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    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s New Movie Is an Anti-Capitalist Parable With a Shocking EndEvil 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
  21. venice film festival 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
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    We Are Asking the Wrong Question About Bradley Cooper’s Maestro NoseThe more fun question is: Are noses to Bradley Cooper what feet are to Quentin Tarantino?
    By Rachel Handler
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    The Vibes Are Off at VeniceBring back the movie stars … before it’s too late.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Adam Driver Wasn’t Allowed to Actually Drive on the Ferrari SetAt 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
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    The Blood Is Everywhere in Pablo Larraín’s Mesmerizing El CondeIt’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
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    What’s at Venice Film Festival? Fast Cars, Fake Noses.And (some) movie stars.
    By Bilge Ebiri and Rachel Handler