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‘Official Competition’ With Penélope Cruz & Antonio Banderas Is A Crowd-Pleasing Comedy That Skewers Film-World Pretensions [Venice Review]

September 4, 2021 2:34 pm

There are shades of Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square” if it were remade to target the film world, in Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s crowd-pleasing Spanish comedy "Official Competition" starring Penélope Cruz and ...

Michelangelo Frammartino’s ‘Il Buco’ Is a Mournful Meditation on Earth’s Vanishing Mysteries [Venice Review]

Charles Bramesco

September 4, 2021 1:29 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Near the town of Cerchiara, in a valley nestled within the Pollino massif of mountains on the border between the Calabria and Basilicata regions of lushest Italy, there is a hole. It’s not the biggest hole, bu...

‘Promises’ With Isabelle Huppert Is A Lackluster Political Drama [Venice Review]

Sophie Monks Kaufman

September 3, 2021 1:40 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

A film about politics with a title like “Promises” all but comes with a get-out clause for failing to deliver on early hopes. And so it is with French director Thomas Kruithof’s lackluster second feature, whic...

‘Dune’: Denis Villeneuve Crafts A Spellbinding Arthouse Blockbuster Odyssey About Destiny & Betrayal [Venice Review]

Rodrigo Perez

September 3, 2021 12:45 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

“A great man doesn’t seek to lead; he is called to it,” Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) says somberly to his son Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), in Denis Villeneuve’s dynastic epic space odyssey “Dune.” Th...

Kristen Stewart Is An Incandescent Diana In Pablo Larraín’s Tremendous ‘Spencer’ [Venice Review]

Jessica Kiang

September 3, 2021 10:15 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

If you have even the smallest dislike of the grotesquely redundant and regressive institution that is the British monarchy, one of the greatest pleasures of the shamelessly pleasurable, archly self-aware, high...

‘The Card Counter:’ Oscar Isaac Scorches In Paul Schrader’s Hypnotic, Slow-Burn Moral Thriller [Venice Review]

Rodrigo Perez

September 2, 2021 4:08 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

What if you’ve paid your debt to society, but the spiritual weight of what you truly owe for your past actions can never be repaid in full? Following the terrific comeback reception to “First Reformed” and the...

The Hand of God, International Film, Paolo Sorrentino

‘The Hand Of God’: Paolo Sorrentino Touches Divinity With An Evocative Coming Of Age Magnum Opus [Venice Review]

Rodrigo Perez

September 2, 2021 1:15 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

“I don't like reality anymore. Reality is lousy,” teenager Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) says mournfully at a crucial, spiritually lonely moment in Paolo Sorrentino’s evocative new coming of age story, “The...

Best Actor, The Power Of The Dog, TIFF, Venice, Telluride

‘Power Of The Dog’: Jane Campion Crafts Cinematic Poetry In Her Triumphant Big-Screen Return With Benedict Cumberbatch [Venice Review]

Tomris Laffly

September 2, 2021 10:31 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

The ghost of a legendary cowboy named Bronco Henry haunts “The Power of the Dog,” an evocative, sensory psychodrama set in the American West of the 1920s. While Bronco is long gone and never seen on the screen...

‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’ Is A (Mostly) Fascinating Chronicle Of A Musical Masterpiece [Venice Review]

Jason Bailey

September 2, 2021 9:58 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Daniel Gellar and Dayna Goldfine’s “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” begins at what is, by most definitions, the end: with Cohen’s final concert, in December of 2013. He roams ...

Venice Film Festival Line-Up 2021, Dune, More

Venice Film Festival 2021 Preview: 12 Must-See Films To Watch

Andrew Bundy

August 26, 2021 2:42 pm

Features, Festivals, News

It’s late August, and while the leaves aren’t falling just quite yet, the Fall Film Festival season is upon us. As usual, the Venice Film Festival always starts with the Telluride Film Festival following on it...

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