Category: Venice

The winner of last year’s Golden Lion for The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro joked “Let me see ifContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ The lone woman in competition here at the Venice Film Festival, Jennifer Kent brings her Tasmanian gothic tale TheContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Hungarian director László Nemes’ long-awaited follow-up to his Oscar-winning Son of Saul, Sunset thrusts us into a Mitteleuropean heartContinue Reading

★★★★★ We’ve already had A Star Is Born here at Venice. Now, with Brady Corbet’s latest film Vox Lux, weContinue Reading

★★☆☆☆ S. Craig Zahler falls between ever-widening stools with his brutal new crime drama Dragged Across Concrete, which might haveContinue Reading

★★★★★ Black lives matter in Roberto Minervini’s new film What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, boasting theContinue Reading

★★★★☆ French Palme d’Or winner Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers gallops onto the Venice Lido this year with John C.Continue Reading

★★★☆☆ A troubled young man goes on tour with a renowned lobotomist in Rick Alverson’s wintry new work The Mountain, showingContinue Reading

This Wednesday (29 August) will see the official opening of the 75th Venice Film Festival. The programme is crammed withContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Having sold his 2013 Cannes Palme d’Or to complete his latest film – the follow-up to Blue Is theContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Showing Out of Competition at Venice, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond goes behind the scenes on the shootingContinue Reading

★☆☆☆☆ Sebastiano Riso flies the Italian flag on the Lido with his new film Una Famiglia, a claustrophobic, scuzzy dramaContinue Reading