Festivals

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Venice Film Festival

The Wizard of the Kremlin – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Olivier Assayas’ mad and maddening take on the mastermind behind Putin never quite lands a proper punch.
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Venice Film Festival

Ish – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Imran Perretta’s feature debut bursts with life thanks to its magnificent central performances. 
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Venice Film Festival

No Other Choice – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Park Chan-wook’s cutthroat satire sees a middle manager resort to desperate measures after he’s laid off from his job at a paper company.
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Venice Film Festival

Cover-Up – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ searing chronicle of global atrocities as uncovered by dogged investigative reporting veteran, Sy Hersh.
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Venice Film Festival

Frankenstein – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Guillermo del Toro achieves his life-long dream, adapting Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with resplendent results.
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Venice Film Festival

Rose of Nevada – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Mark Jenkin’s third feature film, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner as fishermen whose lives go awry, is a moving tale of personal versus communal sacrifice.
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Venice Film Festival

After the Hunt – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagnino’s knotty psychodrama confronts our most selfish impulses against the backdrop of a Yale University scandal.
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Venice Film Festival

Ghost Elephants – first-look review

by Leila Latif

Werner Herzog peers into the Angolan highlands in search of colossal elephants, and ends up gently reflecting on the ghosts of human longing.
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Venice Film Festival

Jay Kelly – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Noah Baumbach’s new dramedy isn’t breaking new ground, but it’s a charming, wistful take on what lies beneath the myth of celebrity.
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Venice Film Festival

Bugonia – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Yorgos Lanthimos’ stylish and sardonic take on the Korean sci-fi caper Save The Green Planet! defies the remake odds.