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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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Podcast

Eddington | Sorry, Baby + Eva Victor | Blazing Saddles (1974)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Ari Aster’s return with neo-western Eddington as well Eva Victor’s astonishing debut Sorry, Baby and she joins us to discuss her film. Finally, for Film Club, we revisited Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles. 
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Podcast

Together | Materialists | Blue Valentine (2010)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss all things co-dependency cinema with Alison Brie horror flick Together, Celine Song’s romantic drama Materialists. Finally for film club we revisit the exquisite doomed romance of Blue Valentine.
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Review

Mother Vera review – complex and highly affecting

by Nathan Lewis

Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson’s arresting portrait of a former drug addict turned Orthodox nun with a deep love for horses.

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Review

The Toxic Avenger review – an infuriatingly unfunny remake

by Anton Bitel

Macon Blair’s remake of Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman’s 1984 outlandish superhero cult film is a colossal misfire.

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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.
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Venice Film Festival

Orphan – first-look review

by Marshall Shaffer

Despite a compelling scenario, the characters in László Nemes’s third feature feel more like stand-ins for ideas than flesh-and-blood people.
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Review

Little Trouble Girls review – profoundly sensuous cinema

by Laura Venning

Set in a Catholic school all-girls choir, Urška Djukić’s take on queer yearning and repression adopts a less obvious and more interesting approach to the familiar coming-of-age story.

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