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Venice Film Festival

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The 2025 Venice line-up is insanely stacked

by Nathan Lewis

Festival chief Alberto Barbara has pulled out all the stops to deliver a star-spangled and mouth-watering set of titles.
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Familiar Touch – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Sarah Friedland’s feature debut is a stunning, sensory-forward portrait of a woman with dementia adapting to life in an assisted living facility.
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April – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s stark Georgian drama follows an obstetrician who moonlights as an abortionist, as she is accused of interfering with her patients.
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Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 – first-look review

by Luke Hicks

Kevin Costner deftly keeps the wheels turning on his hyper ambitious four-part western saga, despite a lukewarm reception and scrapped release.
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Love – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Dag Johan Haugerud’s exploration of human desire is a sadly all too sterile affair.
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Youth (Homecoming) – first-look review

by Anna McKibbin

The final chapter in Wang Bing’s epic trilogy examines love old and new in China’s Zhili province.
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Pavements – first-look review

by Luke Hicks

Alex Ross Perry creates a unique docu-fiction about cult indie band Pavement, blurring the lines between real and fake to excellent comedic effect.
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Joker: Folie à Deux – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.
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The Quiet Son – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Vincent Lindon stars as a widower trying to steer his young song away from the far right in the Coulin Sisters’ frustrating drama.
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Queer – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagnino heads on down to Mexico with Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in his freewheeling take on William S. Burroughs’ eponymous novel.
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2073 – first-look review

by Anahit Behrooz

Bending the boundaries of documentary and sci-fi, Asif Kapadia presents an urgent message about the current state of the world, and where we might be headed, with help from Samantha Morton.
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Harvest – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s solemn adaptation of Jim Crace’s historical novel concentrates on the changing face of a Scottish farming village as the agricultural revolution begins.