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Venice Film Festival

Two individuals, a woman with blonde hair and a man with glasses, seated at a dinner table.
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Disclaimer – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Alfon­so Cuarón’s lim­it­ed series star­ring Cate Blanchett as a famous doc­u­men­tar­i­an with a dark secret is a sur­pris­ing show­case for Kevin Kline.
Two figures in intimate embrace, man in black leather jacket, woman in light blouse, warm lighting.
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Kill the Jockey – first-look review

by Anahit Behrooz

A down-on-his-luck jock­ey sees a chance to rein­vent him­self in Luis Orte­ga’s wacky black comedy.
Silhouette of a person in a long, flowing cloak on a stage with bright lights.
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Maria – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Angeli­na Jolie has nev­er been bet­ter as the leg­endary opera singer Maria Callas, cap­tured in the final week of her life by Pablo Lar­raín’s ele­gant bio­graph­i­cal drama.
Three men sitting at a table, engaged in conversation, with glasses of wine or other drinks on the table.
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

In his lat­est doc­u­men­tary, the Amer­i­can mas­ter Fred­er­ick Wise­man observes the rou­tines of the Trois­gros fam­i­ly and their three fine din­ing restau­rants in France.
A woman with long red hair wearing a green jacket, standing in a forested area.
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Memory – first-look review

by Yasmine Kandil

Michel Fran­co’s dra­ma about the choke­hold of the past boasts star pow­er in Jes­si­ca Chas­tain and Peter Sars­gaard, but nev­er quite deliv­ers on its emo­tion­al premise.
Group of four people, two men and two women, sitting at a table in an office setting. The room has a wooden interior with ceiling tiles and windows. The individuals are dressed in formal attire, suggesting a business or legal context.
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Housekeeping for Beginners – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Goran Stolevski’s third fea­ture is a sto­ry of queer sol­i­dar­i­ty in North­ern Mace­do­nia that does­n’t quite come together.
Group of people sitting on the roof of a van, which is parked in a field at sunset. A campfire burns in the foreground.
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Gasoline Rainbow – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A group of teenagers set off on a post-grad­u­a­tion road trip in Bill and Turn­er Ross’s lat­est fea­ture, billed as their first fiction.
A man and woman embrace, their faces close together in an intimate moment.
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Origin – first-look review

by Anahit Behrooz

Ava DuVer­nay adapts Isabel Wilk­er­son­’s 2020 non-fic­tion book ​‘Caste: The Ori­gin of Our Dis­con­tents’ with some­what mixed results, inter­weav­ing Wilk­er­son­’s per­son­al sto­ry into one of sys­temic subjugation.
A man and woman in a dark, moody setting, the man has a serious expression.
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Hit Man – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Richard Lin­klater and Glen Pow­ell team up for a high­ly enter­tain­ing black com­e­dy about a mild-man­nered col­lege pro­fes­sor who becomes a fake hit man.
Greyscale portrait of an elderly man wearing glasses, with a serious expression.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus – first-look review

by Xuanlin Tham

The final per­for­mance of the late Japan­ese com­pos­er is cap­tured in stun­ning, heart-rend­ing detail by his son.