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Venice Film Festival

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Festivals

Dead for a Dollar – first-look review

by Leila Latif

There should be a warrant out for someone’s arrest after this dire western from Walter Hill.
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Festivals

The Eternal Daughter – first-look review

by Catherine Bray

Tilda Swinton plays both mother and daughter in Joanna Hogg’s eerie and effective exploration of parent-child relationships.
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Festivals

Love Life – first-look review

by Xuanlin Tham

Koji Fukuda’s ninth feature fails to meet the mark when it comes to exploring the knotty topic of familial grief.
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Festivals

Don’t Worry Darling – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Florence Pugh can’t save this underwhelming retro sci-fi from its overreliance on genre cliches.
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Festivals

The Banshees of Inisherin – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Martin McDonagh reunites with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson for a biting but charming examination of a disintegrating friendship against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War.
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Festivals

The Whale – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Brendan Fraser gives his all as a morbidly obese man trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter before his death.
Two people, a woman with blonde hair and a young boy, engaged in conversation outdoors.
Festivals

Other People’s Children – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Rebecca Zlotowski’s wistful character study of a woman navigating the highs and lows of middle age bursts with passion and insight.
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Festivals

Pearl – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Mia Goth reprises her role as a homicidal farm girl in Ti West’s aesthetically pleasing but otherwise empty horror prequel.
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Festivals

Master Gardener – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist with a troubled past in Paul Schrader’s beautiful but underwhelming drama.
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Festivals

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – first-look review

by Leila Latif

Laura Poitras documents US artist Nan Goldin’s attempts to expose the Sackler family for their role in the US opioid crisis, but with mixed results.