Venice Film Festival

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.

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.

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.

Love – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Dag Johan Haugerud's exploration of human desire is a sadly all too sterile affair.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m Still Here – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Walter Salles returns to narrative filmmaking with a sensitive depiction of the forced disappearance of former congressman Rubens Paiva, and the devastation his family faced.

The Room Next Door – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language feature debut with an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as old friends who reunite in a time of crisis.

Phantosmia – first-look review

By Anna McKibbin

The Filipino maestro returns with a four-hour meditative drama about a retired military officer who must confront his past after receiving an unusual medical diagnosis.

Leurs Enfants Après Eux – first-look review

By Yasmine Kandil

A wayward teenager in a struggling French town comes of age and experiences first over in Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma's stirring melodrama.

Wolfs – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

George Clooney and Brad Pitt play lone wolf fixers accidentally hired for the same job in Jon Watts' slightly repetitive but generally fine crime comedy.

From Darkness to Light – first-look review

By Ed Gibbs

The true story behind Jerry Lewis’ mythical, unseen fiasco, The Day the Clown Cried, is finally revealed, with the King of Comedy himself weighing in.

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