Monday

20-10-2025 Vol 19

Category: Venice 2025

Auto Added by WPeMatico

Venice Review: Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire Offers a Good Time at the Movies

Gus Van Sant returns with Dead Man’s Wire, a movie shot in the same late-70s hues as Kelly Reichardt’s recent…

Venice Review: Pin de Fartie Is a Playful, Head-Spinning Take on Samuel Beckett

Since the early 2000s, the fiercely independent Argentine filmmaking collective El Pampero Cine has built a sui generis filmography by…

Venice Review: Amanda Seyfried Gives Her Finest Performance In Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee

In The Testament of Ann Lee, Amanda Seyfried gives the finest performance of her career. The actress shakes, rattles, and…

Venice Review: Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante Crafts a Frenzied, Flimsy Adventure for Oscar Isaac and Martin Scorsese

“There is no reason why a kid from a family of gangsters couldn’t be the reincarnation of Dante Alighieri,” reads…

Venice Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is an Anthology of Late Style

Father Mother Sister Brother offers three movies for the price of one. The first is set on a frosty lakeside…

Venice Review: In Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is a Ruthlessly Effective Thriller

If human life were to essentially grind to a halt tomorrow, would it be due to a) the itchy trigger…

Venice Review: François Ozon’s The Stranger Finally Gives Albert Camus’ Novel Its Cinematic Due

Nobel laureate Albert Camus is one of the most consequential thinkers and writers in the French language, having created absurdist…

Venice Review: An Impressive Dwayne Johnson Softens Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine

The Smashing Machine is a movie with a lot of heart and soul. It’s also a movie with great love…

Venice Review: The Wizard of Kremlin Proves an Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian 

In April 2022, two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italian author and political writer Giuliano da Empoli published a…

Venice Review: Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada is a Stupefying, Time-Slipping Ghost Story

The films of Mark Jenkin ooze a hypnotic, seasick sensibility; to watch them is to be lulled by their restless…