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20-10-2025 Vol 19

Category: Venice 2025

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Venice Review: With Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro Crafts an Intricate World and Rhythmically Off-Kilter Adaptation

In the rather niche academic field of monster studies, the common understanding of monstrosity is very similar to that of…

Venice Review: Cover-Up Is the Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Three years after Venice welcomed (and awarded the Golden Lion to) Laura Poitras’s documentary about artist and activist Nan Goldin, All…

Venice Review: Ghost Elephants is Werner Herzog’s Yearning, Materialized

What opens Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants, even before we hear the German filmmaker’s distinctive cadence, is the National Geographic logo.…

Venice Review: Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt Offers a Regressive, Unimaginative Take on Post-MeToo Era

“It’s a fucking minefield, Alma,” the Dean of Humanities at Yale warns Julia Roberts’ Dr. Imhoff. Barely a few days…

Venice Review: Strange River Announces Jaume Claret Muxart as a Major Talent

Traveling in a foreign land can be disorienting. Established routines lose their meaning. Unfamiliar sights, sounds, smells may trigger old…

Venice Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia Honors Its Korean Predecessor with a Potent Mix of Comedy and Horror

After dabbling in dystopian fantasy (The Lobster) and period comedy (The Favourite), shocking us along the way with original creations…

Venice Review: MEGADOC Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Francis Ford Coppola’s Legendary Big Swing

A risky filmmaking project with Francis Ford Coppola––what could go wrong? Or more accurately: imagine what might go legendarily right.…

Venice Review: La Grazia Finds Paolo Sorrentino Struggling to Match Toni Servillo’s Talents

In something of a rare feat, all three of the most prominent European film festivals chose the works of homegrown…

Venice Film Festival Unveils 2025 Lineup

Celebrating its 82nd edition this year, Venice Film Festival will take place August 27 through September 6. Ahead of the…