Venice Reviews
‘Youth (Homecoming)’ Review: Documentarian Wang Bing Concludes His Chinese Garment Workers Trilogy in Compelling Fashion
A follow-up to 2023's 'Youth (Spring)' and this year's 'Youth (Hard Times),' the film follows several factory workers as they return to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year.
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‘Love’ Review: A Charming and Intelligent Norwegian Dramedy to Win Over Hearts and Minds
The film, about two colleagues with very different approaches to sex and romance, is the second in a planned thematic trilogy from writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud.
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‘Happy Holidays’ Review: A Cleverly Structured Palestinian Drama Explores Constriction and Complicity in Israeli Society
The latest feature by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Scandar Copti ('Ajami') observes four characters whose fates are linked through a series of surprising events.
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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter Two’ Review: Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Trudges Ahead With a Slightly More Watchable Sequel
Sienna Miller, Giovanni Ribisi and Luke Wilson also star in the sprawling adventure, intended as part of a four-film series about the settlement of the American frontier.
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‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: A Slippery, Well-Acted Singaporean Thriller About Observation and Surveillance
The latest from director Yeo Siew Hua ('A Land Imagined') centers on a couple whose secrets are exposed after their young daughter goes missing.
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‘Of Dogs and Men’ Review: A Thoughtful and Quietly Powerful Israeli Docudrama Explores the Aftermath of Oct. 7
Director Dani Rosenberg ('The Vanishing Soldier') shot his latest feature at the Nir Oz kibbutz just weeks after the attacks that ignited the current Israel-Hamas war.
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‘April’ Review: A Doctor Dispenses Off-The-Books Abortions in Miraculous, Wrenching Georgian Drama
'Beginning' star Ia Sukhitashvili reunites with director Dea Kulumbegashvili for her second feature, about an OB-GYN operating in a remote rural community.
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‘Diva Futura’ Review: A Messy but Well-Acted Celebration of the Golden Age of an Italian Porn Empire
Based on a memoir by Debora Attanasio, the Venice Film Festival entry charts the rise of an adult entertainment studio through the 1980s and 1990s.
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‘2073’ Review: Samantha Morton Leads Asif Kapadia’s Bold but Bleak Docu-Fiction Hybrid About Future Crisis
The genre-bending film combines real archival footage and original interviews with a fictional dystopian narrative to issue an urgent warning about disaster to come.
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‘Joker: Folie à  Deux’ Review: Frustrating Sequel Is Most Electric When Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga Sing, Dance and Romance
Todd Phillips follows his neo-noir psychodrama with another probe into the title character’s tormented mind, this time with splashy musical numbers.
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‘The Quiet Son’ Review: Far-Right Radicalism Pulls a Family Apart in an Intensely Performed French Drama
In the fourth feature by directors Delphine and Muriel Coulin ('17 Girls'), Vincent Lindon plays a father whose older son gets drawn into a group of extremist thugs.
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‘Pavements’ Review: Alex Ross Perry’s Multifaceted Portrait of the Influential ’90s Band Is All-Encompassing and a Bit Exhausting
Premiering in Venice, the latest from the director of 'Her Smell' uses different formats and genres to explore the highs and lows of a group that was more respected than it was ever mainstream.
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