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An Officer and a Spy (J’Accuse)

Eight years after the success of Carnage, celebrated auteur Roman Polanski returns to the Venice Film Festival with…

By Filippo L'Astorina
Venice

Marriage Story

It's very easy to praise a film like Marriage Story for its performances and sharp screenplay. Adam Driver…

By Filippo L'Astorina
Venice

Ad Astra

Slow-paced, with long silences and extensive voiceovers; Ad Astra might not be an easy film, but it's pretty great.…

By Filippo L'Astorina
Venice

The Truth (La Vérité)

Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu opens this year's Venice Film Festival with his debut international work, La Vérité, a family…

By Filippo L'Astorina
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The Tree House (Nhà cây)

The poetry of The Tree House is in its high concept framework that complicates space and time, its…

By Joseph Owen
Film festivals

Days of the Bagnold Summer

This isn’t bad! Erstwhile Inbetweener Simon Bird offers a basically competent telling of Joff Winterhart’s graphic novel, a…

By Joseph Owen
Film festivals

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

It's easy to equate romance with escape, emancipation with mobility. To movement, we live in deference. Joe Talbot’s…

By Joseph Owen