Cate Blanchett to Serve as Jury President of 2020 Venice Film Festival
Blanchett becomes the eighth woman to serve as jury president of the Venice Film Festival.
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Memo to Distributors: Buy These 2019 Movies From TIFF, Telluride, and Venice
These highlights from the fall festival circuit still need homes. Somebody do something!
‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ Review: Ciro Guerra’s Anti-Imperialism Screed Is Far From Radical
Venice: Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson, and Johnny Depp lead Guerra’s first English-language film, an adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel.
‘Mosul’ Review: Anthony and Joe Russo Present an Intense but Impersonal Actioner About Fighting ISIS
Produced by the Russo brothers, Matthew Michael Carnahan’s pulse-pounding film about an Iraqi SWAT team is visceral but frustratingly vague.
‘Saturday Fiction’ Review: Gong Li Shines in a Gorgeous but Frustrating Spy Thriller
Venice: Lou Ye’s gorgeous black-and-white thriller tells a convoluted story about a romantic obsession that erupts into World War II.
‘Babyteeth’ Review: Eliza Scanlen Leads Vibrant and Touching Australian Cancer Drama
Ben Mendelsohn, Eliza Scanlen, and “Babadook” star Essie Davis bring heartbreaking truth and realness to a film with shades of Jane Campion.
‘Guest of Honour’ Review: Atom Egoyan’s Riveting but Ridiculous Melodrama About Sex Crimes and Meat Thermometers
What do sexting, Luke Wilson, health codes, and a rabbit named Benjamin Bunny have in common? Atom Egoyan’s absurd new film has the answers.
‘About Endlessness’ Review: Roy Andersson’s Brief and Brilliant Vision of Eternity
You give Roy Andersson 76 minutes, and he’ll give you the universe.
‘The King’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Rules, But Netflix’s Shakespearean Epic Is No Crowning Achievement
No movie that features Robert Pattinson as a sociopathic dauphin should feel this flat or familiar, but “The King” squanders its cast.
‘About Endlessness’ Exclusive Trailer: Roy Andersson Returns With Another Mordant Examination of Man’s Follies
The latest from the “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” director world premieres in Venice this week.
‘Martin Eden’ Review: A Poor Writer Is Tortured by His Own Success in Ambivalent Jack London Adaptation
Luca Marinelli stars as London’s most embittered hero in this spry but frustratingly vague Italian adaptation of a socialist classic.
‘Wasp Network’ Review: Olivier Assayas’ Spy Epic Is a Rare Misstep From a Master Filmmaker
Assayas is among the world’s greatest filmmakers, but his rushed and scattered Cuban spy epic bites off more than it can chew.
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