Report From Venice

Documentarian Alice Diop makes a riveting fiction debut with this courtroom drama of a Senegalese woman on trial for infanticide

This claustrophobic adaptation of a play simultaneously feels like a departure and entirely of a piece with his filmography

The Oscar-winning auteur’s most ambitious film yet pulls no punches in his exploration of his homeland and his own life

Laura Poitras’ Golden Lion–winner tracks the artist’s life and her commitment to taking on the Sackler family’s presence in the museum world

Venice Film Festival 2022: Swinton takes over the role of stand-in for director Joanna Hogg while still playing the matriarch in this haunting look at parent-child bonds

Santiago Mitre doesn’t rewrite the historical drama, but his courtroom procedural on the Trial of the Juntas is an effective crowd-pleaser

The film’s handful of grace notes are overpowered by lots of cut-short scenes that seem to signal the director’s impatience

The story of a clash between cops and the Middle Eastern community calls to mind co-writer Ladj Ly’s recent “Les Misérables”