Report From Venice
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‘Nuclear’ Film Review: Oliver Stone Defends Nukes as a Power Source in Didactic Documentary
Venice Film Festival 2022: Stock footage, graphs and Stone’s own narration confirm the Oscar-winning director is here to teach rather than to entertain
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‘Blonde’ Film Review: Ana de Armas Recreates Marilyn and Norma Jeane, in Black and White and Technicolor
Venice Film Festival 2022: Director Andrew Dominik pivots between the nightmare of fame and hooray-for-Hollywood grandeur with surrealist flair
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‘Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America’ Film Review: Enjoyable Doc Celebrates Spaghetti-Western Auteur
Venice Film Festival 2022: Eastwood, Scorsese, Spielberg and Tarantino help pay homage to the cinema giant behind classics of the genre
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‘Love Life’ Film Review: Soulful Japanese Drama Finds Solitude and Solace in Connections
Venice Film Festival 2022: The latest from Kôji Fukada (“A Girl Missing”) finds emotional power and interactivity in cramped and often silent spaces
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‘When the Waves Are Gone’ Film Review: Lav Diaz Creates Another Haunting Portrait, at His Own Pace
Venice 2022: The Filipino director, known for his lengthy running times, crafts a tale of two policemen at odds with stronger visuals than dialogue
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‘The Ghost of Richard Harris’ Review: Larger-Than-Life Actor Remembered Ruefully and Gratefully
Venice Film Festival 2022: The children and co-stars of the legendary movie star, musician and drunkard all have stories to tell about the screen icon
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‘Monica’ Film Review: Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson Find Aching Truth in Hushed Family Drama
Venice Film Festival 2022: Writer-director Andrea Pallaoro frames Lysette in scenarios where she seems isolated and trapped, like Monica Vitti in vintage Michelangelo Antonioni
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‘A Compassionate Spy’ Film Review: Steve James Doc Examines a WWII Scientist’s Moral Espionage
Venice Film Festival 2022: The “Hoop Dreams” director sheds a light on Ted Hall, who shared atomic secrets with the USSR, but places his acts in the context of the USA’s post-war nuclear ambitions
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‘Inu-Oh’ Film Review: Feudal Anime Mixes Headbanging Pyrotechnics and Political Defiance
Masaaki Yuasa blends genres and ideas in a brilliantly intense and unhinged animated feature
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‘Official Competition’ Film Review: Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz Cut Loose in Breezy Comedy
The actors’ megawatt charisma is enough to carry the show, at least for a while
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‘Parallel Mothers’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar Both Fulfills and Upends Expectations
This tale of maternity gives you the melodrama and art-direction you expect from the Spanish auteur, but with a provocative and unpredictable spin
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‘The Hand of God’ Film Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Autobiographical Coming-of-Age Tale Sticks to the Shallow End
The “Great Beauty” director clearly wants his own “Amarcord,” but he seems to lack a point of view about his own origins
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‘The Power of the Dog’ Film Review: Jane Campion Western Explores Cowboy Masculinity as Camouflage
Benedict Cumberbatch gives perhaps his best performance to date, as part of a powerhouse ensemble that includes Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons
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‘7 Prisoners’ Film Review: Brutal Brazilian Drama Examines Modern-Day Slavery and Exploitation
Rodrigo Santoro plays a cruel boss who’s merely part of a pyramid of economic abuse in this social-realist powerhouse
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‘Spencer’ Film Review: Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana Makes for a Brilliant and Silly Drama
Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s film has the potential to become a gothic, almost camp classic