Report From Venice
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‘Dune’ Film Review: Huge Sci-Fi Epic Is Relentlessly Dark But Thrilling
Timothée Chalamet stars in Denis Villeneuve’s dazzling and frustrating take on Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 novel
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‘The Last Duel’ Film Review: Matt Damon’s Medieval Hero Outshines Ridley Scott’s Muddled Mystery
Great performances and stunning cinematography can’t save a would-be “Rashomon” that forfeits its ambiguity
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‘Halloween Kills’ Film Review: Michael Myers Lives to Kill Yet Again in Effective Sequel
Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie is joined by characters we haven’t seen since the 1978 original, as Haddonfield fights back against its collective nightmare
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‘Old Henry’ Film Review: Tim Blake Nelson Is a Reluctant Hero in Intimate Western Gem
Writer-director Potsy Ponciroli has made a dark, sorrowful meditation on aging, guilt and redemption
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‘The Card Counter’ Film Review: Oscar Isaac’s Gambler Is Haunted by His Torturous Past
Paul Schrader once again plumbs the themes that typify his screen output, but he finds new grace notes along the way
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‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ Film Review: Ana Lily Amirpour Whips Up a Heady Bourbon Street Cocktail
Venice 2021: The director’s third film stars Jeon Jong-seo and Kate Hudson and draws from superhero cinema, raver subculture and Southern Gothic fiction
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‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Film Review: Like the Band, the Movie Is Potent and Excessive
Venice Film Festival 2021: Bernard MacMahon’s documentary includes rare interviews with the surviving members of the band
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‘The Lost Daughter’ Film Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Captures the Secret Life of Mothers
Venice 2021: Her debut as a writer-director (adapting Elena Ferrante’s novel) is a masterpiece of mood and subtlety
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‘Mosquito State’ Film Review: Wall Street Needs Some Insecticide in Creepy Drama
Filip Jan Rymsza’s film about a stock analyst who has an unhealthy fascination with mosquitoes will get under your skin, that’s for sure
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‘Ema’ Film Review: Pablo Larraín’s Latest Dances to Its Own Rhythms
The “Jackie” director boldly uses music video aesthetics in setting a character study to a reggaeton beat
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‘The Perfect Candidate’ Film Review: A Saudi Woman Finds Her Voice in Piercing Political Tale
Venice 2019: A run for local office empowers a young doctor in Haifaa Al Mansour’s feminist tale
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‘La Llorona’ Film Review: Jayro Bustamante Examines Real-Life Historical Horror in Impressive Third Feature
The title may conjure up the supernatural, but this shrewd film contemplates the actual genocide perpetrated against Guatemala’s indigenous population
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‘Sundown’ Film Review: Tim Roth Is an Enigma in Riveting and Banal Mexican Drama
Director Michel Franco lets his story unfold incrementally and mysteriously
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‘One Night in Miami’ Film Review: Regina King Goes the Distance in Impressive Feature Directorial Debut
Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke spend a memorable evening together in Kemp Powers’ adaptation of his stage play
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‘City Hall’ Film Review: Frederick Wiseman Celebrates the Power of Civic Engagement
Boston mayor Marty Walsh becomes a constant figure in this examination of the good that government can potentially do with community involvement
