Report From Venice
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‘Marriage Story’ Film Review: Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver Break Apart in Noah Baumbach’s Devastating Drama
The writer-director’s streak of humane, heartbreaking films continues with this powerful and poignant tale
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‘The King’ Film Review: Timothée Chalamet Fights for the Crown, On and Off the Battlefield
David Michôd (“War Machine”) gives us a Henry V who plays fast and loose with both history and Shakespeare
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‘The Laundromat’ Film Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers Tale Is a Messy Exposé
Not even Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas and a miscast Gary Oldman can elevate this would-be “Big Short”
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‘Ad Astra’ Film Review: Brad Pitt Journeys to the Edge of Space and the Depths of His Character’s Soul
Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways
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‘Mosul’ Film Review: Russo Brothers Produce an Action-Packed Tale of Fighting ISIS
Venice 2019: Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan makes his directorial debut about local Iraqi heroes out for vengeance
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‘Babyteeth’ Film Review: Australian Doomed-Teen Dramedy Hides Its Tougher Questions Behind Frills and Filigree
Director Shannon Murphy’s got style to burn, but an excess of it undercuts her characters and their dilemmas
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‘Wasp Network’ Film Review: Penélope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez Spy for Castro in Talky Thriller
Venice 2019: Olivier Assayas’ docudrama shortchanges the characters in favor of excessive exposition
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‘American Skin’ Film Review: Nate Parker’s Disappointing Sophomore Effort Mixes Mockumentary and Courtroom Drama
Venice 2019: Parker tackles the issue of police shootings, but the results are clunky and heavy-handed
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‘Giants Being Lonely’ Film Review: Teen Baseballers Come of Age in the Shadow of Their Parents’ Errors
Venice 2019: Grear Patterson’s striking debut plays like a Terrence Malick memory piece without the distance of nostalgia
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‘An Officer and a Spy’ Review: Roman Polanski Is No Emile Zola in This Listless Retelling of the Dreyfus Affair
Venice 2019: Any controversy over the director’s choice of subject is dissipated by the tepid results
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‘The Truth’ Film Review: Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche Grapple With Honesty and Each Other
Venice 2019: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first non-Japanese film captures a mother-daughter relationship fraught with resentments
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Venice 2019 Line-Up Reminds Us Gender Equality Has a Long Way to Go (Commentary)
Women go underrepresented in competition at a festival that found room for Roman Polanski and Nate Parker
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Nate Parker’s ‘American Skin’ Added to Venice Film Festival Slate
The L.A.-set drama is Parker’s first feature since 2016’s “The Birth of a Nation”
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Venice Festival Juror Jennifer Kent Disappointed by Lack of Female Directors in Competition This Year
“I hoped there would be more,” the Australian director of “The Nightingale” says
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Venice Film Festival Lineup Sparks Backlash: Only 2 Female Directors but New Roman Polanski Film
“1 rapist. 2 women directors in competition #Venezia76. What else am I missing?” Women and Hollywood’s Melissa Silverstein tweets
