Report From Venice
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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
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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