Happyend Review: Neo Sora Poignantly Explores our Responses to an Impending Future

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Happyend opens in theaters on September 12. “Something big is about to chang...

Venice Review: Marc by Sofia is an Agreeable Documentary Portrait Lacking Intimacy

Sofia Coppola, Marc Jacobs, and 30 years of friendship between them––this triad was promising enough for A24 to jump on the project and for the Venice Film Fes...

Venice Review: The Last Viking is an Ode to Oddballs, Mads Mikkelsen, and the Beatles

“The world is full of people,” states the anonymous narrator of Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Last Viking as an opening, hand-drawn animation tells a rather distu...

Venice Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection in Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend

Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is best known for her 2017 Golden Bear-winning film On Body and Soul, where an unlikely pair of characters met in a dream and,...

Venice Review: Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante Crafts a Frenzied, Flimsy Adventure for Oscar Isaac and Martin Scorsese

“There is no reason why a kid from a family of gangsters couldn’t be the reincarnation of Dante Alighieri,” reads Julian Schnabel’s director’s statement on his...

Venice Review: The Wizard of Kremlin Proves an Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian 

In April 2022, two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italian author and political writer Giuliano da Empoli published a fictionalized account of Vladi...

Motel Destino Review: Noirish Fever Dream Sparkles with Sweat and Lust

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Motel Destino opens in theaters on August 29. Simply put, Brazilian motels a...

The Balconettes Review: Noémie Merlant’s Self-Assured Take on Comedy-Horror

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The Balconettes opens in theaters on August 22. The chic balconies of Ma...

Harvest Review: Athina Rachel Tsangari Beautifully Renders the Past Present

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Harvest opens in theaters on August 1 and arrives on MUBI on August 8. An un...

Wild Diamond Review: Debut Feature Shines Bright, But Deprives Hyper-Femininity from Sensual Core

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Wild Diamond opens in theaters on July 11. From her debut feature, French fi...