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[Venice Review] The Childhood of a Leader

The feature debut from young actor turned screenwriter-director Brady Corbet, The Childhood of a Leader is an ambitious choice for a first project -- a period p...

[Venice Review] The Danish Girl

As far as directors go, it doesn’t get much more middle-of-the-road than Tom Hooper. His films tend to feature clear-cut, identifiable conflicts sketched out in...

[Venice Review] Equals

Lobbing the proverbial one up for dissatisfied critics to knock out of the ballpark, Drake Doremus’ Equals is a love story set in a dystopian future where emoti...

[Venice Review] The Wait

Seeing that the film starts in the middle of a memorial service, it doesn’t qualify as a spoiler to reveal that the unseen hero of L’attesa (The Wait) - the sub...

[Venice Review] Francofonia

Who are we without museums? Supposedly a tribute to France’s artistic excellence throughout the centuries, Francofonia quickly reveals itself as an exploration ...

[Venice Review] In Jackson Heights

How amazing it is that a human being one century from now can fire up their wind-powered neuro-image-emitter, put on Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights, and...

[Venice Review] Black Mass

Premiering out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass goes deep inside Boston’s underworld to chronicle the life of real-life gan...

[Venice Review] Spotlight

The latest film from Thomas McCarthy, the actor-turned-director behind The Station Agent and Win Win, focuses on the Pulitzer-winning Spotlight team from the Bo...