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[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...

[Venice Review] Beasts of No Nation

If there were any question marks still floating over Cary Fukunaga’s credentials, his latest film, Beasts of No Nation, should flick them aside with ease. Based...

[Venice Review] Everest

Curtain raisers seldom come more bombastic than the last two films to open the Venice Film Festival, Alfonso CuarĂ³n’s Gravity in 2013, and Alejandro GonzĂ¡lez Iñ...

[Review] When Animals Dream

Horror – primarily quality horror - has undergone major changes over the past decade in its approach to depicting the age-old conflict of man versus the Other. ...

[Review] The Second Mother

The first thing to announce itself in The Second Mother is an insistence on never losing sight of Val (Regina Casé), the maid, chef, and occasional surrogate pa...