Wild Asparagus (short film) ★★½
At a little under half an hour’s runtime, Avi Mograbi‘s documentarist meditation carries the weight of a historic chronicle ofContinue Reading
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They’re Here (short film) ★★★★
“The reality is a nightmare,” Laura Poitras said in an interview about her spectral short film, premiering out of competitionContinue Reading
Resident Evil ★★★½
Bryan (Austin Abrams) is an ordinary young man. He is finishing up his latest job, the delivery of an organContinue Reading
The Good Lawyer ★
Despite the lack of intentional humour in Tristan Séguéla‘s overwrought courtroom affair, its title almost seems like an in-joke. “BadContinue Reading
Man in Water ★½
Class differences and careerism are not only narratively at the core of Gael García Bernal‘s diffuse directorial debut, which revealsContinue Reading
Be Brave (documentary) ½
This story the audience was about to see really happened, claims a text at the beginning of Francesco Carrozzini’s promotionalContinue Reading
The Cat Wakes Up and Yawns; Then Love ★½
A certain kind of eclectic ennui seems ingrained in Federico Francioni and Samuele Sestieri‘s meandering montage of its prototypical protagonist’sContinue Reading
Scherzetto ★★½
There comes a moment in Mario Martone‘s curious mélange of comedy and creepiness, premiering out of competition at the 83rdContinue Reading
Jupiter ★½
A year ago, Kathryn Bigelow entered the Venice competition with her apocalyptic atomic strike thriller A House of Dynamite; aContinue Reading
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother ★★★½
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is a story of juxtapositions. Drama and action. Pensive and over-the-top. Sacred and profane.Continue Reading
