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Reviews‘Union Town’ review: Fifty years after ‘Harlan County, USA’, Barbara Kopple returns to the frontline of America’s labour struggle
The veteran documentarian’s absorbing portrait of the gig economy is the third in her ‘labour rights’ trilogy
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Reviews‘Company’ review: Casey Affleck directs, co-writes and stars in atmospheric but convoluted slice of American Gothic
Nick Nolte, Scott McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and Emily Alyn Lind also star in Affleck’s twisting Venice competititon premiere
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Reviews‘Bunker’ review: Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz navigate a marriage under siege in Florian Zeller’s elegant drama
Stephen Graham also stars in Zeller’s London-set Venice competition title
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Reviews‘Musk’ review: Alex Gibney presents a gripping if glossy study of controversial billionaire Elon Musk
Gibney’s exhaustive documentary plays Venice ahead of berths in Toronto and London
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Reviews‘A Common Story’ review: Alba Rohrwacher is extraordinary in distinctive, daring Italian empty nest drama
Anna Foglietta’s accomplished debut premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra’ review: Formally bold, compassionate drama is inspired by a real-life Greek tragedy
The 2008 police killing of a teenager in Athens informs Jacqueline Lentzou’s audacious Venice Horizons title
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Reviews‘The Burning Giants’ review: Shape-shifting Thai displacement drama blurs myth and reality
’Manta Ray’ director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng turns his attention to marginalised S’gaw community in ambitious third feature
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Reviews‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman’ review: Tense, blunt-edged Kurdish war thriller follows a female sniper in Iraq
Halkawt Mustafa’s female-led action drama brings glossy genre mechanics to a story of Kurdish resistance
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Reviews‘Conversation With The Sea’ review: Kamel El Basha anchors Muayad Alayan’s uneven Palestinian drama
A Jerusalem-set mystery turns one man’s private reckoning into a pointed portrait of Palestinian life in Israel
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Reviews‘The Spiral’ review: Paolo Strippoli’s dark Italian family fable promises more than it delivers
Star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi impresses in this stylish but increasingly repetitive Faustian horror
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Reviews‘Look Back’ review: Hirokazu Koreeda sketches a tender but overly sentimental portrait of young friendship
The Japanese auteur’s live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed manga debuts in Venice Competition
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Reviews‘Boatbuilders’ review: Luke Lorentzen’s Maine-set boatyard documentary is a finely crafted delight
The ‘Midnight Family’ director slows the pace for this beautifully observed portrait of craftsmanship and community
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Reviews‘Hombre Al Agua’ review: Gael Garcia Bernal’s class satire proves disjointed and underpowered
Garcia Bernal directs, co-writes and stars in this Venice Spotlight premiere
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Reviews‘Woman Unknown’ review: May el-Toukhy’s Venice competition title is formal yet ferocious post-war Danish drama
Mathilde Arcel puts in a terrific lead performance in the director’s follow-up to Long Story Short and Queen Of Hearts
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Reviews‘The Echo Chamber’ review: Andrea Pallaoro turns Bernardo Bertolucci’s final script into precise, somewhat odd study of love and dependency
Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon star in London-set Venice competition title
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Reviews‘Holy Wood Dust’ review: Victor Kossakovsky’s study of trees lacks the revelatory magic of his best works
The Russian documentarist’s follow-up to Trillion and Architecton premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘Possible Love’ review: Lee Chang-dong explores class, desire and exploitation in powerful Venice competition return
The ‘Burning’ director reunites with star Sul Kyung-gu for an enigmatic drama about two married couples divided by wealth
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Reviews‘The Difficult Bride’ review: A fairytale Bangladeshi wedding turns into a nightmare in sharp feminist body horror
Rubaiyat Hossain’s latest work becomes the first Bangladeshi film to play in Venice
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Reviews‘Citizen Osama’ review: A Palestinian journalist balances war reportage with family life in harrowing Gaza doc
Ahmed Hassouna’s Venice out of competition title has been selected as Palestine’s official Oscar submission
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Reviews‘Father Joe’ review: Kiefer Sutherland takes holy orders in Luc Besson’s violent action romp
Al Pacino adds marquee heft to Barthélémy Grossmann’s knowingly trashy action thriller