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‘Bravo Bene!’ review: Sicily’s Franco Maresco puts himself at the centre of his meta-mockumentary
Surreal Venice Competition title is a layered satire of the director’s own inability to make a film.
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‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’ review: Affectionate documentary profiles the Hollywood legend and Hitchcock star
Director Alexandre O’ Philippe joins Novak for a look back at her career, and her most famous role
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‘100 Nights Of Hero’ review: Maika Monroe and Emma Corrin star in Julia Jackman’s feminist fable
Jackman’s Venice Critics’ Week closer also stars Nicholas Galitzine, Felicity Jones and Charlie XCX
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‘The Choral’ review: Ralph Fiennes is a provincial choir master in gentle wartime drama
Nicholas Hytner directs and Alan Bennett scripts this Toronto title which is set in Yorkshire during the First World War
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‘Hamlet’ review: A powerful Riz Ahmed fuels unfussy Shakespeare adaptation set in modern London
Morfydd Clark and Joe Alwyn also star in Aneil Karia’s reimagining of the classic play
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‘John Candy: I Like Me’ review: Colin Hanks doc pays warm tribute to Canadian comedy legend
Toronto’s opening film features a host of luminaries including Tom Hanks, Bill Murray and Catherine O’Hara
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‘Saipan’ review: Steve Coogan and Eanna Hardwicke are a dream team in real-life Irish football drama
Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn explore the 2002 clash between Irish footballer Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy
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‘Elisa’ review: Italian prison drama sees a convict with amnesia struggle to recall her crime
Leonardo Di Costanzo’s muted Venice Competiton title stars Barbara Ronchi and Roschdy Zem
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‘The Cut’ review: Orlando Bloom gives a knock-out performance in otherwise bland boxing drama
John Turturro and Catriona Balfe also get in the ring for director Sean Ellis
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‘My Father And Qaddafi’ review: Libyan filmmaker Jihan explores the 1993 abduction of her politician father
Moving documentary looks at what happened to Mansur Rashid Kikhia, an opponent of Colonel Qaddafi’s brutal regime
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‘Girl’ review: Actress Shu Qi’s 1980s-set directorial debut explores childhood trauma
The Taiwanese star also writes this bleakly beautiful but muddled drama which plays in Venice Competition
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‘Waking Hours’ review: Revealing Italian documentary follows Afghan people smugglers in Serbia
Uncompromising Venice Critics Week title will reward patient viewers
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‘A Loose End’ review: Daniel Hendler’s cop-on-the-run comedy is a deadpan delight
The Uruguayan director’s third film stars Sergio Prina as an Argentinian policeman forced to flee over the border
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‘Barrio Triste’ review: Colombian-American photographer Stillz sets his debut in 1980s Medellin
Harmony Korine produces the unfocused feature about disaffected kids, which premieres in Venice Horizons
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‘In The Hand Of Dante’ review: Oscar Isaac takes a dual role in Julian Schnabel’s offbeat biopic
Gerard Butler, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa also star in Schnabel’s sprawling look at the Italian poet
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‘Duse’ review: Italian auteur Pietro Marcello’s ambitious biopic of actress Eleonora Duse
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Noémie Merlant star in Marcello’s Venice Competition title
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‘Silent Rebellion’ review: A young woman learns to find her voice in 1940s rural Switzerland
Lila Gueneau stars in Marie-Elsa Sgualdo’s accomplished debut which plays out in the aftermath of rape
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‘Human Resource’ review: A pregnant worker navigates a hostile world in Thai drama
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Venice Horizons title features an enigmatic central performance from Prapamonton Eiamchan
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‘Notes Of A True Criminal’ review: Alexander Rodnyansky explores Ukraine’s plight, past and present
Co-directing with Andriy Alferov, the Ukrainian filmmaker presents a deeply personal documentary
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‘The Voice Of Hind Rajab’ review: Kaouther ben Hania revisits 2024 death of a six-year-old in Gaza
Wrenching Venice competition title blends documentary and drama, and uses real-life emergency services recordings