All articles by Tim Grierson, Senior US critic
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Reviews‘The Uprising’ review: A stirring Andrew Garfield is unable to energise Paul Greengrass’s listless period drama
The writer/director’s take on England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt also stars Tom Hollander, Jamie Bell and Thomasin McKenzie
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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‘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‘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‘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‘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
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Reviews‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger’ review: Sentimental doc about UK band’s reunion plays best when it focuses on the music
Directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace chart Oasis’s 2025 tour in Venice out of competition title
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Reviews‘The Idiot(s)’ review: Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn spar in an audacious portrait of the Dostoevskys
An irreverent, eccentric take on the turbulent marriage behind one of literature’s great names
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Reviews‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile’ review: Julia Loktev’s portrait of Russian journalists in exile deepens in its second chapter
The follow-up to 2024’s ’Last Air In Moscow’ proves every bit as compelling, if more intimate
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Reviews‘Too Much Sugar’ review: Robert Greene delivers a clear-eyed portrait of family dysfunction and filmmaking as therapy
The Procession director’s latest is a moving exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in small-town Missouri
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Reviews‘Bucking Fastard’ review: Kate and Rooney Mara are perfectly in sync in Werner Herzog’s strange tale of sisterly devotion
The director’s absurdist drama premieres in Venice competition
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Reviews‘Ink' review: Jack O’Connell is magnetic as ‘The Sun’ tabloid editor Larry Lamb in Danny Boyle’s feverish Venice opener
Guy Pearce and Claire Foy also star in this seductive, high-energy portrait of ambition and media disruption
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Reviews‘The Dog Stars’ review: Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley navigate the apocalypse in muted, tender Ridley Scott drama
Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce also star in the director’s near-future set adaptation of the novel by Peter Heller
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Reviews‘Mutiny’ review: Jason Statham finds himself all at sea in uninspired cargo ship thriller
Jean-Francois Richet’s muscular feature fails to make the most of its action star
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Reviews‘Capsized’ review: Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe find themselves in troubled waters in modest, bittersweet US debut
Lindsey Ryan’s Edinburgh competition premiere follows an American family battling financial hardship
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Reviews‘The Rivals Of Amziah King’ review: Matthew McConaughey serves up his trademark Southern charm in unpredictable beekeeping thriller
Andrew Patterson’s tonally uneven film features a strong performance from Indigenous newcomer Angelina LookingGlass
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Reviews‘The Wrong Girls’ review: Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat have kooky chemistry in affable stoner comedy
Neon releases Dylan Meyer’s irreverent debut in US cinemas on August 14
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Reviews‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ review: Looney Tunes adaptation is, like its wiley protagonist, more miss than hit
Dave Green’s blend of live-action and animation stars John Cena, Will Forte and a host of Looney Tunes characters
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Reviews‘One Night Only’ review: Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro spark in otherwise limp romantic comedy
Will Gluck’s follow-up to ‘Anyone But You’ opens in the US on August 7 and the UK on August 28
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Reviews‘Tony’ review: Dominic Sessa impresses as young chef Anthony Bourdain
Antonio Banderas and Emilia Jones also star in the feature, which opens in the US on August 7