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All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic
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Reviews‘Obhut’ review: A sibling relationship is tested in sensitive German debut
Veronika Hafner confidently handles delicate themes in her Munich-set family drama
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Reviews‘Desert Warrior’ review: Visually stunning Saudi Arabian epic lacks an emotional core
Antony Mackie and Sir Ben Kingsley star in Rupert Wyatt’s 7th century Arabian drama
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Reviews‘Unidentified’ review: Haifaa Al Mansour’s Saudi thriller sees a grieving woman turn detective
The Saudi Arabian director reteams with star Mila Alzahrani, who plays a true-crime enthusiast investigating a murder
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Reviews‘Leave The Cat Alone’ review: Enigmatic Japanese debut depicts a marriage blown off course
Shigaya Daisuke’s Tokyo-set relationship drama bows in Busan Competition
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CommentComment: Venice jury springs surprises as festival grapples with global events
‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ was widely liked, but not a picture that figured prominently in speculative Golden Lion conversation.
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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
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Reviews‘Kabul, Between Prayers’ review: Engrossing documentary follows a lost generation of Afghan men
Dutch-Afghan film-maker Aboozar Amini’s follow-up to ’Kabul, City In The Wind’ focuses on three radicalised brothers
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Reviews‘Divine Comedy’ review: Ali Asgari skewers Iranian cultural restrictions in witty satire
Charming performances carry Asgari’s fifth feature about a fictional director attempting to screen his latest film in Tehran
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Reviews‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ review: Amanda Seyfried is 18th-century preacher in audacious musical
Mona Fastvold and co-writer Brady Corbet’s uneven biopic of the eponymous Shaker founder bows in Venice Competition
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Reviews‘Motor City’ review: Seventies Detroit revenge thriller proves more style than substance
Shailene Woodley stars in Potsy Ponciroli’s schlocky, dialogue-light Venice Spotlight title
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Reviews‘Late Fame’ review: Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe shine in pleasing New York Story
The second feature from Kent Jones bows in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Broken English’ review: Marianne Faithfull’s life explored in inventive documentary with starry cast
Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth have assembled collaborators including Tilda Swinton and George MacKay
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Reviews‘No Other Choice’ review: Park Chan-wook’s economic satire is a darkly comic treat
The director’s Venice Competition title stars Lee Byung-hun as a family man who turns to desperate measures
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Reviews‘Hijra’ review: Family bonds are tested when a teenage girl vanishes in accomplished Saudi drama
Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen’s story centres on a grandmother and granddaughter in search of their missing relative
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Reviews‘The Tale Of Silyan’ review: Tamara Kotevska follows ‘Honeyland’ with portrait of Macedonian farmer
Lyrical hybrid documentary charts the highs and lows of rural life in modern Macedonia
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Reviews‘Blue Film’ review: UK rising star Kieron Moore impresses in provocative, uneven US debut
Elliot Tuttle’s Los Angeles-based camboy drama bows in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Hellcat’ review: Claustrophobic US horror sees woman trapped in Airstream trailer
Editor-turned-director Brock Bodell’s debut features a compelling performance from Dakota Gorman