Venice Film Festival - The Film Verdict

The Featherweight

Posted by Kevin Jagernauth | Sep 3, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

‘The Featherweight’ is an inventive faux doc portrait of boxing great Willie Pep who faces his greatest fight yet: his own legacy.

The Palace

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 2, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

The Palace, Roman Polanski’s appallingly bland black comedy about the filthy rich, is set in a fancy Swiss hotel on New Year’s Eve 1999, and not the least bit funny.

Maestro

Posted by Alonso Duralde | Sep 2, 2023 | VENICE 2023, Spotlight |

Bradley Cooper’s ambitious sophomore directorial effort, about Leonard Bernstein’s married life, soars and sweeps in some passages while falling flat in others.

Stolen

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 1, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

The rich/poor divide in India is staggeringly vivid in Karan Tejpal’s first feature ‘Stolen’, the desperate search for a stolen baby that is powered by exciting chases and the constant threat of violence.

Poor Things

Posted by Alonso Duralde | Sep 1, 2023 | VENICE 2023, Spotlight |

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone reteam for an audacious comic odyssey that defies genre and convention.

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The Featherweight

The Palace

Maestro

Stolen

Poor Things