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‘Battleground’ Review: A Sober but Overly Academic Italian Drama About the Moral Conflicts of World War I Military Doctors
The latest by director Gianni Amelio stars Alessandro Borghi and Gabriel Montesi as physicians with opposing views on their duties to injured soldiers and the battle they're fighting.
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‘Wolfs’ Review: Brad Pitt and George Clooney Reunite for a Cunning Caper That Never Takes Itself Too Seriously — Sometimes to a Fault
Jon Watts ('Spider-Man: Homecoming') wrote and directed this New York-set action comedy, which will roll out on Apple TV+ after premiering in Venice.
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‘Baby Invasion’ Review: Harmony Korine’s Immersive First-Person Shooter Film Is Both Mind-Bending and Mind-Numbing
The 'Spring Breakers' director and his EDGLRD production studio continue to strip away the boundaries between movies and video games in this Venice world premiere.
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‘The Order’ Review: Jude Law Faces Down a Gang of Neo-Nazi Bandits in Justin Kurzel’s Riveting Real-Life Thriller
Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett co-star in a film that tracks the rise and fall of a violent far-right group in 1980s rural Washington.
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‘Cloud’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Action Satire Takes the Concept of Online Reselling to Dangerous New Places
The Japanese genre maestro’s latest feature follows an ambitious merchant who gets in way over his head while trying to make a fortune on the internet.
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‘Three Friends’ Review: It Doesn’t Get More French Than This Well-Made if Clichéd Tale of Love, Marriage and Adultery
Camille Cottin ('Call My Agent') leads an ensemble cast in prolific writer-director Emmanuel Mouret’s latest romantic dramedy, which premiered in competition at Venice.
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‘Diciannove’ Review: An Uncompromising Chronicle of an Italian College Student Trying, and Mostly Failing, to Find His Way
Luca Guadagnino produced this first feature directed by his former assistant Giovanni Tortorici, who worked on 'Bones and All.'
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‘September 5’ Review: Peter Sarsgaard Stars in a Gripping Newsroom Thriller About the 1972 Munich Terrorist Attacks
Tim Fehlbaum’s third feature also stars John Magaro and Ben Chaplin as members of an ABC news crew meant to cover the Olympics but plunged into a major international crisis.
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‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’ Review: A Riveting Account of How Evangelism Became a Major Threat to Brazilian Democracy
The latest documentary by Oscar-nominated director Petra Costa ('The End of Democracy'), premiering out of competition in Venice, was executive produced by Brad Pitt.
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‘Slingshot’ Review: Casey Affleck Stars as an Astronaut Whose Mind Plays Tricks on Him in Serviceable Space Thriller
Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham co-star in director Mikael Håfström’s story of three spacemen on a dangerous mission to the far side of the solar system.
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‘The Killer’ Review: John Woo’s Remake Offers Omar Sy and New Twists, but Lacks the Poetry of His Original
Nathalie Emmanuel also headlines a new version of the Hong Kong filmmaker's groundbreaking hitman flick, which resets the story in Paris.
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Alain Delon, Seductive Star of European Cinema, Dies at 88
Dubbed "the male Brigitte Bardot," the French actor starred in 'The Leopard,' 'Le Samouraï,' 'The Red Circle' and as Tom Ripley in 'Purple Noon.'
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