No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook: ‘That is the challenge of cinema – how to communicate inner life without explaining it’
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Venice International Film Festival
The 10 worst films of 2025: ‘Cap’, you say? Crap, more like
We gave you the best films of the year, now here are the worst
The 50 best films of 2025 – a full list in reverse order
There were hopeful signs that Hollywood could make money out of good films that did not spring from established franchises
The 50 best films of 2025: No 50 to No 31
Our list again leans strongly on the cultural cinema that emerged from big festivals such as Cannes and Venice
Cate Blanchett film set in Dublin wins Golden Lion at Venice International Film Festival 2025
Father Mother Sister Brother, with Cate Blanchett and Charlotte Rampling, takes one of cinema’s most prestigious awards
At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie
Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent
First Look: A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s rattling nuclear potboiler, feels agonisingly real
Venice International Film Festival 2025: Oscarologists are already alive to the Academy Award possibilities for the director’s first film for eight years
First Look: Amanda Seyfried is electrifying in Mona Fastvold’s masterly Testament of Ann Lee
The feature has premiered at Venice International Film Festival without a distributor. That deserves to be rectified
First Look: Julia Roberts does her best, but After the Hunt feels like a pointless provocation
Venice International Film Festival 2025: Luca Guadagnino’s film is a dull retread of the PC-gone-mad arguments of the past quarter-century
The Movie Quiz: Which Irishman has not won an acting prize at Venice?
Test your knowledge on all thing Venice International Film Festival with these 10 questions
Donald Clarke: Why it matters who wins what at the Venice International Film Festival
Donald Clarke: Why it matters who wins what at the Venice International Film Festival
First Look: Watch out for Eve Hewson in George Clooney’s cameo-stuffed new satire on stardom
Venice International Film Festival 2025: With Jay Kelly, a satire on stardom, Noah Baumbach just about gets back on track
The ultimate in movie-star glamour: Emma Stone, Julia Roberts and George Clooney get their speedboats ready
Venice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launch
April director Dea Kulumbegashvili: ‘The woman was still alive, but they already knew they would not be able to save her’
The film-maker was taken aback by an incident at a hospital as she prepared to make her second feature. Everyday life in Georgia can be horrible, she says
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