Venice International Film Festival 2025: Luca Guadagnino’s film is a dull retread of the PC-gone-mad arguments of the past quarter-century

Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Danny Power and Diarmuid Noyes feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 29th, 2025

Named for a Sonic Youth song, Urska Djukic’s film captures the tension between virginal purity and messy adolescence

The Belgian film-makers’ 13th feature deftly weaves together the lives of five young women

Eva Victor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 23rd, 2025

Odd as it might sound, Victor’s note-perfect script, drawn from personal experience of sexual assault, is a trauma comedy

This gentle exploration of masculinity, marriage and sexual orientation unfolds mostly through conversations between two chimney sweeps

Ari Aster’s political satire is full of sound and fury, signifying something. If only we knew what that was

Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson and Vanessa Kirby star in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 15th, 2025

Materialists, Celine Song’s new romcom, is inspired by the film-maker’s time working for an elite New York matchmaking agency

Willy Vlautin adaptation soon abandons its promising real-world dilemma as it swerves into unconvincing low-life criminality

In the second instalment of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo trilogy, changing a catheter proves just as intimate as spontaneous sex

Freakier Friday, which reunites the Oscar-winner with Lindsay Lohan, is good clean fun. But its themes mean a lot to an actor who has had her share of personal trials

A quartet of movies released in the week of August 8th, 2025

The tragic cycle is composed of the same beats that defined such superior films as The Godfather and Animal Kingdom