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“The eloquent profanity/it rolls right off my tongue,” Lowell George sang on an early Little Feat tune. That humblebrag could be repeated by just about any one of the characters created by Martin McDonagh, the writer/director...

Every year that I’ve been to the Venice Film Festival—this is my third—I’ve had the privilege of participating in the U.S. Critic’s panel for the Biennale College, a filmmaking program now in its fifth year at...

The following Table of Contents includes our updating coverage of the 2017 Venice Film Festival, as written by Glenn Kenny.Venice Film Festival 2017: “Our Souls at Night,” “Brawl in Cell Block 99,” “Zama”Venice Film Festival 2017: “Suburbicon,”...

While a party of liberals weeps openly at the election results of November 8th, 2016, another young man looks up at his television and says, “The revolution has begun.” He could be talking about a creative...

On my fourth day at the Venice festival, a theme suggests itself: Twilight of the Gods. “Our Souls at Night” (reviewed here) sees latter-day screen icons Robert Redford and Jane Fonda playing characters facing loneliness and...

“Suburbicon,” the new movie directed by George Clooney, is, as many of you who follow the inner workings of American cinema already know, based on an old script by Joel and Ethan Coen. The movie has...

To paraphrase Bill Murray’s famous line from “Tootsie,” the long-delayed “Tulip Fever” is one nutty 17th century melodrama. It offers curious viewers a very horny, “Titanic”-esque forbidden romance, a subplot involving someone pretending to be pregnant...

This is my third time at the Venice Film Festival and I still haven’t gotten the hang of picking the right arrival time, which is my probably insufficient explanation for not having seen the much buzzed-about...

The latest edition of Scout Tafoya’s “The Unloved” video essay series focuses on Ron Shelton’s “Dark Blue,” as based on a story by James Ellroy and a script by David Ayer. Receiving mixed reviews on its...

The Telluride Film Festival is like an especially delicious box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get —passes sell out year after year, many months before the program is announced, or even put...