Dir: Alexandre Smia | France, Political thriller 2026 The Button Nobody Wants to Press Alexandre Smia’s Jupiter imprisons us in the most terrifying room in France: the subterranean command centre beneath the...

Dir: Edoardo Gabbriellini | Italy Drama 2026 There are crimes so senseless that trying to explain them can seem almost indecent. Edoardo Gabbriellini’s The City of the Living, freely inspired by...

Dir: Francesco Clerici, Mattia Colombo | Italy 2026 There is an intriguing paradox at the heart of Anatomy of a Portrait: how do you make a life visible when almost nothing...

Dir: Gianni Amelio | Italy Drama 2026 Gianni Amelio’s Painless follows Davide, a thirty-something second-hand bookseller in Rome, living a small, self-contained life among other people’s books. His routine is upended...

Dir: Robert Greene | US 2026 Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar follows Ryan “Holli-wood” Holliger, a charismatic Missouri father of six children by five different women, as he attempts to make...

Dir: Alina Marazzi | Italy/Germany | 118’ | Orizzonti, Venice 2026 Alina Marazzi’s The Girl with the Leica turns the final day of Gerda Taro’s life into a haunting meditation on...

Dir: Danny Boyle | UK Political satire 2026 — Venice Film Festival review: the birth of the tabloid beast There are films that tell us about history, and there are films that...

The 83rd Venice International Film Festival comes at a pivotal moment in world cinema. Hollywood is still navigating a period of contraction, as we experienced at this year's Cannes Film...

Dir: Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark/Sweden 2025) Reviewed by Ian Long Should we alter ourselves to fit the expectations of others, ormake them change to suit our quirks – no matter how extreme?...