Venice 2025
1-2 Special Takes ‘Rose of Nevada’ for North America (Exclusive)
Mark Jenkin's Cornish time-travel drama, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner, premiered in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival.
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‘Calle Málaga’ Review: A Luminous Carmen Maura Brings Warmth, Magnetism and Indomitable Pluck to Touching Moroccan Domestic Drama
The country’s submission for best international feature consideration at the 2026 Oscars is a story of aging without surrender, set in the Spanish-speaking community of Tangier.
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‘Motor City’ Review: Alan Ritchson and Shailene Woodley Wade Through Cliché in Overstretched Stylistic Exercise
Ben Foster and Pablo Schreiber also star in Potsy Ponciroli’s violent crime thriller set in 1977 Detroit, which played at both the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.
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Best of the Fall Fests: THR’s Critics Picks
A cathartic tearjerker about Shakespeare’s family, Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear threat thriller and a wrenching Gaza docudrama are among THR reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Ghost Elephants’ Review: Werner Herzog Remains Our Most Intrepid Interdimensional Explorer in Beguilingly Spiritual Nature Doc
The German director follows conservationist Steve Boyes and expert trackers into the Angolan highlands in search of a possibly mythical herd of XL pachyderms.
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Édgar Ramírez on Immigrants, Grief and Producing His First Feature Film: “I Become Like a Rabid Dog”
The veteran star talks to THR about producing ’It Would Be Night in Caracas,’ the turmoil in Venezuela and how filming Drake Doremus’ new movie with Emilia Clarke helped him heal from his father’s death.
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Ben Foster on Why He Moved to Nashville From L.A.
“Nashville is just a different way. I’m enjoying it,” the actor tells THR during a recent interview at the Venice Film Festival where he premiered his newest film, the dialogue-free action thriller ‘Motor City.’
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Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas Talk Beatles, Abba and Brotherhood in Anders Thomas Jensen’s ‘The Last Viking’
The two play very different brothers dealing with identity politics and buried trauma in the dark comedy, their sixth collaboration with the Danish director of 'Riders of Justice' and 'Men & Chicken.'
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‘Dog 51’ Review: Adèle Exarchopoulos in a Slick French Dystopian Thriller That’s Easy to Watch, and Even Easier to Forget
Gilles Lellouche co-stars in Cédric Jimenez's Venice Film Festival closer, set in a Paris of the near future.
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‘The Sun Rises on Us All’ Review: Two Terrific Actors Carry a Soul-Crushing Chinese Drama That Keeps Striking the Same Note
'People Mountain People Sea' director Cai Shangjun returns to competition in Venice with a story about two former lovers trying to move on from their dark past.
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Venice Film Festival Awards: Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Wins Golden Lion
The 82nd edition of the world's oldest film festival honored the Palestine-set drama 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' and American director Benny Safdie with Silver Lions, while new work from George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Guillermo del Toro, Emma Stone and Park Chan-wook went home empty-handed.
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‘On the Road’ Review: An Extremely Tough, Incredibly Tender Story of Two Men Falling in Love on Mexico’s Deadly Highways
Diego Luna is among the producers of writer-director David Pablos' new feature, about the evolving relationship between a truck driver and a sex worker.
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