Venice

Orchestral manoeuvres: some of the most interesting films at Venice this year—including TÁR, Saint Omer, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed—featured women of extraordinary ability and ego

Speed kills: there was much to recommend from the under-the-radar sections this year, including Shen Kong, El gran movimiento, and more

Courtroom drama: Roman Polanski's latest film, a Venice world premiere, surehandedly recounts the Dreyfus Affair and its story of a French army captain's anti-Semitic persecution

Before the end: the Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul broaches the underworld and upper crust of prewar Budapest in Sunset, screening February 6 in Film Comment Selects

Group therapy: the director of Charlie Says, in theaters now, delves into the manipulative world of Manson from the perspective of his female followers

Vox populi: Peterloo shows the perilous struggle behind an 1819 democratic protest for voting rights in an era of crushing inequality

Old hands: the usual distractions of the hype industry on the Lido fortunately can't obscure true grit

Family portrait: Alfonso Cuarón re-creates the past on a grand yet intimate scale through the eyes of a Mexico City housekeeper

Island of cinema: your handy preview of the movies in the festival's 75th edition

Young lions: the International Critics’ Week section offered stronger work than what was in competition