Field reports: films like Cover-Up, Landmarks, and The Voice of Hind Rajab pierced through the festival’s illusive bubble with lightning bolts of reality
Rock of ages: critics Savina Petkova and Jordan Mintzer join to discuss Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine, Lucrecia Martel's Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks), and more
Built to last: critics Joseph Fahim and Öykü Sofuoğlu join to discuss festival premieres including Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, Jihan K’s My Father and Qaddafi, and more
Crashing out: critics Katie McCabe and Tim Grierson join to discuss festival premieres including Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, and more
Another green world: this year’s edition was refocused on ambitious, idiosyncratic, and auteur-driven films like Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT, and Bertand Bonello’s The Beast
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
