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Venice Two

Laughing matter: Justin Chang joins our second dispatch from Venice to weigh in on Joker, American Skin, and The Laundromat

In our second dispatch from the Venice Film Festival, FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Justin Chang, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, to discuss some much-anticipated titles, including Todd Phillips’ Joker, Nate Parker’s American Skin, and Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat. Plus: our new Which Movie quiz, in which critics try to find some order in the chaos of festival-viewing.

This story is part of the September-October 2019 issue of Film Comment.

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