Venice #81 - Peacock
The Critic's Week, or Settimana della Critica as the natives say, has always been quite a gamble at the Venice Film Festival. The...
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Jack Salvadori
Sep 82 min
Venice #81 - April
With April , Dea Kulumbegashvili brings to the Lido the biggest surprise of the 2024 Venice Film Festival, shocking and dividing the...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 52 min
Venice #81 - Joker: Folie à Deux
Back in 2019, director Todd Philipps reassured that Joker was always pitched as one movie, not set up to have any sequels, and in his...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 42 min
Venice #81- Queer
Trying to capture an author’s literary style into moving pictures is a challenging task. When that author is no less than William S....
Jack Salvadori
Sep 32 min
Venice #81 - The Room Next Door
After two short films in English, Pedro Almodóvar delivers his first feature not in his native Spanish with The Room Next Door . And he...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 22 min
Venice #81 - The Brutalist
I thought the days when films looked great were gone forever. You know, when they actually looked like films, with that special magical...
Jack Salvadori
Aug 302 min
Venice #81 - Maria
There is no doubt that Chilean director Pablo Larraín is the master of biopics. By developing his own formula, he specialised in...
Jack Salvadori
Aug 302 min
Venice #81 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Disclaimer: in the following review I’ll be careful not to say "Beetlejuice" three times, in the slightest chance he comes back and they...
Jack Salvadori
Jun 296 min
Raiders of the Lost Art
Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato is the cinephile’s ultimate oasis “No, this time I won’t go”. After months of pondering, rationality struck...
Jack Salvadori
May 253 min
Cannes #77 - "Grand Tour" Review
It’s the journey, not the destination. Few films aim to lift the audience to a different dimension. Even fewer actually succeed in such a...
Jack Salvadori
May 232 min
Cannes #77 - "Anora" Review
Sean Baker’s downbeat vision of America is back with his latest film, starring Mikey Madison as a colourful stripper, Anora, chasing her...
Jack Salvadori
May 222 min
Cannes #77 - "The Shrouds" Review
What is Vincent Cassel doing in a David Cronenberg costume? Perhaps The Shrouds is so personal to the cult director that its protagonist,...
Jack Salvadori
May 192 min
Cannes #77 - "Emilia Perez" Review
Emilia Perez is a film like no other. French auteur Jacques Audiard goes crazy, and brings to the screen a pop opera that never loses its...
Jack Salvadori
May 192 min
Cannes #77 - "Kinds of Kindness" Review
After the uber-success of Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos delivers his second film of the year, Kinds of Kindness. In this minor work, the...
Jack Salvadori
May 173 min
Cannes #77 - "Megalopolis" Review
I believed in America. And I believed in New Hollywood, helmed by Francis Ford Coppola. Thus, it particularly saddens me that...
Jack Salvadori
May 162 min
Cannes #77 - "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" Review
George Miller takes us back to his iconic dystopian, post-apocalyptic Australian Wasteland in a reverse journey to discover the origins...
Jack Salvadori
May 152 min
Cannes #77 - "The Second Act" Review
Cannes-cel culture. An unsettling grey and rainy weather anticipated the lukewarm reception of the 76th edition of the most prestigious...
Jack Salvadori
Dec 25, 20238 min
2023 BEST FILMS - Top 10
As the curtain falls on another remarkable year in cinema, it's time to reflect on the filmmaking achievements that lingered on our minds...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 7, 20232 min
Venice #80 - Riūichi Sakamoto | Opus
Play it again, Ryūichi. All it takes is a dark room, silence, followed by the right music, to properly lose ourselves, wandering in our...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 6, 20232 min
Venice #80 - Coup de Chance
All good things must come to an end. Even the best ones - the ones we’re so used to that they end up becoming ordinary elements in our...
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