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Best movies from the 2026 Venice Film Festival, including Possible Love and Musk (opens the original)
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Indie dramas and documentaries, rather than big Hollywood productions, took the spotlight at this year’s festival. Here are 10 of the best Labour issues emerged as a prominent theme, while the festival looked controversially to the future with the selection of Be Brave, a documentary about Diesel founder Renzo Rosso that was partly completed using artificial intelligence. However, perhaps the biggest shock was the sight of a reunited Liam and Noel Gallagher walking arm-in-arm down the red carpet
Review | Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors: Lav Diaz’s gruelling colonial epic (opens the original)
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Director Lav Diaz’s latest film explores colonial terror, faith and resistance in a perilous 17th century jungle in the Philippines The premise here loosely evokes Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (1953), replacing the volatile nitroglycerine of that film with massive blocks of limestone. The year is 1617, a period when churches were being erected across the Philippines, claiming countless indigenous lives as a result. For the past 15 years, a small place of worship has been under const
Review | A Bit of Light: Iranian drama about Tehran doctor strikes melancholic chord (opens the original)
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Ali Asgari’s Tehran-set drama about an aggrieved doctor who decides to end it all as war looms is well acted but never fully bursts into life Set against the backdrop of recent protests and looming war, Ali Asgari’s on-the-nose drama illuminates the grim reality of everyday life in modern Iran. At times, Asgari flirts with black comedy. “War is a very strange thing; it gives you crazy ideas,” one character remarks, adding that he would not mind a missile striking his old house if it meant saving
Review | Practical Magic 2: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman reunite for dull sequel (opens the original)
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Joey King, Maisie Williams and Lee Pace also feature in this boring follow-up that falls short of the spellbinding 1998 original Whether Practical Magic 2 was genuinely conjured into existence by fan demand – as its PR campaign claims – or is simply the result of Hollywood scraping the intellectual-property barrel and mining anything with a vague following, this long-delayed sequel to 1998’s Practical Magic is a disappointment. Ultimately, this reunion with the magically inclined Owens family fr
Review | Look Back: Hirokazu Koreeda explores childhood manga dreams (opens the original)
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A deep, intense friendship between two schoolgirls is explored in Hirokazu Koreeda’s adaptation of a manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto The film is full of surprises and beautifully rendered, much like the manga at the heart of the story. At first, she is a little upset when she overhears someone say that her artwork looks “kind of average” next to Kyomoto’s. But whatever jealousy she feels washes away when she meets the shy Kyomoto, who later explains she “stopped going to school” because she got “scare
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