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Jessica Kiang

Reporter · GB

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Sep 17, 2026
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Aug 27, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · By Jessica Kiang

    Woman Unknown review (opens the original)

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    Reviewed from the 2026 Venice Film Festival The striking seriousness of May el-Toukhy’s Venice Golden Lion winner Woman Unknown is announced from the very first frame. The camera drops in a slow-motion-suicide swoon through the courtyard of a well-appointed apartment block in Copenhagen, the bright square of the sky getting smaller, the darkness gathering. A steady, sparse drumbeat sounds, prefiguring the later sonic motifs of a descending drone or a vocal choir sliding down a glissando. The war

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · By Jessica Kiang

    Woman Unknown review (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone · English

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    Reviewed from the 2026 Venice Film Festival The striking seriousness of May el-Toukhy’s Venice Golden Lion winner Woman Unknown is announced from the very first frame. The camera drops in a slow-motion-suicide swoon through the courtyard of a well-appointed apartment block in Copenhagen, the bright square of the sky getting smaller, the darkness gathering. A steady, sparse drumbeat sounds, prefiguring the later sonic motifs of a descending drone or a vocal choir sliding down a glissando. The war

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · By Jessica Kiang

    Wild Horse Nine review: McDonagh’s indecent agents (opens the original)

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    Reviewed from the 2026 Venice Film Festival Is Belgium gay? Are there dinosaurs in heaven? Can a single plasticky taste of American cheese immediately make you understand why the US lost the Vietnam War? Come to Martin McDonagh’s funny, ethically slippery sundowner spy caper Wild Horse Nine for answers to these and many other questions you never thought to ask. Chief among them: do performances get much better than John Malkovich playing an aging CIA operative beset by terminal cancer and early-

  4. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · By Jessica Kiang

    Late Fame review: Bard truths (opens the original)

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    The last lines of ‘Famous’, by the Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, read “I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,/ or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,/ but because it never forgot what it could do.” At the outset of Kent Jones’s lovely, lambent Late Fame, Ed Saxberger (a perfect Willem Dafoe) seems to have forgotten what he could do – or at least, what he once did. For a moment in the 1970s, before spending 37 years working for the post office, Ed was

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