"Brace yourself for disappointment," warns Todd Brown at Twitch. "As painful as it is to say, Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo the Bullet Man is far indeed from being the triumphant return to the
"A melodramatic account of the tempestuous final year of Leo Tolstoy's life, The Last Station is solid middlebrow biographical fare in which meaty roles are acted to the hilt by a cast
Dan Fainaru in Screen on Jacques Rivette's Around a Small Mountain (36 vues du Pic Saint Loup): "The latest from the French New Wave master, a short by his own standards, teams a desolate Jane
"That jaunty exclamation mark handily sets the tone for Steven Soderbergh's The Informant!, a flip, frisky entertainment that may well represent the year's most audacious feat of adaptation
"Very pretty people seen against beautiful landscapes provide most of the enjoyment in Chinese director Yonfan's glossy melodrama set in Taiwan in the 1950s when the hunt for communists on
"Claire Denis returns to Africa in White Material, a powerful recognition of the continent's tragic present that focuses on a white plantation owner desperate to hold on to her land, despite
"Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne," begins Stephen Farber in the Hollywood
Dave Kehr, who's serving on the Persol 3-D Award Jury in Venice, has posted a quick rundown of the highs and lows of the Competition so far and the first highlight he mentions is Accident
"Was Hugo Chávez really the anti-American force we've been told he is?" asks Oliver Stone in the Guardian. "Once we began our journey, we found ourselves going beyond Venezuela to several other
"At four days in," writes Shane Danielsen in an indieWIRE dispatch from Venice, "by far the strongest entry is Jessica Hausner's Lourdes, a sly, elliptical take on faith and redemption, set
"Patrice Chéreau," writes Guy Lodge at In Contention, "is one of the most intelligent and fluid of current French auteurs, capable of tackling lurid historical drama (Queen Margot) and downbeat erotic
"Michael Moore - who has made a fortune out of attacking America's obsession with guns, its health care system and the Iraq war - is not a man to hold his tongue and doff his cap," notes Arifa