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Venice Film Festival 2023 reviews

From Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic to a surreal Frankenstein mash-up courtesy of Yorgos Lanthimos, we bring you the best of the festival

© FilmMagic | Adam Driver at the Venice Film Festival

Directors’ starring role in Venice leads to triumph and travesty
Reviews of new films by Sofia Coppola, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and William Friedkin
The Killer and Hit Man go head to head at Venice Film Festival
Michael Fassbender plays it cool in David Fincher’s latest while Glen Powell lays on the charm in Richard Linklater’s comedy
Five stars for Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things — Emma Stone burns up the screen
A surreal mash-up of Frankenstein and Pygmalion is unlike any other movie being made today
El Conde film review — Pinochet and Thatcher reborn as vampires in blood-soaked satire
Pablo Larraín’s skewering of a monstrous figure isn’t quite a stake through the heart
Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro is a rousing rhapsody — Venice Film Festival review
Bradley Cooper directs and stars in this passion project about the complex, brilliant conductor
Venice Film Festival gets into gear with Ferrari and Dogman even as stars stay away
Luc Besson offers an outré mash-up of ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Lassie’ but the actors’ strike dampens the mood