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Venice Film Festival 2022

From Adam Driver in Noah Baumbach’s post-Covid satire White Noise to the harrowing opioid documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, we review this year’s highlights

White Noise — Noah Baumbach reworks Don DeLillo as post-Covid satire
The Venice Film Festival opens with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in a black comedy about an ‘airborne toxic event’
Five stars for opioid epidemic documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras’s film is both a biography of artist Nan Goldin and an indictment of the Sackler family
The Banshees of Inisherin review — Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell star in buddy break-up film
Martin McDonagh’s blackly comic feature sets a fracturing friendship against Ireland’s tumultuous history
The Whale review — Brendan Fraser makes a splash in Darren Aronofsky’s obesity drama
Fraser shines, in a grotesquely large fat-suit, in the pitiless yet empathetic film
Venice Film Festival review — Bones and All shows sympathy for the diabolical
Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet star as cannibals on a road trip through America in Luca Guadagnino’s uncannily timed film
Venice Film Festival review — Bardo is a stream of consciousness from Alejandro G Iñárritu
This sprawling, deeply personal film tips into self-indulgence, though there are powerful moments

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Set in the rarefied world of classical music, the film follows a tightly wound conductor who dishes out plenty of stick