Movies

Venice Film Festival Special 2025

On Truth & Movies this week, we come to you live from the city that gave us Don’t Look Now and…

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Islands review – if Challengers were a European…

There’s a man face down in the sand, unmoving. Nothing but vast golden sand dunes and endless blue sky surrounds him.…

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The Christophers – first-look review

The aging painter Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) of Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers is introduced recording cameos, donning a beret for the occasion…

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The Fence – first-look review

A period piece inspired by her own childhood as the daughter of a French colonial official in Africa, Claire Denis’s first…

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Maddie’s Secret – first-look review

A film about a bulimic with the surname ​“Ralph,” starring cis male writer-director John Early as the cis female title character,…

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Hamlet – first-look review | Little White Lies

There are shades of Succession in Aneil Karia’s Hamlet: a stylish, uneven adaptation that takes pleasure in entropy and extremity. Set at the estate of a wealthy…

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Sacrifice – first-look review | Little White Lies

At a Davos-like gathering inside a cavernous marble mine, global elites in dinner dress enjoy a tweezer-precise amuse-bouche and a performance of Cerrone’s all-time…

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Christy – first-look review | Little White Lies

When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was…

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Below The Clouds – first-look review

If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak,…

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Silent Friend – first-look review

It’s a truism to point out that trees, plants, rivers and all flora and fauna contain as much lifeforce as any…

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