Venice Crowns ‘Woman Unknown’
May El-Toukhy takes the Golden Lion as class, power and inequality dominate the festival
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Luca Guadagnino
Is Timothée Chalamet the Last True Movie Star?
The lead in ‘Marty Supreme’ is the latest in an idiosyncratic, but successful set of roles
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‘After the Hunt’ Is Too Smart to Be This Dumb
Luca Guadagnino’s campus melodrama throws Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri into a #MeToo morality play with Hegel and Freud references
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The Best Movies of 2024
Our critics know all
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BFG Podcast #177: ‘Dune: Prophecy’ and ‘Queer’
Neal Pollack, Scott Gold, and Stephen Garrett offer their expertise and wit on the cultural subjects that matter most
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Don’t Look Away from ‘Queer’
Daniel Craig radiates in Luca Guadagnino’s uniquely expressive William S. Burroughs adaptation
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Sex Sells at This Year’s TIFF
Rawdogging it in Toronto with Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, and Pamela Anderson
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BFG Podcast #149
‘Challengers,’ writers intimidate PEN America, and a new memoir from Salman Rushdie
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Venice Biennale 2023: The Show Goes On
A film festival, mostly without stars
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One of These Top Ten Films Lists Is Not Like The Others
“Sophisticated” or not, our critic chooses the movies that brought her joy this year
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Fine Young Cannibals
‘Bones and All,’ a swoony ode to young love–and to eating people
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BFG Podcast #071: ‘The Rings of Power,’ the Venice Film Festival, and Review-Bombing
Our editor and writers break down the culture
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Lights, Camera, Lido!
A report from the Venice Biennale
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