If you have fond memories of 1994's goth fantasy THE CROW, or feel strongly about the tragic loss of its young star, Brandon Lee, then chances are you'll have strong feelings of a different kind about this "reimagining" with Bill Skarsgård. My The Hollywood Reporter review hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

Heading to #VeniceFilmFestival, a favorite I’ve been covering on and off since the early 90s. Check back for reviews from the The Hollywood Reporter crew starting Wednesday

For The Hollywood Reporter, a handful of #VeniceFilmFestival premieres on my must-see list hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

Love this David Byrne poster design for New York Film Festival

Call me jaded, but too much punishing, decades-late sequel-itis left me unprepared for what a total blast I'd have at BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, Tim Burton's best — and funniest — film in years. My The Hollywood Reporter review of the #VeniceFilmFestival opener hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

#BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice Review: "It’s rewarding to have Tim Burton back in full creative command of the humor, the fantastical imagination and the gleeful morbidity on which he built his name" More: thr.cm/9xdvvit

Film Review: "Pablo Larraín’s film (#Maria) becomes retroactively more affecting when the lovely archival images of Callas over the end credits, full of vitality at the peak of her career, widen the perspective on her sad, accelerated decline" thr.cm/vXWIQR2

Loved JACKIE and SPENCER, but found part three of Pablo Larraín's trilogy about famous women in crisis, MARIA, a tad distancing, though it's beautifully crafted and an impressive showcase for Angelina Jolie. My The Hollywood Reporter review from #VeniceFilmFestival hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson light a fire in Halina Reijn’s tense, sexy and caustically funny BABYGIRL, about the merits of kink as self-help therapy. My The Hollywood Reporter review from the #VeniceFilmFestival hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

#VeniceFilmFestival: I find myself taking a quick photo of this fairly nondescript canal on the Lido every year on my way to dinner because you glance to the left and suddenly it’s like you’re looking at a painting. And never the same one

Knocked out by Brady Corbet’s THE BRUTALIST, an emotionally charged depiction of immigrant experience led by a never-better Adrien Brody, with a stunner of a supporting role for Guy Pearce. My The Hollywood Reporter review from #VeniceFilmFestival hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

Walter Salles’ first film in Brazil in 16 years, the shattering I’M STILL HERE, is a profoundly moving drama about a family reeling from tragedy at the height of the dictatorship, led by the superb Fernanda Torres. My The Hollywood Reporter review from #VeniceFilmFestival hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

Neo Sora, who directed last year's gorgeous doc tribute to his late father, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS, makes a captivating narrative debut with HAPPYEND, a near-future political allegory set in a Tokyo high school. My The Hollywood Reporter review from #VeniceFilmFestival hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

Tilda Swinton & Julianne Moore lift up Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English, THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, which gets off to an uncertain start in NYC but becomes steadily more affecting with a change of location. My The Hollywood Reporter review from #VeniceFilmFestival hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

Another #VeniceFilmFestival highlight, QUEER is primo Luca Guadagnino and just the hit of smoldering sensuality with a trippy ayahuasca chaser I needed. Daniel Craig is astonishingly good in a haunting performance both sexy and sad. My The Hollywood Reporter review hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

#Queer Review: "[Luca] Guadagnino paints an evocative picture of ex-pat ennui in post-World War II Mexico City, establishing the foundations of a love story grounded in realism before shifting into fantasy as the narrative becomes a drug-addled mosaic" thr.cm/K11l7ve

Brothers Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s melancholy fondness for their setting in the French provinces brings heart and cinematic sweep to the turbulent 1990s coming-of-age drama AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM. My The Hollywood Reporter review from #VeniceFilmFestival hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

Always a wrenching separation leaving beautiful Venezia. One last #VeniceFilmFestival review coming tonight. Headed to #TIFF24 to start on another batch tomorrow. Pray for me

Making the supervillain sequel a musical is JOKER: FOLIE à DEUX ‘s best idea; it’s just not taken far enough. Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga’s splashy production numbers are electric, but the film cries out for more of them. My The Hollywood Reporter review from #Venice2024 hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

David Gordon Green builds a movie around an old friend's four spirited young sons, teaming them with Ben Stiller in the sweet if slender fish-out-of-water comedy NUTCRACKERS, which opens #TIFF24. My The Hollywood Reporter review hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…