Jessica Kiang

Italian director Maura Delpero's "Maternal" follow-up is an intimate epic of miraculous rigor and restraint, set in a remote WWII-era mountain community.

Sister directors Delphine and Muriel Coulin make competent if rather glum work of adapting a French novel about a loving father's helplessness when faced with his son's right-wing radicalization.

"Sicilian Ghost Story" directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza diminish the returns on their third feature, a talky cat-and-mouser inspired by the search for real-life mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro.

'90s adult-entertainment impresario Riccardo Schicchi is the genial subject of this willfully rose-tinted hagiography from director Giulia Louise Steigerwalt

Despite often superb, old-school western technique, the second 3-hour-plus installment of Costner's passion project is just as unwieldy and bewilderingly scattershot as the first.

The Venice Film Festival draws to a close this evening with its glamorous awards gala, and though the feeling on the ground was that the 21-title-strong

Samantha Morton stars as a brooding survivor of a near-future global catastrophe, who must deliver to us the urgent message that we're already screwed.

Of more than 200 new movies that premiered over the past few weeks, Variety's critics pick the top 19 seen at the Venice, Telluride and Toronto fests.

In a vast, heaving Mumbai that bustles by day and glimmers by night, two nurses — roommates by chance — form a makeshift sisterhood. Proper, practical Prabha grieves her estranged marriage but holds her teeming desires (and an eager suitor) at bay; youthful, sensuous Anu cherishes secret text messages and steamy trysts with a Muslim boy. Meanwhile, a no-nonsense neighbor whose widowhood leaves her struggling to keep her flat recruits the two younger women to her village by the sea — where all three find unlikely refuge in the clarity of shared wanting, if not having.

Two next-generation teenagers face a parting of the ways as they respond differently to the increasing authoritarianism of their Tokyo high school in Neo Sora's touching yet impressively restrained narrative debut.