Kyle Buchanan

If you wonder why it took 36 years for “Beetlejuice” to spawn a sequel, consider how complicated it was simply to reunite its busy principals for a video call last

After the actors’ strike muted the 2023 edition, this year’s event is being powered by stars like the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” actress and her castmates.

“Maria,” about the opera diva Maria Callas, plays to the star’s strengths. Its Venice Film Festival debut was timed so the actress could avoid Brad Pitt.

The star is taking chances again in this look at a woman reconciling her sexual fantasies. The movie was the talk of the Venice Film Festival.

At the Venice Film Festival, the star said he embraced the scenes with sexual encounters: ‘If I wasn’t in the movie and saw this movie, I’d want to be in it.’

At the Venice Film Festival with his co-star, Lady Gaga, would the actor answer questions about dropping out of a Todd Haynes movie?

The director’s first English-language feature inspires talk of beauty, hope and more collaborations.

“I bleed for movies,” Aubrey Plaza told me on an August morning, just seconds before the ground began to tremble.

Fresh off the big film festivals, our critics share their favorites.