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The 2022 awards and festival season kicks off with the Venice Film Festival, which this year celebrates its 79th edition with Julianne Moore as Jury President. Venice 2022 opened with Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. Beyond the red carpet, festival highlights include inescapable tabloid fodder Don’t Worry, Darling, the latest black comedy from Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), and Blonde, the NC-17 Marilyn Monroe drama starring Ana de Armas. Call Me By Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino reunites with Timothee Chalamet in Bones and All, director Todd Field returns after 16 years with Tár with Cate Blanchett, and Darren Aronofsky’s Brendan Fraser got a standing ovation in The Whale.
Below we collect every title at the festival that receives enough reviews for the Tomatometer score, up until the final night on September 10th. – Alex Vo
#1
Adjusted Score: 100712%
Critics’ consensus: Led by the soaring melody of Cate Blanchett’s perfect performance, Tár smashes brilliant riffs on the dissonant side of fame-fueled power.
Synopsis: The life of acclaimed musician and composer Lydia Tár as she records the symphony that will propel her impressive career… [More]
#2
Adjusted Score: 100475%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN follows lifelong friends Pádraic and… [More]
#3
Adjusted Score: 41220%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Rachel is 40 years old and has no children. She loves her life: her high school students, her friends, her ex,… [More]
#4
Adjusted Score: 53027%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Rare footage and intimate interviews provide insight into the life and work of renowned photographer and activist Nan Goldin…. [More]
#5
Adjusted Score: 35004%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
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#6
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Argentina, 1985 is a feature film inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo and their young lawyer. [More]
#7
Adjusted Score: 98251%
Critics agree: “Living” sets the bar high by reimagining a Kurosawa classic – and director Oliver Hermanus and star Bill Nighy triumphantly set the bar.
Synopsis: An English language adaptation of the screenplay of “Ikiru” (1952), set in 1950s London…. [More]
#8th
Adjusted Score: 52508%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Leo and Sophia Tolstoy were married for 36 years and had 13 children. Everyone kept a diary. A PAIR is Sophia’s… [More]
#9
Adjusted Score: 89652%
Critics’ consensus: While its subject matter may be hard to stomach, Bones and All proves to be a deeply romantic and thought-provoking tidbit.
Synopsis: A first love story between Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning how to live on the fringes of… [More]
#10
Adjusted Score: 87887%
Critics’ Consensus: White Noise may occasionally struggle with its supposedly unfilmable source material, but Noah Baumbach manages to find the humorous core of its surprisingly timely story.
Synopsis: Simultaneously hilarious and frightening, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to… [More]
#11
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics’ consensus: Held together by hitman Brendan Fraser, The Whale sings a song of empathy that will leave most viewers pondering.
Synopsis: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance… [More]
#12
Adjusted Score: 29326%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
#13
Adjusted Score: 58780%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X in this amazing sequel to this year’s… [More]
#14
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An artist and her elderly mother are confronted with long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home that is now a hotel… [More]
#fifteen
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Monica is an intimate portrait of a woman returning home to the… [More]
#16
Adjusted Score: 29345%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Taeko and her husband Jiro lead a peaceful existence with their young son Keita when a tragic accident… [More]
#17
Adjusted Score: 58217%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in mysterious circumstances, the lives of three siblings are thrown into chaos… [More]
#18
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
#19
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics’ Consensus: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths is as deeply personal as it is sophisticated, teetering precariously on the border between brilliance and sheer licentiousness.
Synopsis: A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker returns home and works his way through an existential crisis while dealing with his… [More]
#20
Adjusted Score: 17244%
Critics consensus: No consensus yet.
#21
Adjusted Score: 43065%
Critics agree: Despite an intriguing array of talent on both sides of the camera, Don’t Worry Darling is a largely convoluted rehash of all-too-familiar themes.
Synopsis: Alice and Jack are lucky enough to live in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town where the… [More]