Venice Film Festival awards 2018: read our reviews of the winning films

Roma first look: the film of Alfonso Cuarón’s career

A turbulent year in Mexico City is seen through the eyes of a young woman and the family she works for, in this very personal film that reframes the director’s own childhood memories, writes Beth Webb.
Friday 31 August 2018

The Nightingale first look: a bloody song of freedom from Australia’s colonial violators

Jennifer Kent’s furious follow-up to The Babadook lays bare her country’s original sins, with an Irish convict settler and Tasmanian guide finding common cause in flight from their monstrous British oppressors, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
Monday 10 September 2018

The Sisters Brothers first look: Jacques Audiard takes a delightful detour from the western trail

Jacques Audiard’s take on the deathless genre is a mournfully comic yarn that builds at its own loose pace to a surprisingly profound conclusion, writes Jessica Kiang.
Tuesday 4 September 2018

The Favourite first look: Yorgos Lanthimos courts controversy but cops out

Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone play pointless power games in Yorgos Lanthimos’s baroque and profane regal romp that runs out of steam far too soon, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Friday 31 August 2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs first look: a six-pack of western rambles by way of the Coen brothers

Joel and Ethan Coen explore how the west was spun in an eclectic portmanteau that covers the American cinema’s foundational genre territory with gimlet-eyed glee, says Michael Leader.
Monday 3 September 2018