Category Archives: Variety

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Crossing $600 Million Domestically, Leads Box Office Over Dreary Labor Day Weekend
“Deadpool & Wolverine” notched a major box office milestone, surpassing $600 million in domestic ticket sales. It’s one of 16 films in history to reach that benchmark. The Marvel...
Rebecca Rubin Sep 01, 2024

Caleb Landry Jones on Venice Entry ‘Harvest,’ Auditioning for ‘Star Wars’ and How Luc Besson’s Upcoming ‘Dracula’ is a ‘Touching Story’ About ‘Love Being Ripped Away From You’
If anyone had a particularly surreal Venice in 2023, it was Caleb Landry Jones. Not only was the actor on the Lido for barely 24 hours - for the world premiere of Luc Besson's "DogMan" in which ...
Alex Ritman Sep 01, 2024

‘The Brutalist’ Review: Director Brady Corbet Breaks Through in His Third Feature, an Engrossing Epic Starring Adrien Brody as a Visionary Architect
It's three hours and 15 minutes long, it's paced with a pleasing stateliness and overflows with incident and emotion - and it spins out the story of Lszl Tth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian-born Jewish ar...
Owen Gleiberman Sep 01, 2024

George Clooney Says Biden Is ‘Most Selfless’ President Since George Washington for Dropping Out of Presidential Race Against Trump: ‘All the Credit Goes to Him’
George Clooney has commented for the first time on his New York Times op-ed asking Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. “I’ve actually never had to answer that question so I sup...
Ellise Shafer Sep 01, 2024

‘Peacock’ Review: A Zingy Austrian Comedy Follows a Friend-For-Hire In Desperate Need of a Real Connection
Considerate, cultured, polite, patient, a good listener, easy on the eye: Matthias is the kind of man almost anyone would be glad to have as company. In turn, he’s glad to be company to almost a...
Guy Lodge Sep 01, 2024

Brady Corbet Says Discourse Around Film Runtimes Is ‘Quite Silly’ as He Premieres 215-Minute ‘The Brutalist’: ‘We Should Be Past That, It’s 2024’
Brady Corbet, who is premiering his three-and-a-half hour historical drama “The Brutalist” at Venice Film Festival on Sunday, is shrugging off discourse around movie runtimes being too lon...
Ellise Shafer Sep 01, 2024

Richard Gere Talks Improvising ‘Pretty Woman’s’ ‘Sexy’ Piano Scene and Why His Character Was ‘Criminally Underwritten’: ‘It Was Basically a Suit and a Good Haircut’
Richard Gere feted his birthday with hyped-up fans at a masterclass hosted by Cartier at the Venice Film Festival and revealed some behind-the-scenes on the filming of his cult movie “Pretty Wom...
Elskes Sep 01, 2024

‘Boomerang’ Review: A Fresh, Leisurely Look at a Changing Tehran
Shahab Fotouhi’s debut feature “Boomerang” is a delightful, surprising portrait of modern Iran, but its biggest surprise is that Fotouhi is in his forties. His voice is the kind that...
Siddhant Adlakha Sep 01, 2024

‘Saturday Night’ Review: Jason Reitman Finds the Right Ensemble to Capture the Lunacy from Which ‘SNL’ Was Born
Over nearly 1,000 episodes, "Saturday Night Live" has given America some of its most successful comedians, iconic characters and quotable catchphrases. Now, just one year shy of the pop phenom's 50th ...
Peter Debruge Sep 01, 2024
Ghosts of German Past From Leni Riefenstahl to the Munich Olympics Unspool at Venice Festival
Andres Veiel’s documentary "Riefenstahl," which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany's most controversial directors, is one of 17 German films playing in the various...
Carolehorst Sep 01, 2024