Berlin: In the "Angels Wear White" filmmaker's latest, Liu Haocun and Wen Qi star as estranged cousins who have taken different approaches to helping (and escaping) the pull of their toxic family.

In Vivian Qu's third feature, two estranged cousins confront old wounds after they are reunited under dangerous and dramatic circumstances. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic When Fang Di (Wen Qi) ...

Premiering in competition in Berlin before its Chinese release on International Women’s Day, Vivian Qu's latest has a solid story, but falls back on cheap tricks and broad stereotypes. The movie ...

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Lives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid Girls on Wire, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living in the margins that fuses gangster realism with social drama and ...

“Dead Man’s Wire” was already in production when Luigi Mangione fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. But you’d be forgiven for interpreting it as a reaction to those ...

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Gus Van Sant returns to the Venice Film Festival for the first time in more than 30 years with an out of competition entry Dead Man’s Wire, which literally looks ripped from the headlines. That is ...

Dead Man’s Wire (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Gus Van Sant, written by Austin Kolodney and starring Dacre Montgomery, Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Myha’la, John ...

After watching Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia and Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire within the span of a couple of days, it’s hard not to feel like there’s something in the air. Both films depict downtrodden ...

Venice: Bill Skarsgård stars as an aggrieved antihero who takes his mortgage broker hostage in a pleasingly punchy ‘70s throwback that struggles to maintain momentum. “Exploded” can be taken literally ...