Last year, “Emancipation” drowned with critics and barely registered with audiences. It finished with a 53 on Metacritic and 46% on Rotten Tomatoes. DOA.

Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde” is dividing critics at Venice. The mixed (and semi-positive) reviews come to us from IndieWire, The Guardian, Screen Daily, Little White Lies, and Variety.

The Jury Prize winner (third place) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was attributed to Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” a wonderfully realized love story told via the Finnish filmmaker’s immaculately deadpan style.

In an interview with Deadline, Pablo Larraín confirms that he’s in prep mode with his Maria Callas biopic starring Angelina Jolie. He adds that production will not be disrupted at all by the strikes:

What’s with all of these studio filmmakers wanting to release lengthy cuts of their past films? After Zack Snyder and David Ayer, this week sees another director touting his own cut.

Gary Oldman is in the cast of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s as yet untitled new film. Whether it’s a large or supporting role remains to be seen.

This past March, Garrel won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. His film “The Plough” was critically-acclaimed — so were his last few films which include “Jealousy,” “In the Shadows of Women” and “The Salt of Tears.”

Now that the cat’s out of the bag … A few weeks ago, I had spoken to to Telluride boss Julie Huntsinger about George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin,” but in particular Colman Domingo’s work in the film.

A gorgeous teaser for Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” has been unveiled. Cinematographer Linus Sandgren shot the film in unique 1.33:1 aspect ratio and the photography here is quite beautiful to look at.

If you’ve followed my spitballing of the Telluride Film Festival then not many of the titles, in the just-announced lineup, come as a surprise.

You don’t mess with greatness. You just don’t. Gus Van Sant learned that the hard way with his 1998 remake of Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”

The reviews are out for Antonie Fuqua’s “The Equalizer 3,” the project marking Denzel Washington’s final outing as Robert McCall.

Here is the nearly dialogue-free trailer for Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.” There’s some great tension buildup here.

Directed by Nia DaCosta, “The Marvels” will see the return of Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, who fans last saw in “Avengers: Endgame.”

It’s all about managing expectations with this one, which has little in common with the tensely dry humor of “Shiva Baby”.

Apple has announced that Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” will no longer have a limited release on October 6th and will instead be release worldwide on October 20th.

A trailer for “Saltburn” will be released tomorrow, but before that happens we have a Vanity Fair exclusive with our first images of Fennell’s highly anticipated film.

The film will have a limited theatrical release on October 27th and will be available to stream via Netflix on November 10th.