Rotten Tomatoes is continuing on with its 25th anniversary polls. This time they’ve asked their readers, not critics, to vote for the Best Director of The Last 25 Years and the results are not that surprising.

The embargo hasn’t lifted yet, but get prepared for some absolutely horrendous reviews for Polanski’s “The Palace” at Venice. Even fans of the Polish director are not liking this one. It sounds like a real stinker.

The reviews are in and they’re quite respectable. So far, it has a 7/10 rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 5 reviews logged in.

A new report from Variety claims that Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” might delay its November release date to 2024.

I’ve seen Ari Aster’s “Beau is Afraid” twice. I still firmly believe that its first two hours are filled with brilliance. The last hour … not so much. It eventually gets bogged down by Aster’s mad ambitions.

Harmony Korine’s “Aggro Dr1ft” has screened and it, supposedly, had a very high walkout rate. I’m even hearing of some boos occurring during the press screening. Consider me intrigued.

It seems as though GKids, the U.S. distributor for Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” will not be following the same no-marketing path as Studio Ghibli in Japan.

Nicolas Winding Refn (“Drive,” “Only God Forgives”) told a Venice audience at his masterclass that he is working on a new movie.

The review embargo won’t lift for another couple of hours, but here’s an early reaction I got from a top-tier journalist writing for a trade:

The below is a small excerpt from an interview that Woody Allen granted exclusively to Greek magazine “K” on the occasion of “Coup de Chance” premiering at Venice.

It turns out, the concert film, distributed by AMC, sold $26 million in ticket presales in less than three hours. It has beat the previous record of “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, which made $16.9 million back in late 2021.

Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” screened at Telluride last night. It’s getting praised left and right. We now have our contender to beat as THE movie of the fall festival season.

Much of the criticisms seem to be about how "it's been done before," and that it's not as iconoclastic as “Promising Young Woman”.

Anderson was asked about the recent controversy of Dahl’s books being edited, purified, if you will, by its publishing company for today’s more sensitive minds.

Jeff Nichols is back with “The Bikeriders”. He’s coming off what’s been the longest break of his filmmaking career — Nichols hasn’t directed a film since 2016’s “Loving.”

It’s not that surprising to read about all the hate-filled reviews that Luc Besson’s “Dogman” has been getting at Venice.

What exactly is Francis Ford Coppola cooking up? His upcoming “Megalopolis, rumored to premiere at Cannes 2024, is the latest film to land an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA.

The embargo has lifted and the reviews have been published. The consensus is that Mann has made a good, but flawed movie. Penélope Cruz keeps being cited as a major standout.

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