(Photo by Peter Mountain / Netflix / courtesy Everett Collection. JAY KELLY.)
Venice Film Festival 2025: Movie Scorecard
See the Tomatometer scores for all the movies that screened at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival! Awards Editor Jacqueline Coley previously talked about the 8 must-watch movies at the fest, and now we’re ranking all the titles with TM scores, including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, which currently holds an 84%. Critics say there’s “a poeticism to [the film] that can be appreciated in many individual sections,” and “it should be a slam-dunk Oscar nomination for Clooney.”
Also on the list is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. According to critics, the film “drips with style and emotional depth and benefits from a brilliant Jacob Elordi performance.”
But it’s Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice that’s winning over critics, who are praising the film as a masterful work of cinema and saying it’s “the best film in the Venice competition so far.”
Journey through the canals of cinema and explore the scorecard below. Be sure to also visit our Venice Film Festival 2025 gallery to see the stars hit the red carpet in Italy.
Critics Consensus: Directed with pristine precision by Park Chan-wook, No Other Choice is a wickedly clever takedown of the corporate rat race that finds a perfect avatar in Lee Byung-Hun's skillfully hapless performance.
Synopsis: When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he [More]
Synopsis: Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear.
The [More]
Critics Consensus:Father Mother Sister Brother is a subtly haunting, wryly funny, and visually poised triptych that transforms the banal awkwardness of family life into a bittersweet meditation on the bonds that persist.
Synopsis: FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories [More]
Critics Consensus:Cover-Up shines a light on Seymour Hersh's remarkable career and the pugnacious commitment it required, making for an absorbing and instructive treatise on journalistic responsibility.
Synopsis: Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply [More]
Critics Consensus: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are at the top of their game in Bugonia, a bonkers entertainment that applies director Yorgos Lanthimos' whip-smart method to modern society's madness.
Synopsis: Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent [More]
Critics Consensus: Playing out a nightmare scenario with nerve-wracking plausibility, Kathryn Bigelow's masterfully-constructed A House of Dynamite is an urgent thriller that's as distressing as it is riveting.
Synopsis: From Academy Award® winning director Kathryn Bigelow. When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race [More]
Critics Consensus: Dwayne Johnson goes the distance with his transformative turn as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine, a gritty biopic that sidesteps cliché even at the expense of narrative satisfaction while still landing the dramatic body blows that count.
Synopsis: The true story of mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, whose obsession with greatness made him a legend [More]
Critics Consensus: George Clooney riffs on his star persona with disarming vulnerability while Adam Sandler impressively expands his dramatic range in Jay Kelly, a Hollywood satire that's gentler than one might expect from director Noah Baumbach.
Synopsis: JAY KELLY, the new film from Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach, follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) and [More]
Critics Consensus: Finding the humanity in one of cinema's most iconic monsters, Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein is a lavish epic that gets its most invigorating volts from Jacob Elordi's standout performance.
Synopsis: Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings [More]
Critics Consensus: Celebrating the virtues of fortitude and patience, La Grazia is an atypically restrained effort from writer-director Paolo Sorrentino that reunites him with the dependably majestic Toni Servillo.
Synopsis: From Academy and BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, LA GRAZIA is a sweeping exploration of love, duty, and personal freedom. [More]
Critics Consensus:After the Hunt doesn't lack for fine performances, especially from a standout Julia Roberts, but its coy followthrough on incendiary themes makes for an uncharacteristically toothless provocation from director Luca Guadagnino.
Synopsis: A gripping psychological drama about a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when [More]
Critics Consensus: A dryly witty yet overwrought slow burner, The Wizard of the Kremlin can't overcome its thin characters, sluggish pacing, and repetitive storytelling.
Synopsis: Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a [More]
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