
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.
98%
80%
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 reported, Cover-Up is both a… View Full Synopsis
Directed By: Mark Obenhaus, Laura Poitras
98%
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Critics Consensus: Guided by Gianfranco Rosi’s eloquent directorial hand, Pompei: Below the Clouds captures life in a fragile, volcano-shadowed city with a deeply evocative, surprisingly hopeful cinematic mosaic.
Synopsis: From award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi comes Pompei: Below the Clouds, a striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius…. View Full Synopsis
Directed By: Gianfranco Rosi
97%
86%
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 grows increasingly desperate in his… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min
Directed By: Park Chan-wook, Miky Lee
96%
76%
Critics Consensus: Surveying the natural world and the people who wander through it with generous empathy, Silent Friend is one of writer-director Idikó Enyedi’s most lyrical and profound efforts yet.
Synopsis: In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth
Directed By: Ildikó Enyedi
93%
92%
Critics Consensus: Incorporating real-life elements that are as difficult to witness as they are impossible to forget, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a harrowing docudrama that makes a powerful appeal to humanity.
Synopsis: Volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society stay on the phone with a 6-year-old girl who gets trapped in a car in war-torn Gaza.
Starring: Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury, Amer Hlehel
Directed By: Kaouther Ben Hania
92%
52%
Critics Consensus: Weaving a hypnotic tapestry of bold analogue imagery, spellbinding storytelling, and mesmeric sound, Rose of Nevada reinforces Mark Jenkins as a uniquely singular directorial voice.
Synopsis: Three decades ago, the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. In a remote fishing village, its reappearance… View Full Synopsis
Starring: George MacKay, Callum Turner, Yana Penrose, Rosalind Eleazar
Directed By: Mark Jenkin
91%
79%
Critics Consensus: Cleverly contextualizing Albert Camus’ existentialist classic within a modern political lens, François Ozon’s The Stranger is as intriguing to mull over as it is beautiful to look at.
Synopsis: In French Algeria, Meursault drifts through life and love with mysterious detachment. When he stands accused of murdering an Arab man, indifference is his only… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Denis Lavant
Directed By: François Ozon
88%
82%
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. Toni Servillo — winner of… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti, Orlando Cinque, Massimo Venturiello
Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino
87%
77%
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 on destroying planet Earth.
Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias
Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos, Yoon Sang-hyun, Khan Kwon, Mark Byrne
85%
86%
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 a creature to life in… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz
Directed By: Guillermo del Toro
85%
63%
Critics Consensus: Illuminated by Amanda Seyfried’s sterling performance, The Testament of Ann Lee accepts The Shakers’ founder on her own terms and reaches its own rhapsodic highs as a result.
Synopsis: From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Stacy Martin
Directed By: Mona Fastvold
81%
47%
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 all concern the relationships between… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Sarah Greene
Directed By: Jim Jarmusch, Efe Cakarel, Jim Jarmusch, Alex C. Lo
79%
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Synopsis: He sacrificed himself for love, taking the blame for a crime she committed. Unable to repay him for the sacrifice he made, she leaves to… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Zhilei Xin, Songwen Zhang, Shaofeng Feng
Directed By: Shangjun Cai
75%
32%
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 begins to determine who is… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris
Directed By: Kathryn Bigelow, Brian Bell, Sarah Perlman Bremner
75%
59%
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 his devoted manager Ron (Adam… View Full Synopsis
Starring: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup
Directed By: Noah Baumbach, Donald Sabourin
73%
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Synopsis: In 1988, the smoke and dust covered the sky in Keelung Harbor. Lin Xiaoli grew up in confusion and longed to escape the darkness. Until… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Roy Chiu, 9m88, Xiao-Ying Bai, Esther Liu
Directed By: Shu Qi, Yeh Jufeng
71%
61%
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 — and nearly cost him… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Oleksandr Usyk
Directed By: Benny Safdie, Tracey Landon
70%
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Synopsis: After decades on stage, Eleonora Duse looks back on a legendary career that seems to have run its course. But in the savage days between… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fanni Wrochna, Noémie Merlant, Fausto Russo Alesi
Directed By: Pietro Marcello, Francesco Beltrame
65%
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Critics Consensus: Orphan overcomes some thin characterizations and uneven pacing to stand as a visually evocative, emotionally sincere postwar coming-of-age drama.
Synopsis: Hungary, 1957. A young Jewish boy, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his dead father, has his world turned upside down when a… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Bojtorján Barabas, Andrea Waskovics, Elíz Szabó, Grégory Gadebois
Directed By: László Nemes
55%
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Synopsis: A photographer at the peak of his career abandons his success to pursue writing, facing financial hardship and personal struggles as he chases his true… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Bastien Bouillon, André Marcon, Virginie Ledoyen, Adrien Barazzone
Directed By: Valérie Donzelli
44%
48%
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 reality TV producer, he becomes… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge
Directed By: Olivier Assayas
36%
32%
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 a star student (Ayo Edebiri)… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg
Directed By: Luca Guadagnino, Karen Lunder, Justin Wilkes, Alice Dawson
29%
39%
Critics Consensus: In the Hand of Dante is a bloated, wildly overplayed literary fever dream whose attempts to merge past and present collapse into accidental farce.
Synopsis: In the Hand of Dante follows the parallel lives of a New York author (Nick Tosches) in the 21st century who embarks on a violent… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich
Directed By: Julian Schnabel


