Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe is a natural poet in a slice-of-life New York fable

A postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the present

Rose of Nevada review – uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur

A vanished trawler returns in Mark Jenkin’s time-slipping film, an enigmatic drama steeped in loss, memory and the unsettling rhythms of coastal life

No Other Choice review – sensational state-of-the-nation satire from Park Chan-wook

An unemployed paper worker hatches a cunning plan to murder his way back into the job market in this continually surprising black comedy from the director of The Handmaiden and Oldboy

After the Hunt review – Julia Roberts faces a dilemma in Guadagnino’s muddled campus accusation drama

Luca Guadagnino’s latest – also starring Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield – is clenched in its own sense of relevance, as a desire to find complexity in a scandal at Yale becomes a noncommittal jumble of ideas

At Work review – photographer ditches career for gig economy and writing in poverty drama

Though the film is eventful enough, there is a bland placidity with which Bastien Bouillon plays a man following his dreams in this quaintly naive drama

Julia Roberts says humanity ‘losing art of conversation’ in defence of new #MeToo-themed film

After the Hunt, directed by Luca Guadagnino, centres on an accusation of sexual assault at a university

Jay Kelly review – even a George Clooney sizzle reel can’t save this dire Noah Baumbach effort

The affable star plays an affable star assessing his life and career at a Tuscan film festival in a wildly sentimental and self-indulgent piece of cine-narcissism

Bugonia review – Emma Stone might be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre conspiracy theory comedy

Jesse Plemons delivers an efficient punch as the fanatical Teddy who abducts Stone’s dead-eyed corporate ice queen in Lanthimos’s Korean remake

Emma Stone declares belief in aliens during Bugonia film promo

Actor says she agrees with astronomer Carl Sagan that it is narcissistic to think there is no other life in universe

Orphan review – László Nemes’ fable of resentment and rage in post-uprising Hungary

This always interesting film-maker displays impressive technical control in this painful, sombre story about a boy who meets the father he never knew

Ghost Elephants review – Werner Herzog embarks on a mission to track down giant jumbos

In his inimitable fashion, Herzog follows a South African naturalist’s quest to discover a new species of elephant in Angola

La Grazia review – Paolo Sorrentino opens mighty window on Italian leader’s despair

The director has rediscovered his voice working again with actor Toni Servillo, who plays a president looking back on a career of empty rectitude

Activists hope to shift Venice film festival focus on to crisis in Gaza

Questions over biennale’s stance dominates launch, with protest planned for one of event’s big nights on Saturday

‘We are seeing a new maturity’: how ‘extended reality’ is coming of age at the Venice film festival

At the festival’s pioneering immersive section, a ‘seamless evolution’ of VR and mainstream film-making is revolutionising narrative

Mother review – Noomi Rapace is a fanatical Mother Teresa full of fury

Rapace plays the canonised Kolkata nun with hard-bitten intensity in a complex, lurid story that veers between faithful telling and bouts of fun