The Venice Film Festival kicks off later this week, and we will once again be graced with the best of what the famed Italian festival has selected. One of the top films of last year, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist , a haunting story about an architect and Holocaust survivor, earned three Oscars, including a Best Actor win for star Adrien Brody. Additionally, the long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was one of the busiest entries, and it “made good” not just on its Certified Fresh bona fides but also in box office success.

Venice Premieres Babygirl and I’m Still Here also found relative success with audiences and with critics, and though we are still salty about Nicole Kidman’s tragic Oscar Snub, thankfully Fernanda Torres did earn a nom. It’s anyone’s guess if this year’s bat

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