Another Venice Film Festival is wrapping up, where I’ve been reporting from as a critic, and this year’s edition has been jam-packed with bold movies.

After a somewhat lacklustre edition of Cannes in May, Venice has outclassed it this year with exciting titles that have delivered including Frankenstein, Bugonia, A House of Dynamite and The Smashing Machine.

It’s also still breaking records in its 82nd edition, with devastating Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Rajab a receiving a history-making 23-minute ovation.

Below I’ve complied a list of some of the films I saw, including best, worst and everything in between.

(Sadly this doesn’t include The Voice of Hind Rajab, as when working a film festival you can’t always work around the screening schedules to see everything you wanted – at least

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