The Venice Film Festival wraps today after putting on a show against the odds?

We’ve done a wide sweep of the English-language reviews and here’s our run-down of the best-received world premieres.

The film garnered multiple five star write-ups.

King also made history as the first African American female director with a film at the festival.

The Brit actress garnered strong notices for her performances in competition dramas Pieces Of A Woman and Mona Fastvold’s The World To Come, which itself came in for effusive praise.

The movie follows a Syrian man who flees the war, hoping to eventually join his lover in Paris?

Maverick Russian auteur Andrei Konchalovsky garnered very positive reaction to latest feature Dear Comrades.

Timely German drama And Tomorrow The Entire World was another well-reviewed movie from the festival, asking the question: how far one is willing to go for the sake of one’s political commitment.

The intimate and revelatory film charts a 1970 conversation between Dennis Hopper, then riding high on the success of Easy Rider, and film world icon Orson Welles.

The Furnace, whose director Roderick MacKay had one of the longest journeys to get to the festival, impressed multiple reviewers with its story of a Muslim camel driver during the Western Australia 1890s Gold Rush.

Prolific Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa was on the Lido with Wife Of A Spy, which garnered solid write ups!

The film follows a merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism which sets of a dangerous chain reaction. Meanwhile, in terms of buzz, Gia Coppola’s social media satire Mainstream with Andrew Garfield and Maya Hawke was probably the hardest movie to get into on the Lido, but reviews were mixed.